sharifx / reading-list

My reading list

reading-list

This is a list to track what I have read.

Over the years I have been keeping lists in different places and different formats. I think using git provides the simplest (plain text based) and the most efficient way to track my reading. Jamie Rubin's post inspired to me create this repo and start using it regularly. I am also borrowing the format from Jamie (with some slight changes, the format will be simple, no hyperlinks):

<number>.[space]<title> by <author>;[space]<date_finished/YYYY/MM/DD> 

This simple format will be useful to parse the text and process it later if needed. The list will be primarily for books in print (maybe I will create a separate list for articles and papers). And I like the idea of using the commit message for comments.

I use the command line and Linux tools for my work so most of the list maintenance will be done in Vi and MacDown then git commit, push. For now, it will be just one reading.md file -- starting from Oct 2019. I will need to see how to gather the old reading lists and migrate it here. I have read (maybe not all of them cover to cover) gazillion books during my disseration research years but not sure if I will migrate those here.

I still write book reviews once in a while but they will be posted om my blog.