I enjoy when people publically track their reading online. Here are some personal sites that I like looking at for their reading. I'm sure there are a million more. If you have one, or if there are any you like, plz lemme know.
And mine is here: /reading
Tom Macwright
- READING RSS
- https://macwright.com/reading/rss.xml
Tom's reading list, to me, is the canonical self hosted online reading list. It was the first I encountered, one I always enjoy seeing new reviews for, and the one I always send to people as a great example of tracking their reading online. Thank you Tom.
Gage Newman
Gage is a homey that I like talking books with. I feel honored that some of the books on his list are ones that I've recommended, so there's some overlap with mine... though... he reads way more than I do!
TheLeo.Zone
- READING RSS
- https://theleo.zone/books/index.xml
The Leo and I are both Recurse Center alumni, and his book reviews would show up in the Recurse Center blog aggragation service, and they were always a highlight for me. He's split the reading out from this service, and it was an instant subscribe for me. We've since met IRL, and his feed has been a great excuse to exchange the occasional message!
Some Bits (Books)
Some Bits has my favorite feature set. Sort by obscurity, "authors I keep reading", comparing his rating against goodreads, slicing, dicing, etc. I don't really have enough logged reading to have all these features - but maybe one day!
curl reading.cailinpitt.com
- GENERAL RSS
- https://cailinpitt.com/feed.xml
- CURL 🤯
- curl https://cailinpitt.com/reading
My favorite thing about this reading list is it has a dedicated curl interface. You can visit the website, sure, but you can also hit it with curl in a terminal, and you get a special TUI back! Very fun. Also note that his is backed by Hardcover.app - a service that looks like a better GoodReads, but who (as of this writing) still doesn't provide RSS.
Derek Sivers
- GENERAL RSS
- https://sive.rs/feed.xml
Derek is basically the GOAT of all things personal website - he's the "inventor" of the /now page, and has all sorts of guides about hosting things yourself, etc. Notably - on his reading page, they're not sorted by recency. Instead, they're sorted by how much he'd recommend them.
