[Oneiros512]

I've always had a fascination with tracking things myself. I remember daydreaming when I was younger about wishing I had some kind of way to see how many of some particular food item I'd eaten over the course of my life, or how many words I'd ever spoken. I never got too heavily into making my own spreadsheets, but I got into tracking running and walking with apps like runkeeper, using a site to track every movie I watched, tracking each video game I owned and whether I had beaten it yet, and when I couldn't find a good site for tracking the TV shows I'd watched I did make a very simple spreadsheet for that.

Over time I've pulled away from the practice somewhat as I've started to think the obsession with tracking my activities was detracting from the experience somewhat. I'd end up thinking more about adding to my total miles walked on my tracker than enjoying the walk itself. On a level as granular as tracking 10-page chunks of books you must be getting distracted on some level from the actual content, I would think.

I still use that tracking site for movies and I do use Goodreads for books, and I find them great resources for figuring out what to read/watch next, but those are now more secondary to the actual enjoyment of the experience itself.