# Looking for an Ipod Touch/Iphone app that lets me track books. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836 "2011-11-13T22:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/1 "2011-11-13T22:06:03Z")
I’m a reader, and often more than one book at a time. There have been a number of times that I’ve checked out a book from the library, to discover that at some point in the last 10 years, I’d already read it. Or I forget the name of an author of a book I liked. Can anyone suggest IPod apps that will let let me record title, author, genre and notes about books that I have read or want to read? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/2 "2011-11-13T22:36:34Z")
Not sure if they have an app, but the LibraryThing website is catered to this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/3 "2011-11-13T22:45:45Z")
GoodReads or Book Crawler. Both allow book entry via scanning barcodes, or entering ISBN, or manually. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/4 "2011-11-14T18:47:35Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > GoodReads or Book Crawler. Both allow book entry via scanning barcodes, or entering ISBN, or manually. Thanks for the recommendations. I just tried GoodReads, and it requires that I create an account with them. Is that correct or am I missing something? I don’t want to share booklists. I just want to track my own reading. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/5 "2011-11-14T19:08:25Z")
Yeah, GoodReads is a social site. I think you can make your lists private (?) but they’re stored on their website. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-ipod-touch-iphone-app-that-lets-me-track-books/602836/6 "2011-11-15T17:18:40Z")
Any list-manager software will do the job, I’d think. Basically any of the apps targeted at grocery shopping. Enter your list of books; put the author in another field such as category / aisle, and check it off once you’ve read it. Or put it in the “need” list when you plan to read it, and in the “cart” when you’re done with it.