Book Tracking: Journal or Digital?

Many bloggers, readers and book lovers in general love tracking their books. Whether it’s just saving which books you’ve read each month, tracking your reading statistics or tracking personal challenges, it’s great for us to see how much we have read. There are so many different ways of tracking your reading and as a fan of tracking things via a journal AND digital, I decided to write this post discussing both of these possibilities.

Tracking via a Journal

I absolutely love tracking my reading via a journal. I started tracking through a journal years ago. First with some printed journal that you can get through Amazon, and then last year I progressed into creating my very only reading journal through a bullet journal. Bullet journaling has become a favourite way of tracking my reading. I find it relaxing and it’s a great pastime for me. It does take a long time and can be a huge commitment but it’s one of the best things I ever started doing. And with the aids of stencils and stamps, my unartistic self can even make it look awesome.

For me the best thing about doing a book journal that I have designed myself is that it has everything I want in there. I have space for all my personal challenges, a place to track my reading stats and somewhere for mini-reviews. Check out the pictures below to see some of my 2022 journal, using Archer and Olive B5 size.

Digital Tracking

There are so many apps now that can help you to track you reading. Goodreads is probably the most popular one, but there is Storygraph now that helps you see some graphics of reading themes and such. I personally also use Bookly where I can track my individual reading sessions and it gives me reading statistics.

Digital tracking is so much easier than journaling. I love my journaling but I also do digital tracking because it’s quick and easy. Sometimes life gets in the way and you’re too busy to sit down and journal. With digital book tracking you can just easily add an update from your phone on the go and that is perfect. I love using Bookly to track quotes and such as I read. I use quotes in my reviews and I love that they have a voice to text feature so I can just read it aloud and Bookly will save it there for me to go back and read when I am finished with the book and starting to write my reviews.

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