Why I’ve stopped tracking what I read (and my habits)

This is the seventh post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series on changing how I use technology and where I stopped using it altogether. These are the previous posts: the joys of imperfection Do we really need the latest tech My e-reader made me a worse reader Not everything needs to be in the cloud Anti AI? Be Pro Human! Algorithms are toxic —- Over the past month or so, I haven’t kept track of what I was reading in the perfect little list I kept in my notes app and then updated on here regularly. I looked at the list in my notes today and was actually happy that I couldn’t even try to add what I’ve read since the last update (also because I constantly forget titles of books). This past reading month reminded me a lot of how I used to read since childhood, voraciously and having all books I wanted to read near me so I could grab what I wanted. I want to build stacks again like I did as a kid, but I want the stacks to be flexible too, because TBR’s are great, but changing them is…