Keeping a Record of Read Books

[glperky]

I am looking for a fun way to keep a record of the books my boys read and maybe the ones I read to them. Does anyone have any neat ideas?

[TrueGRIT]

I have kept a record of them on a 'log' - just a sheet of paper with lines printed leaving room for title, author, and date. A symbol of some type indicating if they liked it, hated it, or neutral. An acquaintance printed up the one I use. Notebook or computer paper will work.
I also (in pencil) mark initials and date at the back of a book for when they finish it. These books, of course, belong to me. It is also my favorite way even though I don't normally allow markings in a book.

I would like to "see" what others do.

[Kteni]

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[glperky]

Thanks ladies. I was trying to come up with a fun way to display them. Such as a read of a family that writes the names of the books on colored index cards and hangs them from the bedroom ceiling. Don't know if I could handle that our not, but trying to think of other fun ways.

[StephanieU]

So, I haven't tried this, but the idea just came to me!
Have you ever seen Project Life-style books? It is basically a photo album with pockets. You can put scrapbooking cards and photos in the cards. Maybe you could make a book like that for all of the books read. For each book read, they could make a card or two for the book. A card with the basic information and then another card with a quick, simple review. There are some out there that fit in standard binders and others that fit in more "specialty" binder.

[Kteni]

ack! Stephanie! that is brilliant!!!

[StephanieU]

Good thing my oldest is only 5.5 and not reading independently yet. I can still do this! I might start it with your read-alouds this year and add in the ER books too (which we will start next month)

[glperky]

Thanks Stephanie, I'll look into that.

[Yaya68]

How about photocopying the book cover and making some notations (back) as to like/dislike, memorable characters, quotes, etc., You can either laminate ($$) the pages and make a book of sorts, or just 3 hole punch and place them in a binder. I just might do this myself. you can get as elaborate as you'd like.

hth