For every book you can maintain the following fields: title - author - Read (When Where?) Date - Quantity - Genre - book or audio book - Notes / Quotes - Rating System (points 1-6) - gifted by / discovered by - Given away on
After the 156 pages followed by a note part. There is first of all free pages with the categories Reading, Offer, Awarded / borrowed and an arbitrary category. This is followed by an AZ register, where you can sort the books (with author, title, page) in order to find them as quickly in the Journal again can.
Rounding out the whole by a pocket at the end of the journal, in which you can store small items and a sticker set for writing the journal (eg a sticker for the back of the journal, in which it can be held, for how long this journal includes books.
What I really like about the Reading Journal:
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* The quality of Moleskine book cover is great and looks classy.
* The reading diary is sealed with a rubber band and has a ribbon bookmark.
* The pages for the 156 books are not literate, so it does not matter if you read 30 books whose titles all begin with an "S". Ex Libris - The Private Journal reading is very flexible.
* Many important basic data of books are included as fields.
* The space for comments / quotes is quite enough for me.
* The note section provides plenty of space for additional comments.
* The stickers are very useful as you can see, for example, already the spine thus, from which time the journal and thus comes with several reading diaries track does not lose.
Verbesserungswünnsche for the new edition:
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* Books and Audiobooks should be supplemented by eBooks.
* The sides are too thin, the risk that while writing something by pushing (particularly colorful glitter pens, pens, etc.) is incredibly large.
* For the memo part I would have wished not so rigid division (reading, give away, Awarded / loan) because I can not begin with something all categories. I would have preferred if all the categories would have been arbitrary, either to label themselves or with included stickers for the different options.
* I would like to seen as an additional field, the page number, because I think it's always interesting in books.
* A small box on every page, in which you could glue a small expression of the respective cover, would be desirable, as I always like to see the album art.
Conclusion: If you feel like it has to hold his books consumption, which has given me the Ex Libris Reading Journal a great, high-quality way to do this. The only thing that really bothers me are these thin pages, because who the "work" makes itself to record all the books and maintain the sides who wants certainly times more creative and due to the thin sides could draw then highest on crayons , everything else would press. Therefore, I forgive 4/5 stars.
