Tracking read and to-read

In the Thoreau LOA volume, I've read Walden and The Maine Woods, but not A Week and Cape Cod. Does anyone track multiple works in a single volume by "read " and "to-read"?

Here in LT? I have a special collection for cases like that - Bits and Pieces. It’s for novels and collections and so on which I own (or had read) as part of omnibuses. When I start an omnibus, if I am not actively reading it, it goes into the “Started - multiworks” collection until it is read completely and can be moved to Read. Saves me from buying them again (and makes it easier to track what o had actually read as well). :)

I have everything on Excel for that. Yes, I have a problem.
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AnnieMod: Waitasec: are you tellin' me that you DON'T remember every book or short story or poem you've read? (Not being facetious). I've always been under the impression that ALL readers remember EVERY-thing they've read, even if it was read only once. I still retain various lines, and paragraphs; or remember certain things characters (in favorite books) did, or believed, and so on.

Am I the ONLY one?
Say it ain't so!

>4 Truett: I don’t remember what I had for lunch a week ago, how would I remember what story I read 20 years ago, sometimes in a different language. :) Just the other day I reread a novel from a series where I had haphazardly read some early installments and which I had read in 2012 - and it took me awhile to realize I had read it.

Don’t get me wrong - once I start reading I recognize lines and I do remember characters and actions better than story titles - but I am just as likely not to remember that I had read a story or even a novel until I hit a line/scene that triggers my memory. And there are novels and stories and poems I will never forget (and non fiction pieces and comics). But definitely not all of them - not unless I keep track.

>1 thomasczyz: I catalogue omnibuses under the collection "Omnibus". If I haven't read any of the books in that omnibus, the omnibus volume is listed under "To read" as well. Once I've read a book in that omnibus, I remove the whole volume from the 'to read' collection, and list the single book within the omnibus under collection "In omnibus".
Sounds complicated, but basically means any book listed as 'in omnibus' has been read, any omnibus listed under 'to read' hasn't had any of the books in it read yet, and any omnibus that isn't listed as 'to read' has had at least one volume read, which suits me! I don't always intend to read all the books in an omnibus edition anyway, so don't list any book yet to be read in an omnibus as 'to read'. Helps keep the number of 'to read' books down; the collection is well into 4 figures anyway!

I don’t keep an electronic catalog of my books, but I write the month and year that I finished a story next to its entry in the table of contents.

I keep things simple and treat the omnibus as a book on its own and read the entire book before cataloguing it as read. It just makes things simpler. Time is of the essence and I was thinking earlier this morning about a brilliant blog called A Penguin a week - applied to books, even at 50 to 52 books a year it would take 20 years to reach the 1001 books to read before you die. Just keep reading.

I keep track on the review page for the volume here on LT. So I can check and currently have read three of the four novels of Elmore Leonard: Westerns

I track what I've read in each volume in the "comments" field for the book here on LT. I don't tag as done until I've read everything in the volume, however long that takes.

With omnibus volumes (LoA or any others), I only record the volume in the Read Collection once the entire volume has been read. In the meanwhile, as to individual works within the volume (where I don't own a separate copy of that individual work), I do sometimes enter such an individual work in the Read but unowned (or, as appropriate, in the To read or Currently reading) Collection. If I don't own the particular work as an individual volume, though, it won't be included in my Your library collection, which is reserved exclusively for volumes that I actually own.

I might very well own an LoA omnibus (e.g., Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby Dick while also owning an individual title (e.g., Moby Dick (Norton Critical Edition).

BTW >4 Truett: >5 AnnieMod:, I definitely remember the story of Moby Dick but I'm foggy on Redburn and White-Jacket.

Incidentally, that Read but unowned Collection is also useful for books that I once owned but no longer own – for example, books that I include in self-created Given away and Trash Collections). Again, my Your library collection only includes volumes that I currently own.

I'm currently doing some weeding out and I'll likely be self-creating a Sold Collection, which likewise would take a volume out of my Your library Collection.

you can add reading dates in the fields - that's what I do