We all read books at our own rates, and some of us read at some high volumes that makes some of us gape in awe. However, it can be hard to keep track of what you’ve read, so whether you just want to know how much you read in a year, or are a real nerd for your reading stats (like me), here’s a nifty list of a few ways you can keep track of your reading!
1. An Old Favourite: Goodreads
Goodreads has a yearly challenge, which is pretty handy if you want to record how many books you have read in a year! There’s no minimum number of books, nor a maximum, so you can tailor it towards what you want to achieve. It even tells you how many books ahead or behind on your goal you are, if you need to see where you are at throughout the year.
2. A Bookstagram Favourite: Monthly View Page Trackers
I’ve seen a lot of these pop up on bookstagram, and often with super pretty backgrounds! It focuses on the amount of pages read each day, rather than how many books. This method is perfect for those who want to share their reading daily/weekly/over the month over social media, or for those who just want to see how many pages they read instead of the amount of books they read.
3. Something Different: Weekly Reading Blog or Vlog Posts
If you’re time poor and can’t update each day (or you’re too afraid to admit that you have read a bunch of books in one day and none in another day), or you don’t want to spam your friends on bookstagram, you could sum up your week’s worth of reading in a blog or vlog! One way you could structure this is the books you finished in that week, books you’ve started in that week, and then page stats (such as pages read and the average amount of pages per day). Another is just wrap up your week’s worth of reading.
4. For The Journal Fanatics: A Book Journal
Whether you make an entire bullet journal or just have a plain old diary dedicated to writing down the books or pages you’ve read in your day, this one’s for you! Ideas for journals include the amount of pages read in the month-at-a-glance pages, writing down the books you’ve read in the day-to-day views, and even making a colouring in page for your TBR you’ve been planning to read. You can even write down your monthly reading goals or to-be-reads for the month/year/week, if you’re that way inclined.
5. For The True Stats Nerds: An Excel Sheet
This is a great way to make cool (and maybe super interesting or pretty) graphs and stats about your reading, entering each book or amount of pages read as you go. Ideas for graphs could include genres read, average pages per book, and average ratings. You could even customise it to have daily, weekly, monthly stats, or even yearly. The possibilities are endless: no two excel trackers are the same, and making your own is something satisfying, trust me!
6. The Tried and True: A To-Read List!
If you just want to write a short to-read list of books you want to read in the short (or long) term, go for it! This one can be combined into a lot of the other suggestions here, or standalone. It can also be written and stuck in a place to remind you of what books are next on your TBR pile (which is probably never-ending, if you’re like me!). Also, who doesn’t like the satisfying feel of checking something of a to-do list?!
These are only a few ideas to track your reading, and there are definitely more super creative ways out there! However you like tracking your reading, and no matter how much you read, reading is amazing, it can transport you to many places!
