Towards More and Conscientious Consumption
Published on: Aug 28, 2025Filed under: Media
I’ve long held that, by weight, most of my possessions are media. Books, albums, games, records - for someone who has an aversion to buying ‘stuff,’ I am quite quick to add another book or film or game to my stack.
Several years ago (2021 according to my log) I started tracking the books I read as to encourage myself to read more. This year, I started doing the same with films. Instead of merely keeping a list of them, I would also reflect on the film either during or after watching it - though in private rather than in the competitive snark pits of Leterboxd [1]. These reviews were for me - asking myself to sit with a film and think about it for entire minutes.
Additionally, the closet where I store all of my films [+]Affectionately referred to by no one as the Bradterion Collection made it difficult to track of what I own and surface patterns and observations. So instead of trying to maintain a spreadsheet within OneNote, I created a new movie app on my site where I can track my collection, review what I watch, and generate some stats.
It's still a work in progress, so I won't be adding to my navigation for a while. But building it was a good experience and I have an idea about doing a slightly larger one for vinyl.