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[olivermoss]

I am trying to organize what books and audiobooks I have... and trying to do that in the kindle and audible apps just doesn't work. I could make a paper tracking thing, but is there an app I could use for books? I'd like to be able to easily annotate entries. Also Kindle keeps telling me I've only read about 10% of the books I've bought over the years and that's the opposite of true? I just went through my content library via the Amazon site and it's got a lot of stuff marked as unread that I definitely read, and on my kindle device specifically.

I wish I could group books into things like 'stuff only on my account because it was a freebie' and 'My TBR short list'. I'd also love to be able to shove certain purchases in a folder to hide them without deleting them from my account. I paid for that terrible content and sometimes want to go back and reference how bad they are. (There is a Named Fan who loves to push a specific book and misrepresents the content in it because she thinks if people just *try* that sort of content they'll like it. And for once I am not whining about A Companion to Wolves, it's a different horrible recc. I like being able to go 'yes, she says the book has no X, but X is literally the premise, here's an excerpt')

Seriously, why can't I even drag'n'drop to reorder books in the app?



In text books:

* Dreams and Shadows by C Robert Cargill
* Wolfsong by T J Klune
* Crown & Key Trilogy by Clay Griffon and Susan Griffon
* Lord of the White Hall by Gin Hale
* Flight of Icarus - The Eddie Stranger Things novel
* When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole
* Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
* A Burglar's Guide To The City by Geoff Manaugh
* The Left Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
* Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
* A Rival Most Vial by R. K. Askwick
* The entire Necromancer of Beacon Hill series to date by S J Himes

In audio books:

* The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
* The Cascade Killer by Rob Phillips
* Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I'd like to listen to more audiobooks to limit screentime, but we'll see how that goes. With audible especially I really need to sort out why a lot of this is on my account. There are a lot of freebies and promos, and some of those promos were from a weird attempt to push 'clean' stories in the mystery and other genre categories.

Comments

[raine]

Caibre is the only thing I've ever been able to find that helps organize books and has all the features for cataloging, tracking, etc.

[olivermoss]

Thanks. I'll poke at it a bit. I'm not sure I want to move the books outside of Kindle.

[mistressofmuses]

It frustrates me that there doesn't seem to be a good way to self-categorize! I feel like that would be such an obvious feature, even if it was just something like having labeled "shelves" that you can sort your ebooks onto. I don't use kindle much, so my experience is only via the android app, but... yeah, I'd like to be able to sort stuff.

Wolfsong is on my medium-priority TBR list for this year. We'll see if I get to it!

[olivermoss]

Turns out you can view by collections, at least on my app. But it's super futzy and not nearly as nice as simply being able to re-order the books!

I'm doing some paper tracking so I can track ebooks and audio books together.

[mistressofmuses]

It's good that it does have SOME ability to view in a more specific way. I genuinely haven't looked at the app enough, ha. But just being able to drag and drop to reorder things would be so much better! That feels like the sort of thing I'd expect to have as a basic sorting option, and yet!

I'm glad you're tracking stuff! Especially when so many apps and things can't be relied upon to accurately keep track for you, even when they're allegedly supposed to!

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I am doing a lot of organizing and changing how I track things right now.