Reader’s Diary

“The Book Inscriptions Project” blogs book inscriptions.  As their “about” page says:

We collect personal messages written in ink (or pen or marker or crayon or grape jelly) inside books.
Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better.

Check it out.

You can now follow Reader’s Diary on Twitter.   Each new post generates a tweet.

And you can now order books from Amazon via the “Order this book from Amazon.com” link after each review post.

Reader’s Diary is now available for the Kindle.  Click here to order (includes free delivery via Amazon Whispernet).

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Today is the eighth birthday of Reader’s Diary.   The previous review is the 500th book review I’ve written in that time.  That’s 62.5 books a year almost evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction.

Reader’s Diary is probably the longest-lived unread blog on the Web, though at times the readership has jumped to as many as a half dozen.   It’s a good thing that popularity wasn’t my aim.   Reader’s Diary has achieved its goal, which is to help me keep track of the books I’ve read and to give me a way to exercise my atrophied writing skills.  Its unintended effect has been to make me a more thoughtful reader, one more conscious of the writer’s craft.  I’ve benefited from the effort I’ve put into it.

Kudos to Jessica Livingston, author of “Founders at Work” for noting that some of the information in her book was in error.  See my  updated review for details.