QUESTION POST for Tracking my books i've read in a creative way. Need help!
Howdy y'all!
I love reading books a lot. But I noticed how theres some ways of keeping track of what you read/finished reading.
Some do it by
- Having a journal to keep track of it
- Some do it by checking them off a Reading List based on Book, Author, Date, and rate it from 1-5 stars.
- Some color in a printed out bookshelf showing spines of the book.
I originally thought about my own way, my own idea. It involved having a jar and writing on index cards of the book info and put them in said jar as a way to show visually and by info on how many and what books I read. But I was curious about something...
Has anyone thought of tracking them by having mini 3D blank books that they could write on the front or/and spines of?
Like you could write on and erase it with a pencil/whiteboard marker, put it in a jar/mini shelf to show you read it, and have at least 50+ of them to do this.
I thought about it, considered it a fun and creative way to track how many books you have read visually and by names. Let alone it's also reusable for as much as you want, so you never have to buy a new journal or anything to track it.
My issue is that I cant find something like this where its mini books that are blank that you can write on with anything and erase it easily.
I did see the mini books for the "anxiety bookshelf" fidget thing (IDK, that thing gives me more stress just seeing it), went into a little scavenger hunt for an hour or so to see if I could find anything like my idea. The Anxiety Bookshelf fidget thing does have book only options where you could get mini books... but I noticed it either were of books I wont read, were spicy books (I dont read those - I prefer ones with plots that can get by without sexual things), didn't have enough choices, or straight up didn't have the same cover as the books I have (I like to keep it as close to it as possible). So I went deeper into the research just to find some actual mini blank/white books. I thought about using those but I wasn't sure if its writable and erasable.
Annoyingly enough, I found some things but they had clear signs of either it or the ad using ai. My rule, ever since ai came out, i've ended up living by the "If theres signs of ai at all on the product or ad involving it, I dont buy it" thing. So I wanted to see if fellow book lovers thought of my idea, have thoughts on how to do the "visual with names" tracker idea I had, etc!