Bloggiesta Mini Challenge: Organize your books

I'm not officially doing Bloggiesta this time around.  But,  I liked the mini challenge hosted by Jenn's Bookshelves about organizing your books.

I don't know that I'm super organized. I always schedule reviews that have set dates. I just create a draft post in blogger on the date the review is to be published. When I finish the book, I add the review and it's ready. If a book has an open date, I still schedule the reviews. Ideally, I like one post/review a week day. Sometimes it's less. But,  I don't like doing multiple posts in a day.  I will sometimes have reviews scheduled for weeks out.

I should let people know when I receive books, but I don't.  I do try to let publicists know when reviews are posted.

I always note in the review where I got the book, whether it's mine, the library's or from a publicist/author.  I've gone back through old posts and added that information.

When I first started reviewing and was offered books, I took everything. I quickly figured out that wasn't a realistic thing to do. I read quickly, but it's very easy to get overwhelmed with review books.  I realized very early on that if I had to force myself to read a book, chances are I wasn't going to like it.  Because of that, I've learned that if I think I might not like a book, I don't take it. I don't relish writing negative reviews or doing DNF posts. So, sometimes if I don't like a book or simply cannot finish it, I'll do a preview post with an "about the book" and an "about the author" instead, rather than doing a negative or DNF.  I do, however, believe in being honest and I like knowing when someone doesn't like a book and why.

I have all of my review books in a stack on the end table by my bed.  They stay in one place unless I'm currently reading one of them.  I can tell, at a glance, how many are actual review books.  I also have a category in Goodreads called, "In My Reading Basket" and those are the books I have in my possession that need to be read.

What about you?  Do you have an organizing system?

Comments

  1. I'm not nearly as organized as you are. I do have my books organized, but it's in a system only I can understand and it's hard to explain.

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  2. I don't have to organize much since, unfortunately, I'm not reading a whole lot of books right now, just two: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. The first is kinda for work and the second is with my hubby, but they are both good.

    Laura-Cedar Fort

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  3. I've just started keeping my books organized by the month a review is due. But, I'm backing away from review books and hope to get back to reading from only my personal shelves (with a few exceptions), soon. It's very easy to take on too many ARCs. I was doing really well at not accepting many and then I started to miss getting parcels, around Christmas -- we don't have much family, so we get hardly any gifts and I don't suppose it's surprising I did a lot of requesting during the holidays, but I'll restrain myself in the future. Having too many books with specific due dates can end up being an exhausting burden.

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  4. Bookfool,

    I'm finding that have too many scheduled due dates is truly exhausting and it often affects how I like a book. For some books, I've found, you need to be in a certain state of mind to read and enjoy them.

    I'm hoping to get back to finding some of these new books at the library instead of requesting ARCs that I then MUST read by a certain date.

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