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読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nuriko - 2011-08-29

For those who like to read, whether in Japanese or English, there's a Japanese site where you can keep track of your reading. You categorize your books into 1) what you're currently reading, 2) what books you've read, 3) what books you own (but haven't read yet), and 4) what books you want to read.

And here it is: http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/

This site uses an Amazon + iTunes database, so when you search for a book you want to add to any of the groups above, you can quickly add it if it's in the Amazon/iTunes databases or if a user has added it already. It's a very comprehensive database.

When you search, you can narrow your search by 和書 or 洋書, so, you can add both Japanese and non-Japanese books alike.

This site also keeps track of statistics regarding your reading (though it's a somewhat limited amount). It tells how you many pages you've read in a month or year, the average amount of pages you read per day, and it creates graphs from such information. You have the option to type in the date you finished the book and any comments you'd like to make about it. You can put a "check" on a calendar to mark that you've read for the day. The site "knows" the number of pages for each book, which is how you're able to automatically know the amount of pages you read per year/month.

You can also put together virtual bookshelves categorized as you like, you can make friends, you can "つばやく" something (read: it has twitter-like function), you are given a list of users who share common reading tastes with you, there are ranking lists (most popular books, users who have read the most, etc). And, this is a big plus... this is a great site for finding new books that fit your interests. If you use this site, it's pretty much impossible to not know what book to read next.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nuriko - 2011-08-29

If you sign up or already have an account, feel free to add me: http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/131422

The more friends, the merrier! If the "What are you currently reading?" thread on here is fun to look through, then I can imagine that it would be even more fun to add one another on 読書メーター and see what friends are reading.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - kodorakun - 2011-08-30

I'm going to shamelessly plug "Learning With Texts" again as it is now my favorite new piece of software, tracks your reading, gives you statistics, exports to anki, etc. and is all around awesome. Then again, it doesn't have social networking, bookstore interfacing or anything like that...

http://lwt.sourceforge.net/

K.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - pudding cat - 2011-08-30

Me on 読書メーター　http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/121303

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - mezbup - 2011-08-30

Meです。　http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/121359

みんな、友達になろう。

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Shakunatz - 2011-08-31

Here I am http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/105978

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Zorlee - 2011-08-31

http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/129026 =)

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nuriko - 2011-08-31

Glad to see some of you participating on this site! Anyone else interested?

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Pauline - 2011-09-01

I'm trying to figure out where/how to add people.

http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/121397

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - pudding cat - 2011-09-01

@Pauline
When you look at someone's profile click on ▲お気に入りに追加 under their avatar to add them.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Pauline - 2011-09-01

@pudding cat
Thank you. I found it.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nuriko - 2011-09-12

Bumping the thread so more people can know about this site

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - howtwosavealif3 - 2011-09-12

I wanted to suggest something I did that helped me find other authors.
So I have my top 2 authors that I like the mos tthus far wh oare mori eto and honda takayoshi and so I serached chiebukuro and sure enough there were other people who loved them too and they asked like oh i like these authors who else do you think i'll like.

so i wanted to say try asking on chiebukuro if you need other similar books/authors etc.

and as far as that site goes I got 5 nices so far Smile
People can "nice" other people's comments about the book if they think it's nice.
and some random japanese person ki ni ire-d me lol.
oh wait I know why he did that ...
he wrote
性描写が多くて冗長な気がする。それ除けばまあまあ？何も残らない？
for RIKO―女神(ヴィーナス)の永遠 (角川文庫)
and i commented on it saying
howtwosavealif3
性描写は読めないし。。。恥ずかしすぎるから。。ｗｗｗ

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - captal - 2011-09-14

http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/136180

I'm in too Wink Thanks Nuriko.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - captal - 2011-09-14

What does 積読本 mean? I can't find the definition anywhere.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Copycatken - 2011-09-14

captal Wrote:What does 積読本 mean? I can't find the definition anywhere.
I had the exact same question. Turns out that it is a short form of「積んでおく本→積読本（つんどくぼん）」. So a book stack/pile. In this context, it's a book you bought but haven't read yet.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - captal - 2011-09-14

I just found it as well: 積読（つんどく）本とは「買った（借りた）けどまだ読み始めていない本」のことですね。

Thanks!

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Cacawate - 2011-09-17

http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/136963
http://gamemeter.net/u/17410

Looks coooool.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Splatted - 2011-09-17

Yay, I was just thinking I needed some 読書 friends. Big Grin

Here's me: http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/117474

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - IceCream - 2011-10-01

me: http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/140950 ^_^

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nagareboshi - 2011-10-01

Since a few days I also have my profile there, and somehow even managed to add a book to my list. Mistake number one, I misread something, and now I have a book in my list as being read already instead of reading right now. Now I wish to remove and add the book again, but how? I saw no delete button or anything of that nature. >_<

http://book.akahoshitakuya.com/u/137244 Smile

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Splatted - 2011-10-01

If you go to the page of the book you read it should have a comment box with the date you added it. There should be a white button underneath that with 削除 written in it. If I remember correctly that removes the book from your 読み終わった　pile.

You can add books multiple times (ie. re-read them) so adding it to your now reading pile doesn't cancel the mistake.

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nuriko - 2011-10-01

Oh, that's right... D: I deleted my comment so no one else gets confused (like I did).

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Nagareboshi - 2011-10-01

@Splatted, Nuriko: I knew I would find out how this works. *duck and run* 助けてくれてありがとう! Smile

読書メーター A site that tracks/manages your reading - Splatted - 2011-10-01

Nuriko Wrote:Oh, that's right... D: I deleted my comment so no one else gets confused (like I did).
And now it's as if it never happened. Tongue


Nagareboshi Wrote:@Splatted, Nuriko: I knew I would find out how this works. *duck and run* 助けてくれてありがとう! Smile
You're welcome.