Thank you so much for sharing this! It's so cute and so helpful. I did notice that when I downloaded it as an .ods file, the check-mark feature broke, because Google Sheets and Libre Office use different logic to handle check-marks. I edited it to work natively in Libre Office and added some pages for nonfiction ratings (since I read a lot of nonfiction lol), and I figured I'd share it here in case any other Libre Office users would like to use it without having to sink a couple of hours into Calc!

🔗 Here is a link to a cryptpad.fr page where you can download the .ods file.

🔗 And here is a guide to Libre Office check-boxes, in case anyone ends up wanting to move the check-boxes around or anything.

Many of my favorites have already been mentioned in this thread (or shared in one of the lists here), so I'd like to share about a particular author whose work has been incredibly influential on my life but who I rarely hear others talk about.

Transformative justice and restorative justice (TJ/RJ) have exploded in popularity in the last few years. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for me to hear other anarchists in certain circles speak as if it is a foregone conclusion that TJ/RJ is the whole of "anarchist justice." Virtually every single book or article or resource that I have been recommended myself or seen recommended online on the topic of radical or anarchist justice has been a TJ/RJ text. In my life, I have repeatedly seen TJ/RJ lingo and practices be used to silence victims/survivors, rehabilitate abusers' and rapists' reputations, and maintain the status quo.

Destroy What Destroys You is an essay collection by Lee Cicuta that explores an alternative anarchic vision of intimate authoritarianism, also known as intimate partner violence (IPV), domestic violence (DV), or abuse. Her framework asserts that these forms of violence are not merely violence; they are authoritarianism itself, expressions of the forces of domination and oppression that anarchists define ourselves in opposition to. She examines how liberal non-violence propaganda has played a role in watering down both abolitionism and anti-authoritarianism; how common myths and even bystander questions about abuse reinforce the cultural staying power of intimate authoritarianism; and how intimate authoritarianism is supported by and reproduces all other forms of authoritarianism. I found each of her essays to be clear, compelling, and personally moving.

If you'd like to give her a read, you can download Destroy What Destroys You for free at this link.

In case anyone in this comment section needs help finding an alternative, 🔗Calibre is a free and open source app for managing your ebook library on your own device. I use it every day and highly recommend it! And I am happy to help if anyone has any questions or difficulties getting it installed or using it.

If you've already purchased books from Amazon that you would prefer to read or annotate privately, you can use 🔗this guide to transfer your books from Kindle to Calibre.

If you don't want to switch to a new program but still want to take steps to protect your privacy, it is also possible to poison the data that they are collecting about you. At the end of the day, they do not know you personally and have next-to-no means of verifying the data that they collect. Whether you annotate copyright pages with lies about yourself or manually update Amazon's data on you to be inaccurate (see the links shared by @aoitsuki), you can weaken the utility of their surveillance and waste the money they spent to monitor you.