Abstract. This paper discusses options for tracking academic reading material and introduces a personal digital library solution. We combined and extended the open source projects Zotero and Greenstone such that material can be easily downloaded and ingested into the combined system. Our prototype system has been explored in a small user study. IntroductionResearchers have to keep track of an increasing number of electronic publications. Not all articles and papers are read immediately, and keeping track of one's reading list is not straightforward [4]. Once a text has been evaluated, read or identified to be read later, many researcher instigate their own routine for managing the process of recording and remembering the context, location and identified need for that book or article. This paper is our first investigation into how to manage this problem for eReading environments. We report on a project that aimed to identify the issues academics encounter as they keep track of their reading material, and a software solution to support this process. We explored popular citation management software systems and rather than devising a completely new system, we instead re-use and extend available systems (the two open source projects Zotero and Greenstone) to form a personal digital library system for tracking digital reading material. The resulting prototype was evaluated in a small-scale user study. User studyThe study investigated the kinds of reading materials that students and academics keep track of, as well as the software or methods they use for tracking. Each participant answered questions in a questionnaire and an interview. Twenty people participated (14 male/6 female; 2 under 29, 10 under 39, 5 under 48 and three 48 and over; 14 students/6 academics; 13 from IT and 7 from other academic fields). All were highly experienced with computers (>10 years) and 18 used computers more than 4 hours each day. In our evaluation here we focus on academic reading.Reading material. 14 participants indicated that academic reading occupies about 66% to 85% of their reading materials, for two it is more and for the other four it is less. For 15 participants, more than 60% of their reading is articles and conference papers (>80% for 9 of these), and all 20 rea about 20% are books and theses. 18 of 20 read articles and papers wholly or predominantly in electronic form, and 14 read books predominantly as hardcopies. The remainder of academic reading is largely done electronically.Tracking intention. None of the participants were interested in tracking which nonacademic reading they had done or were currently engaged in, but only the reading they wished to do in future. For academic reading, all participants were interested in tracking what they will read and what they had read; 10 wish to track their current reading. All participants keep copies of electronic materials on their computers, and 10 print the materials in various circumstances. All participants noted that they tend to track their academic digital materials only wh...