First off, a little bookkeeping. I have been using Goodreads for years now to track my reading. It’s still a pretty good platform, but it’s also just a lot. A lot of ads. A lot of features I don’t use, like “Reading Challenges,” and a lot of the “Community” stuff.
One of the things I’m going to try to do over the next five years, though, is attempt to self-host as many applications as I can. I found Jelu. I set it up a few days ago and so far, it’s been a pretty good experience. I’ll have some more thoughts on it below, but something you should know is that the data I brought over from Goodreads did not have everything in it I wanted. This is probably my fault, but I’m still in the process of cleaning things up. As a result, the books I’m looking at that I’ve read this year might not be all the ones I actually read this year.