Hard SF discussion

When I began re-reading The Forever War, I went to Goodreads to put it on my "currently reading" shelf. I found that when I joined Goodreads I'd included that in the books I'd previously read. I was reluctant to change the bookshelf from "read" to "currently reading", although I'm not sure I have a rational reason for not doing so. Perhaps, if I did that, Goodreads would delete the rating I'd previously given the book, but maybe it makes sense to replace an old rating with a new rating. At least in this case, I don't have a previous review that might be lost...

What have the rest of you done in this situation? Do you know what Goodreads does? Would it make sense for Goodreads to have a "re-reading" shelf?

You can create as many shelves (or tags, whatever you want to call them) in Goodreads. There's also a "Number of times I've read this book" field in your review for any given book.

I made my own shelf,Re-Reading,and tick that one AND Currently Reading as I'm doing now by re reading 2001.

I've been going through my shelves one book at a time as well as eBooks.

Currently re-reading a collection of Howard's Cormac novellas in paperback and John Bowers' Fighter Queen series in digital version.

It's been so long on the Cormac collection that it feels like I'm reading it for the first time.

I read the Fighter Queen saga last year, so it's fairly familiar (but still totally exciting).

I created a bookshelf for the books I read and reread, like Dune I can read that anytime, go in and out of it diving in at different places. There are a few books that I just don't mind even when I know the story. Don't do that as much anymore as I just don't have room at home for a lot of books.

Larry wrote: "I created a bookshelf for the books I read and reread, like Dune I can read that anytime, go in and out of it diving in at different places. There are a few books that I just don't mind even when I..."

My entire bookshelf(s) is a "re-read" thing. If it's not worth re-reading, I trade it off for something new at the used books traders (2 for 1).

Actually, I'm out of shelf space, so I can't acquire anything new until I get rid of something old (except eBooks of course).

I kinda do that. If I feel the book is just ok I list it on bookmooch.com so someone else can read it.