Making myself a reading log

In the beginning, there was Goodreads And then I went off the deep end That was a lot of work. Was it worth it? OK, but what are the downsides? Have you ever wanted to track your reading in an excruciatingly-detailed plain text file that is programmatically parsed, queried, and visualized in charts? I did, and you can see the result on my site’s Reading and Reading Stats pages. This isn’t a new…