Romance Audiobooks discussion

Just curious how you all organize what you’ve read and what you want to read. I do use goodreads to categorize my subjects but it gets overwhelming with so many authors, series, what I’ve read In Each series and what’s next in the series. I created a word document but it’s now multiple pages with so many headings: must read authors, good narrators, bad narrators, completed series and so on. And I forget where I’m at sometimes.

Any tips... or apps that can help with this.
Thanks

Tina T wrote: "Just curious how you all organize what you’ve read and what you want to read. I do use goodreads to categorize my subjects but it gets overwhelming with so many authors, series, what I’ve read In E..."

Hi Tina, I use a member's corner where I organize my planned books to read/listen, buddy reads, challenges, etc from the other group that I'm a part of. In this group, there's a personal challenge folder where you track all your reads, etc. It's manual organization though. I'm pretty sure there's an app or a software for that but I haven't tried it yet.

Here is my corner and personal challenge folder if you want to check it out :)

Alyana's World of Audiobooks 2021
Alyana Pearl’s 2021 Personal Challenge Log - Romance Audiobooks Group

Here's a long explanation of how I go about it. :)

I organize my shelves with 8 exclusive shelves - this means that books can only be in ONE of these 8. This includes the exclusive shelves set by GR.
- Read & Currently Reading: Self explanatory.
- Want to Read: Books I want to read that are in my possession because I own them or got them from the library. I could pick up any book in this list at any moment and have them available to be read.
- DNF: Books I didn't finish and have no desire to pick back up again.
- Get from library: books that I want to read which are available in my library.
- Later in series: book I own in a series I'm reading, but I'm not up to that yet (don't add it in the 'want to read' because I need to read the book(s) before to catch up.)
- May finish later: book I started to read, stopped but want to finish at some point
- Wishlist: book hasn't been released or need to buy it (not available at my library.)

For series, I also have 4 non-exclusive shelves:
- first in series: I haven't read but I'm planning to. This is removed once I read the book.
- next in series: next book in a series I'm reading which I'm planning to continue. Once I read book 3, I remove it and add book 4 (if I'm planning to continue the series.) That way I know which book I'm up to all my current series.
- will not continue series: permanent tag I use when I decide to stop reading a series.
- read out of order: permanent tag when I read a series out of order.

I have several dozen non exclusive shelves depending on genres, tropes, format, narrators, etc.

Tina, I created a private group here on Goodreads for my personal reading management. The shelves are one way to categorize your books but I needed a planning tool to organize my ARCs, upcoming library reads, group reads and other reading priorities. If you’d like to take a look, here’s the link and I’ll have to approve you to join so you can check it out, if you’re interested.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Jonetta wrote: "Tina, I created a private group here on Goodreads for my personal reading management. The shelves are one way to categorize your books but I needed a planning tool to organize my ARCs, upcoming lib..."

Thank you! I would love a quick look. I also created my own private group just to start creating lists of books I want to read. DOne by author, series ad type of romance. But I think there may be a better way to do it. Hoping to get a look. and kick me out once i do. LOL I appreciate it.

I’ll wait for your request!

Jonetta wrote: "Tina, I created a private group here on Goodreads for my personal reading management. The shelves are one way to categorize your books but I needed a planning tool to organize my ARCs, upcoming lib..."

I hope you don't mind a few questions...
WOW! you are so organized!. and months ahead too. Given that I just started to avidly listen to books now, I was mainly reading about 3 a month, I;m finding I'm getting overwhelmed with keeping track and I'm a list maker so this process is frustrating to keep track of.

So in your January 2021...
The 3 books just under the title are regular books NOT audios?

And the abbreviations in parentheses? sorry to pry. Is it book classifications? is it the publisher?

Under your monthly reading plans by month are those the month and date listed in parentheses under the spoiler? from other months?

Thank you!

I have three categories for each monthly plan:

1. 2-3-4 Challenge
This is the name of a public group I created specifically for making a dent in my series reading. Books under this heading are next in a series I’ve already started. They are all eBooks.

2. NetGalley/Other
These are NetGalley books that don’t fit in the 2-3-4 category, author review requests or books I own that I want to get started on but are either standalones or first in a series.

3. Audiobooks to Consider
All audiobooks get listed here, no matter if they fit in the other two categories.


The abbreviations are those I use for consistency:
GR - group read; any other abbreviations after that are those for the specific group
AR - author review request
NG - NetGalley

Books under the spoiler? Ignore that. I’m out of control😏 Too lazy to move them for now.

Tina, whatever system you create, make sure it fits how you operate. I’m an organization fiend and make everything fit the way I think of things. And, I strive for consistency, which is how those abbreviations arose. They’re shortcuts for how I think of the priority (group read, author review request, NetGalley). Keep the list short and manageable so you don’t have to create a list to decode them😏

D.G. wrote: "Here's a long explanation of how I go about it. :)

I organize my shelves with 8 exclusive shelves - this means that books can only be in ONE of these 8. This includes the exclusive shelves set by ..."

I like your later in series shelf, might be good to add that to my shelfs too.
My idea is the same although I have some different shelfs. I don't have a special library shelf, but I do have a to be published shelf and I make a difference between my wishlist (might be nice to have) and to buy (books I want to own).

Alyana Pearl wrote: "Tina T wrote: "Just curious how you all organize what you’ve read and what you want to read. I do use goodreads to categorize my subjects but it gets overwhelming with so many authors, series, what..."

Thanks Alyana. I joined the 2021 Reading Challenge group and I'm panning on making my own post to track my personal challenges. I like your list organizations.

D.G. wrote: "Here's a long explanation of how I go about it. :)

I organize my shelves with 8 exclusive shelves - this means that books can only be in ONE of these 8. This includes the exclusive shelves set by ..."


I like your 8 shelves. I may adopt some of those. Initially I was going to do by author but I think the series folders may be the way to go, since when i choose a book I think of the series first not the author. Question... When you said you have 4 shelves for series... are they UNDER the series folder or listed in the main discussions? I'm struggling with working the group posts. It seems one can have folders beside the main Discussion and then topics go within those folders, then comments in those topics. but no sub topics. Just 2 tiers if that makes sense. So for example if I had a folder called Series then within that 4 topics like you explained, then within those are the details but I don't see that level of categories. Its not like other forums... unless I'm doing it wrong.
Thanks for the help.