I appreciate your comments. Let’s not think of it like I’ve stopped. I haven’t really been reading much lately anyway, at least not on my normal topics. I have been reading a bit in one broad “applied” subject area but as I said I won’t be discussing that here anyway.

I will try and discuss some of the things I read once I start reading again and I honestly am not seeing myself getting back into that amount of reading anytime soon anyway. Thus, it might be easier to do a better job with the things I do peruse.

I have a book review that I am working on for publication [main priority at the moment], and then I need to seriously get to reading the last few things for my CAS paper. I will also need to re-read many things so perhaps further (or 1st-time) commentary on some of them will come about.

It’s really hard to say what will happen but I guess I primarily needed to remove the pressure of doing them each week and the feeling bad if I did a poor job on any entry and if I didn’t read much that week, etc. It’s already a big relief cutting myself that slack.

I will miss it. I learned a lot from everything you abstacted for me. Thanks so much for that work. Sorry I have not commented on your blog lately. I read everything you post and always hope and pray you are doing well.

Thanks again,
Nathan

I had joined the GSLIS Reads Facebook group and contributed several of my actual commentaries/reviews on some of the better things in a couple categories but got absolutely no feedback. I won’t disparage the YA and adult pop lit discussions as clearly more people read and are interested in those items than what I have been reading.

But. A little interest from LIS students and faculty didn’t seem to be asking much. I checked back in yesterday after months and still no feedback. Of course, it doesn’t look to be too hopping of a place period … but still.

Anyway, thanks. If/when our tools for the collection of bibliographic metadata to the consistent output, sharing and updating thereof improve I will try to put some of my bibliographies/reading lists on the Web. Perhaps those could serve the same kind of use case.

Angel and jenny, GoodReads looks useful but I’ve already got LibraryThing and Zotero and …. I guess I need to experience it’s social aspects before I can really say. But I really wonder how many folks that use that site might be interested in what I’ve been reading. I mean, I might get voted off the island. See my comments above re lack of feedback from my own student peers on what I read in our FB group.

A big issue for me, though, is much of what I read is not going to be there, nor is it in Amazon as supposedly most everything is, based on their claim (hahaha). Thus, I’d be doing even more manual data entry.

Oh well. This is a minor issue to work out compared to others lately.

Thanks all for the comments, though.

Best, and keep on blogging.