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We have today multiple ways to learn something new or read a story. Whether it is a a paper books or ebooks or even listening to books with audible for example you have the choice. Whatever you have little or a lot of time ahead of you, having a reading plan and tracking it is probably a good thing to do to reach your reading objective.

Do you struggle and seek a better way to read ? Are your struggling finishing your books ? tracking your reading goals ? making notes ? finding new books and organize them by priority, category, objective ? Kevin Nokia thoughts has great tips on a better way to reading.

Book management solutions are a great to use. They should include features helping you managing efficiently your paper books or ebooks in a much better way than a physical library.

Books have many attributes you can make use of such as :

• Book title, short description, year and writers, publishers of course
• Book cover and summary
• Number of pages
• Genres and personnalized category or shelf for the book and date you added the book to it
• Your own notes or quotations about the book
• Price : because buying books is a budget and you might want to sell your books when you are done
• Estimated reading time based on number of pages
• Rating and sharing, last time read
• Language
• ISBN code or International Standard Book Number which is a unique ID for books
• Format if it’s an ebook

Book management solutions may have these features :

• Search for books on google or amazon by title or isbn
• Create reading lists
• Get meta data for books from trusted source such as description, language, number of pages, writers, publishers, genres, isbn, rease date
• Synchronize your books to multiple devices like a Kindle
• Associate a reminder to read your book
• Mark last read page or mark book as read
• Add notes, rating, quotes
• Record time spent on reading
• Scroll automatically while reading
• Assist you with translation or definition for highlighted words
• Keep track of books you borrowed and date you must return it
• Manage series for manga and comics

Connected domains are :

• Feed management
• Audio management
• Document management

Finally here is our top five of book management solutions :

• calibre – Created in 2006, its real strenghts is all about ebook format viewing, editing, converting, synchronizing to different devices etc…
• Goodreads – Which mainly allows you to search for new books, find new releases get recommandations, get reading lists from the community
• BookBuddy – Which is for Apple platforms and can keep track of of borrowed and lent books
• Alfa eBooks – is for personnal computer only but it has nearly all the features we expect in a book management including the management of audio books
• Kavita – is a web-based solution which has a feature to manage series of manga or comics. It has also reading statistics