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Finished reading: Seven Myths About Money by Rob Dix πŸ“š

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Finished reading: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2025-12-11T12:51:58+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2025/12/11/finished-reading-amsterdam-by-ian.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2025/11/16/finished-reading-the-silent-patient.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides πŸ“š

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Finished reading: How to Beat ChatGPT by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

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Finished reading: No Less The Devil by Stuart MacBride πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Client by John Grisham πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Butter by Asako Yuzuki πŸ“š

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Finished reading: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2025-06-15T16:46:01+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2025/06/15/finished-reading-a-thousand-splendid.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2025/05/18/finished-reading-taxtopia-by-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: TAXTOPIA by The Rebel Accountant πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-18T17:38:08+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2025/05/18/finished-reading-taxtopia-by-the.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2025/05/11/finished-reading-otherlands-by-thomas.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday πŸ“š

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Finished reading: How to Own the World by Andrew Craig πŸ“š

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Finished reading: What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T19:23:09+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2025/02/28/finished-reading-what-we-owe.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/12/31/finished-reading-spring-snow-by.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-12-18T10:31:46+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/12/18/finished-reading-all.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/12/17/finished-reading-love.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Love, Life and Legacy by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Elevation by Stephen King πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Prince by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Keep Going by Austin Kleon πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-10-13T20:41:07+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/10/13/finished-reading-lady.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/09/29/finished-reading-bedsit.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-09-29T16:16:51+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/09/29/finished-reading-bedsit.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/09/21/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The More of Less by Joshua Becker πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Match by Harlan Coben πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Simplify by Joshua Becker πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Being Elvis by Ray Connolly πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Joshua Fields Millburn πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-08-12T20:35:39+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/08/12/finished-reading-cinema.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/07/28/finished-reading-elvis.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Year of Less by Cait Flanders πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-07-13T14:45:52+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/07/13/144552.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/07/13/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini πŸ“š

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In 2022 I decided to set a goal of reading 50 books a year for 3 consecutive years. I’m likely to complete my goal - I read 50 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and this year I’ve read 21 books so far. However I’ve read a lot of non-fiction and I’m beginning to feel like a receptacle for other peoples ideas, theories and advice.

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Next year I’m changing my approach. Instead of number of books I’m going to focus on quality. War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov and East of Eden are front of the queue. I intend to create a list of specific books I want to read during the year and the only non-fiction on the list will be biographies of people who interest me.

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Finished reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-28T15:35:16+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/06/28/finished-reading-the.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/06/25/finished-reading-bram.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Bram, A Spy Story by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-25T10:13:39+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/06/25/finished-reading-bram.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/06/11/finished-reading-how.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: How to Live by Derek Sivers πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-11T17:31:13+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/06/11/finished-reading-how.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/06/10/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Tao of Seneca Vol. 1 by Seneca πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-06-01T10:32:02+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/06/01/finished-reading-slow.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/05/27/finished-reading-hell.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Hell Yeah Or No by Derek Sivers πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T13:35:20+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/05/27/finished-reading-hell.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/05/24/finished-reading-i.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-24T19:31:12+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/05/24/finished-reading-i.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/05/18/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Communist Manifesto by Karl. Marx πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-18T17:25:03+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/05/18/finished-reading-the.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/05/04/finished-reading-storyworthy.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-04T20:34:41+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/05/04/finished-reading-storyworthy.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/05/03/finished-reading-and.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: And Away… by Bob Mortimer πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2024-05-03T14:27:18+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2024/05/03/finished-reading-and.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2024/04/29/digital-scaffolding.html", "title": "Digital Scaffold", "content_html": "

For some time now and almost without realising it, I’ve been building a digital scaffold for my memories.

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Social media is one example, but I’ve barely been using this in recent years and prefer to add what little I do share to Micro.blog.

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But there are more subtle aspects. My IMDb lists hold a record of all the films I’ve watched since 2004. My (more recent) Letterboxd account also includes the date and with whom I watched the film. Last.fm captures music I’ve listened to, and concerts I’ve attended are kept in Setlist.fm. All the books I’ve read are catalogued in LibraryThing, which I’ve written about before.

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The more I think about it, the more scaffolding boards I discover. This is a topic I will be returning to…

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In another attempt to improve the usefulness of the books catalogued in Micro.blog I’ve now spent some time reviewing my Favourites Collection on Librarything. I’ve always found it difficult to make shortlists like this and I’m sure I’ll continue to tweak it over time. But for now this is the list I have and I’ve now added a ⭐️ next to each of my favourite titles on my Books Read page

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As the number of books I’ve read continues to grow I’ve been thinking about how best to make the page listing these more useful. Until now the only thing I’ve identified is books I’ve re-read using πŸ”„. But I recently re-read Walden and enjoyed it much less second time round. So I’m not sure this is worthwhile in itself.

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On LibraryThing I have a collection called favourites but it’s a work in progress. I intend to spend time on this in the next few weeks. When it’s finished, I’ll go through my list on here and add ⭐️ against all my favourite titles.

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In the meantime I’ve decided to rank the top 3 books I read each year using πŸ₯‡, πŸ₯ˆ and πŸ₯‰. The usefulness of this is limited, since some years I read a handful of average books and other years I read many great books. However I think the combination of identifying the top 3 books each year, those I’ve read more than once and my overall favourites will give my list of books read more value.

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Finished reading: Walden by Henry David Thoreau πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Someday Is Today by Matthew Dicks πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Treat Your Own Shoulder by Robin McKenzie πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Godfather by Mario Puzo πŸ“š

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Finished reading: It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Singin' in the Rain by Peter Wollen πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Skint Knees by Fay (Hawson) Copland πŸ“š

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Finished reading: A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley πŸ“š

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Finished reading: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry πŸ“š

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Finished reading: How to Set Goals with Kaizen & Ikigai by Anthony Raymond πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Introducing George the Poet by George the Poet πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Epidemics of Modern Life by Oliver Burkeman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The PARA Method by Tiago Forte πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Hooked by Paul Merson πŸ“š

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Finished reading: How To Talk Finance by Ted Wainman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Ikigai by HΓ©ctor GarcΓ­a πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Where Good Ideas Come from by Steven Johnson πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber πŸ“š

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Finished reading: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Our Fathers by Andrew O’Hagan πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Surrender by Bono πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry W. Phillips πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott πŸ“š

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

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Finished reading: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Superhuman by Habit by Tynan πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Organised Writer by Antony Johnston πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Outward Urge by John Wyndham πŸ“š

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Finished reading: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Chocky by John Wyndham πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-30T18:18:39+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/12/30/finished-reading-kindred.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/12/22/finished-reading-molly.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Molly and the Isle of Kasta by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

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Finished reading: 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni πŸ“š

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Finished reading: The Child in Time by Ian McEwan πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek πŸ“š\nAt times it felt like a biography of Apple and it was probably a little too long, but some great insights nonetheless

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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

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Finished reading: The Psychology Of Money by Morgan House πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-10-28T14:55:45+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/10/28/finished-reading-the.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/10/27/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Free Will [Deckle Edge] by Sam Harris πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-14T12:00:01+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/07/14/finished-reading-free.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/06/25/finished-reading-on.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: On Writing by Stephen King πŸ“š

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Finished reading: Traction by Gino Wickman πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-30T12:17:29+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/05/30/finished-reading-traction.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/05/09/finished-reading-get.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable . . . Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results by Gino Wickman πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-05-09T12:18:45+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/05/09/finished-reading-get.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/04/29/finished-reading-men.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-29T13:21:08+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/04/29/finished-reading-men.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/02/24/finished-reading-amusing.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-02-24T13:58:28+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/02/24/finished-reading-amusing.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2022/01/07/finished-reading-bad.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou πŸ“š\nInteresting 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!

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Finished reading: Make Time by Jake Knapp πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2022-01-03T13:13:37+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2022/01/03/finished-reading-make.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2021/12/21/a-great-observation.html", "content_html": "

A great observation by Cal Newport in his book Deep Work

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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.

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Finished reading: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon) by Austin Kleon πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2021-12-19T17:14:01+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2021/12/19/finished-reading-show.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2021/12/18/a-great-quote.html", "content_html": "

A great quote on the subject of storytelling from Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

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

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John Le Carre

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Finished reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2021-12-18T21:10:28+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2021/12/18/finished-reading-deep.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2021/11/24/finished-reading-for.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2021-11-24T16:05:27+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2021/11/24/finished-reading-for.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2021/10/15/finished-reading-privacy.html", "content_html": "\n

Finished reading: Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa VΓ©liz πŸ“š

\n", "date_published": "2021-10-15T16:31:06+01:00", "url": "https://paulmccafferty.net/2021/10/15/finished-reading-privacy.html", "tags": ["books"] }, { "id": "http://paulmccafferty.micro.blog/2021/06/30/a-great-question.html", "content_html": "

A great question posed by Peter Thiel in his book Zero to One

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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?\nπŸ“š

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