New Year's Resolutions: Lock in for 2026

[shanaqui]

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(And this creates a loophole of how quickly the books should be processed and accounted for after acquisition for this not to be cheating by not entering the pages into the database. I think within 24 hours should be reasonable - unless it’s a “read now” for a limited time or a library item for which my turn came, so I have to grab asap but am too busy to immediately add all the tags by which the code pulls the titles from goodreads etc. - then by the end of the week should be okay. @shanaqui I remember you had some really good thoughts on a similar matter - was it in your journaling thread? IIRC, it involved accountability to your partner? I am thinking of how to avoid a slippery slope here.)

I did have a whole deliberation about this for my to-be-read goal and 2025books. Let’s see if I can find that… here we go! Me and my wife worked it out, and here’s what we came to:

Books are removed from the count on the day they are started.

Books are added to the count on the day they are catalogued and added to my StoryGraph TBR list, unless this is unreasonably delayed:

• If the cataloguing is more than five days after the buying, and would have derailed me, then the datapoint should be backdated and a derailment should be forced, unless the circumstances were exceptional (such as an exam, unexpected trip, etc).
• If I started reading any of the new books without cataloguing all of them, the data should be backdated to the day I started reading them. Exceptional circumstances also apply in this case.

Fine print written with and approved by Lisa, on 1st June 2025.