The best kind of weekend project takes just a few scattered hours while solving a supremely pedantic annoyance. That's the story of my hand-rolled book-tracking replacement. The idea stemmed from a discussion with friends, where a conversation about books transitioned into how we keep track of our respective lists. Unlike Letterboxd, which solves movie-tracking with a sublime grace, every reading platform kind of stinks. Goodreads is a vehicle for advertisement that has languished under Amazon's stewardship. Storygraph is the Next Best Thing, but is (unfortunately) supremely ugly. Margins looks neat but caters too heavily to the obsessive-impulsiveness of the BookTok crowd. Hardcover gives me whiplash every time it swaps between open source fantasy and legitimate product. I don't mean to be too hard on these products, making a social book site is a surprisingly hard endeavor. The world of editions, publishers, and ISBNs is an absolute mess! But look, I just need a place to keep a list…
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