Learn MoreBookTrackr is a members only feature that allows you to customize Worlds Without End to reflect your reading history. Want to read all the Hugo or Nebula award winners? How about all the award winning books from 1987? What about the best books by your favorite authors? BookTrackr will show you which ones you've already read and which ones you've missed.
Check out the Administrator's List to see BookTrackr in action.
Click here to join if you're not already a member. It's quick and easy and it's free! If you're already a member you will need to log in.
How Do I Use BookTrackr?
Once you've joined and/or logged in, follow these steps to get tracking!
Step 1 - Find Some Books
Peruse the WWEnd site and find the books you're interested in. They can be books you've already read or books you want to read. Use the search if you have a title or author in mind or just browse through the awards listings to find some. You can also look through the author or publisher pages to find books.
Step 2 - Tag the Books You've Found
When you locate a book you want to tag, click the title or cover graphic to go to that novel's profile page. On the novel page you'll find the BookTrackr section under the book details. This only displays for members who are currently logged in. Use the BookTrackr form to tag the novel in any way you want:
- My History - Mark it as Read, Reading or the default Not Read.
- My Rating - Rate the book from 1-10.
- My Sub-Genre Tags - Select up to 3 different sub-genres that you think accurately represent that book. The top three selections from all users will appear in the information section for that book and form the basis for our sub-genre searching.
- My Book Lists - Add the book to your Reading or Favorites Lists. These lists appear in your My World page.
- My Notes - Use the My Notes section to record info for yourself, that nobody else will see, like who recommended the book to you or even who you've loaned your copy out to!
- My Review - Use this section to submit a review. Share your opinions, good or bad, about the book with the rest of the WWEnd community. You can mark it as private if you're not ready to share your review just yet. There's even a style guide to help you format your review.
When you're finished tagging the book be sure to click the Submit button to save your changes.
Do this for all the books you want to track. It's a bit time consuming up front, especially if you've read a lot of books, but once your initial tagging is complete it's easy to maintain.
Step 3 - View the Results
As you go, you'll notice BookTrackr color coding your tagged books. Anywhere that a book appears, on the awards listings, author pages, publisher pages etc., it will be color coded according to the BookTrackr Legend in the right column.
The results will show you all kinds of things about your reading history like how many Hugo winners you've read, which of the classics you've missed, which years you were most actively reading and so on.
Your My World page has all your lists for easy reference. Favorite SF books, favortie fantasy books, your reading list and your favorite authors list. There's even a complete list of all the books you've tagged as read. You can share those lists with friends and other WWEnd members too. You don't have to be logged in to see the lists so you can link to them from your own web site.
To check out other people's lists, just click on their member avatars in the forum and elsewhere to see their My World page. On the novel page you can see who else tagged the same book and what they rated it in the Member Rating section.