Free Book Reading Log for Bullet Journal
Welcome to 24-hour interval eight of my #100DaysofBulletJournalIdeas Projection!
24-hour interval viii: Reading Log
The Reading Log
The Reading Log in the form of a bookshelf blew up not long after I reposted this image on Instagram a couple years ago. I had seen it going viral in the Bullet Journal Junkies Facebook Group and plant the earliest example of it on Instagram and reposted it. That said, I don't know who truly originated the thought.
The idea immediately took off and just about everyone fell in honey with information technology as a visual reading log. Makes sense, it's super fun. Yous make the bookshelf and colour in the books one time you've read them. You tin write the title on the book's spine if y'all'd similar, I call up that's what the majority of Bullet Journalists do.
By now, I've seen so many iterations of information technology, information technology's incredible. Here's a simple search of "Bullet Journal Bookshelf" on Pinterest to gander at all the lovely ones out in that location.
As Bullet Journalists, we love all things to practice with notebooks, jotter, and all great things analog. Books are one of those simple pleasures that bring us great joy.
When I'thou immersed in a good volume, I feel refreshed with words that spoke exactly to the things in my heart and mind.
Add together a reading log to your bullet journal to inspire y'all to read more
Here are a few ideas for a Reading Log:
1. A Unproblematic List
two. Columns
January 2016
Here I added a column to check off when I read a book, a column for the title of the book, and a simple rating system. I had initially written 'notes' for the third column so realized that was not enough room, so changed it to a rating system.
Looking at this drove now I realized that I managed to read a few of them! The reason I hadn't checked them off in this collection is considering I get through my Bullet Journals pretty fast so past the time I finished them, I was already in a different Bullet Journal and didn't make a new Reading Log in the adjacent one (that I call back) or make a annotation to remember to check them off in this notebook's drove (as mentioned every bit a possibility with Notebook Threading). That sometimes happens.
The practiced news is that having written downward the books I wanted to read more likely helped me read them considering by writing them downward, I strengthened the memory and intention in my mind to read said volume(s).
3. The title of the book and a simple bar to marker progress
4. A Book & Its Capacity
February 2016
Or in this case for the Illustrated Man, its stories. I loved this type of Reading Log because information technology helped me focus on one book and its capacity at a time. The true reward was in reading the affiliate, merely that extra piffling feeling of achievement that I tracked in my Bullet Journal was fun.
iv. Floating Shelves
April 2017
For this month, I added floating shelves and chosen information technology The Reading Nook.
The idea was to add the books I read each week and color them in, and then I realized that I don't become through multiple books a week. I realized this would work better as a Quarterly Reading Log where I would add together the books I read each quarter on their own shelf. I will probable tweak this a bit farther.
5. The Bookshelf
As mentioned earlier, this is an incredibly popular visual collection and it works!
half-dozen. A Simple List with some sort of book decoration
Story Time
When I was in High School, I found myself taking P.Due east. one summertime so that I would be able to choose an extra elective the following year instead of having to take P.E. during the school year. It was probably the most intense experience I had done up until that point in my life in terms of exercise. We ran once or twice a day at the hottest point of the day every single day of the week. Nosotros strength-trained, kept food logs, and got ridiculous shirt tans.
I loved it, though. Information technology strengthened my mind to push button through the exhaustion of running to keep going, no matter how slowly despite the blazing sun at noon. I fell more deeply in honey with running that summer and discovered a greater interest in health, nutrition, and all things wellbeing. I had always been known to swallow pretty healthily, but that summer I took information technology upon myself to learn as much every bit I possibly could about health, and then I turned to i of my favorite ways to learn: through reading. I read a few books on nutrition that summer with a vigorous schedule I ready for myself each mean solar day.
I would wake up at 5am, read x amount of pages for each volume while taking notes, made breakfast, went for a long run, made luncheon, relaxed and read or hung out with my friends, and and then made dinner. In that location were as well snacks interspersed somewhere forth in that location.
Having that goal of reading x amount of pages each mean solar day worked for me. Every day, I would read for a different corporeality of time simply I always loved taking the time to read.
Writing this out makes me happy because information technology helps me remember how much I grew that summer and how it has long since left an impression in my life and the choices I brand in terms of my health. It besides makes me remember how effective it was to have that goal in mind of reading x amount of pages.
Moral of the story : By dividing the number of pages in a volume into a certain amount of days, say a calendar week or two, you can finer set a goal to read a book within that fourth dimension frame. This is a useful method if your goal is to read a volume every calendar week, or in the span or two weeks, or however your preference.
On Reading Habits
All of these collections are useful because they double as methods to help yous read more than because they're engaging in some level.
That'due south pretty much the whole bargain with Bullet Journaling, right? You're actively engaged with it every step of the way and therefore more closely attuned with everything that goes in information technology and your goals.
Tips to help yous read more
1. If yous desire to read a book per week: Carve up the number of pages in a book by vii and so read that number of pages each day. You can read a flake in the morning and in the evening if that helps. This method also works for dissimilar time frames, such as biweekly, monthly, or all the same your preference.
2. If you're strapped for time: Read for fifteen minutes a day. Anybody reads a page at a different rate, so the pages pull a fast one on might end up taking you a longer fourth dimension than you are able or willing to commit. But everyone can cleave out and prioritize 15 minutes a 24-hour interval to read. Choose more or less time, tell yourself to read for at least ane minute and I'm certain even you just read for ane infinitesimal, you'll experience more accomplished for it.
three. Read at least i page: If you lot find yourself making excuses for any reason or discover your mind distracted but you know y'all desire to read, yous intend to read, you want to option up that book you've been meaning to read but putting off - so simply pick upwards the book and read ane page. Reread paragraphs if your mind wanders, merely read at least one page. This is a trick I use to help me go past all the mental chatter when all I really want to do is to enjoy my volume.
four. Think about your love of reading: What is it almost reading that you enjoy? Once you've answered that question you'll have your own reasons that will fuel your passion for reading. Think about the last volume that left an impression on yous. Some people might say they don't like to read, just I truly believe that it'southward because they haven't found the right book or possibly even the correct method.
v. Read in a unlike fashion: Try listening to books if you haven't. Audible is a wonderful choice. I've read quite a few books this way. It's a marvelous experience listening to someone tell you a story. I highly recommend it if you haven't experienced information technology yet. The best is when you listen to an author narrate their ain volume, such equally Large Magic past Elizabeth Gilbert. It'due south besides a huge treat to listen to talented narrators read books, two of my recent favorites include Dark Thing and The Subtle Fine art of Non Giving A F*ck.
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