Jeepers creepers y’all had a lot to say about how you keep track of books, ha. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that talking about spreadsheets in an NPR Books newsletter would bring out the masses. A lot of you are using different apps or platforms to track the books you (and your friends!) are reading – Bookworm, Storygraph, BookBuddy, Bookmory, and more. Stacey S. says about Storygraph, “I appreciate all of the stats it gives me since it has helped me get to know myself as a reader.” My fellow spreadsheet keepers wrote in with their strategies and techniques to keep the info organized. But a big shout out to D. who has us all beat: My book-tracking spreadsheet is actually 24 sheets in an Excel workbook. The number of sheets changes over time, but they fall into these general categories: (1) completed books, (2) current year plan, (3) next year possibilities, (4) one tab/sheet for every major To-Read folder I have in Goodreads, (5) annual goals, (6) projections for year-end and lifetime book numbers, and (7) formula/system maintenance. Each book has 30 data points, one of which is my custom formula to tell me whether the book will likely be a 4- or 5-star book, or whether it's a Watch List or Nope D., I salute you. Many of you simply keep spiral notebooks or binders full of index cards noting all the books you’ve read. And this really emphasizes how personal this all is, eh? These lists keep us grounded through all sorts of life events: births, deaths, illnesses, failures, successes, and everything else. As Sarah L. writes, “still reading, still writing.” Until next week! | 
