Paul McCafferty
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  • Finished reading: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:03 PM, Mar 25
  • Finished reading: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:46 AM, Mar 23
  • Finished reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 5:30 PM, Mar 19
  • Finished reading: Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:28 PM, Mar 19
  • Finished reading: Superhuman by Habit by Tynan πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:29 PM, Mar 17
  • Finished reading: The Organised Writer by Antony Johnston πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:24 PM, Mar 15
  • Finished reading: The Outward Urge by John Wyndham πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:34 PM, Mar 12
  • LibraryThing πŸ“š

    On 25th November 2011 I paid the princely sum of $25 for lifetime membership of LibraryThing. At the time I think there was a free membership with a limit on the number of books logged. Although I hadn’t yet reached that limit I wanted to support the developers because I was making good use of the site.

    When I first joined, a couple of years earlier, my need to catalogue things had been there for a while. I stumbled across LibraryThing when I was looking at options for cataloguing books. This was in a world before Goodreads. To begin with, I took some time to try to remember everything I’d read. Of course I must have missed some titles but I’m confident I remembered the most important. Aside from some guessed reading years I think My library is pretty accurate.

    Collections are one way to organise your books. Currently I use collections to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction. I also use them to indicate ownership status and to highlight favourites. LibraryThing also offers tags which I use to record whether a book has been read and if so in what year. I also use tags to identify genre (or subject in the case of non-fiction), format, and what I want to do with a book after I’ve read it.

    It’s always a work in progress though. I like to tinker with the structure and organisation. At the moment I’m cleaning it up (again), ensuring that media for each title is correct, book covers are accurate and publication dates are the original ones. I’m also updating the tags I use.

    Since joining Micro.blog I’ve started to use Epilogue to track books I finish and, following the example of others on Micro.blog and elsewhere on the web, I now have a reading page and another which lists books I’ve finished by year. At some point I’d like to add some sort of rating system.

    It’s over 11 years since I became a lifetime member. I’m very happy with the site and although I’ve been tempted to migrate over to Goodreads a few times I’m very glad I stuck with it - Amazon already owns enough of me and LibraryThing looks more indie web anyway!

    β†’ 3:46 PM, Mar 12
  • Finished reading: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:26 PM, Mar 3
  • Finished reading: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:20 PM, Feb 15
  • Finished reading: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:10 PM, Jan 28
  • Finished reading: Chocky by John Wyndham πŸ“š

    β†’ 4:52 PM, Jan 18
  • Finished reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:51 AM, Jan 1
  • Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler πŸ“š

    β†’ 5:18 PM, Dec 30
  • Finished reading: Molly and the Isle of Kasta by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:42 PM, Dec 22
  • Finished reading: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:41 PM, Dec 6
  • Finished reading: 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:05 PM, Nov 18
  • Finished reading: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:08 PM, Nov 14
  • Finished reading: The Child in Time by Ian McEwan πŸ“š

    β†’ 1:04 PM, Nov 12
  • Finished reading: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek πŸ“š At times it felt like a biography of Apple and it was probably a little too long, but some great insights nonetheless

    β†’ 6:18 PM, Nov 9
  • Phase one of my Books Read page is complete. Everything I’ve logged as read on LibraryThing is now listed, by year, on the page. Next I need to find a simple way of highlighting favourite and recommended titles πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:14 PM, Nov 2
  • Finished reading: The Psychology Of Money by Morgan House πŸ“š

    β†’ 1:55 PM, Oct 28
  • Finished reading: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 4:12 PM, Oct 27
  • Finished reading: Free Will [Deckle Edge] by Sam Harris πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:00 AM, Jul 14
  • Finished reading: On Writing by Stephen King πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:36 AM, Jun 25
  • Finished reading: Traction by Gino Wickman πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:17 AM, May 30
  • Finished reading: Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable … Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results by Gino Wickman πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:18 AM, May 9
  • Finished reading: Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:21 PM, Apr 29
  • Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:58 PM, Feb 24
  • Finished reading: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou πŸ“š Interesting that I read this in the same week the court case reached a conclusion. It’s a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley investors and a great read!

    β†’ 6:20 PM, Jan 7
  • Finished reading: Make Time by Jake Knapp πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:13 PM, Jan 3
  • A great observation by Cal Newport in his book Deep Work

    Busyness as Proxy for Productivity - in the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.

    β†’ 9:41 PM, Dec 21
  • Finished reading: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon) by Austin Kleon πŸ“š

    β†’ 4:14 PM, Dec 19
  • A great quote on the subject of storytelling from Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

    ’The cat sat on the mat’ is not a story. β€˜The cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is a story

    John Le Carre

    β†’ 8:42 PM, Dec 18
  • Finished reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:10 PM, Dec 18
  • Finished reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:05 PM, Nov 24
  • Finished reading: Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa VΓ©liz πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:31 PM, Oct 15
  • A great question posed by Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One > What important truth do very few people agree with you on? πŸ“š

    β†’ 5:16 PM, Jun 30
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