Ways to make your library more manageable: Probably contains spelling errors edition (It does) · 2:58pm Apr 2nd, 2016
Ways to make your library more manageable:
1) Sort stories properly by making multiple bookshelves: tracking, read it later, favorites/read, stories I didn't like. This is a good way to keep track of everything *and* if you're too busy to comment on a story or review them, brief titles and descriptions can serve as the more opninon based feedback some writers crave.
2) Only read complete stories/put them in a red it later list. This is a big one: it will cut how much you have to read in half, at the very least! As for those incomplete stories...
3) Put all incomplete stories in tracking so you can read them when they are complete. You can also use this as a place to check in on (read: stalk) stories you want to see completed. (Or you could make a junk drawer for that, who knows)
4) Lost track of that *one* story you were reading in all the vastness of your read it later list? A currently reading bookshelf will help out a lot.
5) If you want others to see what you like and don't like to read, make the bookshelves public. Sometimes people like to browse (read: stalk) other people's libraries.
6) I like to stalk stories.
7) ^ May not be relevent to anything
8) Try to clear out a read it later bookshelf every now and then becuase sometimes you just don't understand how that one Jelly PonyXTirek story got in there. This will make it easy to keep track of what you really want to read and what the weird man in the mask is pointing a gun to your head and demanding you to read (as well as where the money is).
9) Do you really need to read that?
10) If you want to read pretty much all of an author's stories, instead of adding them to your read it later list, give them a follow. If you really think that all or almost all their work is super interesting then they are bound to produce more.
11) Give decent descriptions to your bookshelves. (This stuff takes about ten minuetes, at most people.)
12) And good names. 'Favourites' is just *begging* to be changed.
13) Putting all the stories you didn't like in one place is a good way to explain your downvote without having to comment.
14) You will make Twilight Sparkle a very happy pony.
15) Come up with an interesting yet easy ranking system. (This isn't as hard as it sounds, my bookshelves contain many examples of this.)
16) By sorting stories in such an organized way you will able to get some rather sensible results for each bookshelf rather then a bunch of vague or non-sensical choices for the 'Related Groups' feature if you had just decided to shove everything in the very bland 'Favourites' shelf. That way, you'll be able to find potentially engrossing reads much more easily then if you just stared at the featured box for months.
I think that about covers it for this topic. I'm not even getting obsessive yet. Now, go color code and organize things! Make your libraries manageable!
