New Start

Eeek and apologies! Nearly a year has gone by since my last post... confession over, my reading (for pleasure) year has been restricted by my study and work commitments but I've still managed to accrue quite a wide variety of books to share. However I have a problem. Unless a book is particularly memorable/ enjoyable or I've just finished it, I don't necessarily remember who wrote it or it's title. For someone who reads widely and in significant quantities this is obviously a frustration. So earlier this year I resolved to start a reading diary. This was initially a simple notebook but I've never been good at keeping diaries or journals, and blogs.... sigh. I start with a flurry of activity for a few weeks then other interests will take over. For me, recording the fact I've read the last book becomes far less important that moving on to the next one.

Which brings me to a new social media site called Riffle. This is a Pinterest-like site for books with each title displaying a cover. Unfortunately being a U.S creation there are only American editions but for this book jacket nerd there is great pleasure in making visual the lists of  books I've read.
You can search for the books you've read by author and title, create 'lists' of books, and make recommendations to other Rifflers by rating books with stars. Experts on a particular genre or subject  can create lists to which other readers can subscribe. Notes can be added to books you've read and a wish list of books you have yet to read can be maintained. Very useful as an aide-memoire to ensure you get the next book in a series as soon as it's available.

For someone like me this is a good way of making lists. It's online, so I can access it at work and on my mobile. I don't have to remember to carry the notebook around with me, I can add to any list as and when I have the time. As a form of procrastination it is delightfully limited, after all you have the fun spending a productive few minutes adding to your lists and then you're done, break over and back to work!
If you're thinking of joining up you can find me under LPRob :)

Happy reading all!