Books. Yeah, books. The too much stuff thread on the rpg board got me to thinking and i'm a raging bibliophile. I've never thrown or given away a single book i've bought (and i buy more than i can ever read). I never break the spine of paperbacks - books that are 25 years old and have been read several times are almost in shop condition.
But that isn't it. I was wondering whether anyone else keeps a 'books read' log.
Every book i read, i log - Title, Author, Genre, Date started, date finished, rating out of 4 starts and a special notation for a re-read. I started this in 1993 and have since logged every paperback or hardback i've ever read. I remember seeing a documentary about some guy in the mid-west of America who had a huge library of western paperbacks. He wrote inside the front cover when he read them, each time he read them. I thought that was a cool idea and have done it ever since (not in the book itself but in an old diary).
Interestingly, the only book i've read in that time that i have given a full 4 stars to is The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce.
Am i alone in keeping a books read journal?