What's my name again???

[susandennis]

In 1994, when I first started my website, I started keeping track of the books I read.  At the time, I was buying a lot of them and felt that buying books I had already read seemed a might wasteful.  I thought keeping a list would help.  It did, kinda. 

Over the years the static list morphed into a database driven page.  It's very rudimentary but easy to update and tweak.  My routine is when I finish a book I  add it to the database, then upload the database, then check the website, copy the entry into an email and send out the email to my little list o' followers.

Today, I added my latest book I noticed that there was another entry for the same book...  ?????

WTF?  Turns out, I read the this very same book 7 years ago (and didn't like it much).  But, I honestly had zero memory of the book, its title, its plot, its characters - any of it! 

This could be excellent news...

I have 653 books in my database now - well, 652 actually.  99% of them are books I really enjoyed (cause if I don't like 'em, I don't finish 'em and they don't get into the database).  So if I am totally wiping out the memory of all of them, that means I have a proven list of 652 now to pick from for future reading!!!

The book that is doubled up is Greg Iles' 24 Hours. 

Comments

[howeird]

A books-read database - what a great idea for those of us who are having a Senior Life. Maybe should also have a movies-seen one (though Netflix will give me a list of all the ones I've rented from them).

Life is too short to read the same book twice. Unless it's Through the Looking Glass or the Norton Anthology of English Poetry.

[susandennis]

Netflix will give me a list of what I've rented??!! Cool!

And, clearly, we have different reading tastes :).

Also, I'm happy to read a book I've read as long as I have no memory of it.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I got ya some more books last night and perhaps some day I will get around to sending them. I have a vacation coming up and that might be just the time!