Reading Tracker

A simple reading log built to answer one question: what am I actually reading, and what does that reveal about where my attention is going?

The problem

Most reading trackers optimize for volume — books per year, pages per day. That wasn’t the metric I cared about. I wanted to understand patterns: which topics I return to, which authors I read deeply versus once, where my thinking is clustered versus sparse.

What it does

A flat CSV log feeds a handful of scripts that generate summary views: topics over time, author frequency, reading velocity by month. No database, no app, no sync. A text file and some scripts.

Stack

Python for the data processing, a small shell script to add entries from the command line. Output is plain HTML, same aesthetic as this site.

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