The author reflects on their lifelong passion for reading and the transition from joyfully tracking books to becoming overly focused on metrics. Their journey began in childhood with organized logs and intensified with the advent of Goodreads. However, the pressure to meet reading goals led to a decrease in enjoyment. This realization prompted a decision to stop tracking actively. Now, the author embraces a wider range of content, illustrating a balance between quantity and quality in their reading journey, reaffirming the joy found in the act of reading itself.
After many years of tracking the books I'd read, I began to lose some of the joy that came with reading. I became obsessed with hitting the reading goals I'd set for myself on Goodreads every January.
Tracking my reading habits made the experience less about fun and more about meeting a metric. I was overthinking and missing the point of reading in the first place.
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