reading spreadsheets

I'll do a proper book round-up for December and the rest of 2013 later, but I've been setting up my Reading 2014 spreadsheets, which have considerably more subdivisions this year: Books, Audiobooks, Comics, and Articles. I've got seven holdovers from 2013, five books and two audiobooks, and bizarrely, all the books have authors whose names start with M, either first or last: Mercedes (Lackey, twice), Max (Gladstone), (John Jackson) Miller, Martha (Wells), and (James) Mallory (cowritten with Mercedes Lackey). STRANGE. Mysterious.

I had a question about my spreadsheets earlier that I forgot to answer, so a quick rundown:

( I have no idea if these are proper spreadsheets or not )

So that's my reasonably nerdy reading spreadsheet explanation. In my experience, nothing makes people's eyes glaze over faster than telling them you keep color-coded spreadsheets of what you're reading, but hopefully it's of interest to someone!

There may be easier ways to do this, but I actually have no idea how to use Excel, so I'm basically making it up as I go.