Ask HN: How do you plan and track the books you want to read?
I think I have a problem. My want-to-read list on Goodreads currently has more than 2100 books. I probably have more than 50 online classes that I want to take.
I constantly find new things that I want to learn about. I have multiple lists on Goodreads with titles of "Urgent reads" and "The most urgent reads". Things get reprioritized so often that I don't actually end up reading or learning much.
I recently started building syllabuses around different topics for myself to put together relevant things together and then I try to force myself to focus on a single syllabus at a time.
I am experimenting with another system for books. I have a table of books, where when I get excited about a book, I upvote a book. Only after a book is upvoted more than 3 times, I download a sample of the book (if available on Kindle). Only after I read a book, I buy the book. This helped a little, but not enough. Now, I have 10 books that I started reading.
I am curious about how others approach this. What is your framework? How do you self-discipline? Are there any good tools?