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Three things

EARLIER THIS YEAR, I VOWED TO reform my reading tracking, which, as longtime readers may remember, previously only existed in a high-tech system called “A Really Long List in an Untitled Draft Email.” No, no, this would not do, I decided. Ten years of helter-skelter lists were enough. It was time to get serious.

It was time for a Google Spreadsheet.

Oh, what a beautiful color-coded world my read books now live in. There are pie charts

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