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.
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.
Thanks Nuriko.
