and can prove it!

Have you seen this neat new addition to Goodreads? They keep stats on how many books you read per year for ya. No more having to tag books with the year you read them. It’s a dream.

Click the above link to see how I doubled my reading in my 2nd year of using Goodreads and look to do the same this year. It still doesn’t feel like I’m reading enough. There are so many wonderful titles sitting on my nightstand unloved and many more tempting me from the bookshelf and Goodreads Book Clubs. One of the fantasy groups has decided to read Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay and that’s only been sitting unread pretty much since I’ve been married. Which then reminds me that his new work Under Heaven tempts me every time I enter Chapters.

Still I’m delighted to see the record of what I’ve read over the course of a year and know that my library, knowledge and imagination continue their adventure.

To find your own stats, visit your “my books” page. In the menu to the left, all the way at the bottom under all of your bookshelves, you’ll see “Stats.” Click to be simulataneously amazed and oh so proud of yourself!

In other good news, there’s new widget functionality from Goodreads…

The “custom widget” has had more options added to it. Show off your tags, the cover, the author, your rating, the choices are now pretty much endless. I’ve been using the “my books” widget so far but am now playing around with the new version.

New book group widgets are also available. Yes, that’s right, you can put a Chicks on Lit widget on your website!

See, here’s an example, one of the newer book blogs from Chicks on Lit members has one in their sidebar: visit The Broke and the Bookish to see it in action. I love their tagline of “will read for food.”

Good day, everyone.

ps. Courtesy of Twitter – as everything is these days – I learned through Indie Store Finder that there are no independent booksellers in our city. Only ones in the large metropolis south of us. Isn’t that sad? I can name four second-hand bookshops in town without thinking very hard about it, but for new books, it’s the big box store or the web. Do you have a favourite bookstore?

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