Showing posts with label Books in 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books in 2024. Show all posts

Monday, April 01, 2024

The Books I Read - March 2024

Pretty happy with how my reading tracking is going. My spreadsheet has all the data so it's very quick to generate the page, although from some thoughts I've had about game tracking I think I may be able to automate a bunch of this, since generating HTML by hand is not a way to live.

Update: Finished one more book in March, so snuck it into the post..


Stats for March - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12 (36)Pages Read - 4206 (12741)

Authors

Unique Authors: 10 (21)

Author - books read - pages read

Amanda Cross - 1 - 186 (1 - 186)Andrea Penrose - 1 - 387 (3 - 1126)
Anna Lee Huber - 1 - 384 (1 - 384)Ben H. Winters - 1 - 322 (1 - 322)
Charles Todd - 1 - 352 (1 - 352)CLAMP - 2 - 1188 (2- 1188)
Daniel O'Malley - (1 - 688)Deanna Raybourn - 2 - 650 (3 - 996)
Dorothy L. Sayers - 1 - 132 (1 - 132)Elly Griffiths - (8 - 2910)
Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas - 1 - 258 (1 - 258)Ian Rankin - 1 -241 (1 - 241)
Ilona Andrews - (2 - 668)Jacqueline Winspear - (1 - 352)
Katie Mack - (1 - 237)Martha Wells (1 - 424)
Mary Robinette Kowal (3 - 841)Brown, Roediger, McDaniel (1 - 293)
Sherry Thomas - 1 - 364 (1 - 364)Suzette Mayr - (1 - 224)
Vernor Vinge - (1 - 555)

A word cloud of all the authors above. CLAMP is large in the centre, and the others are clustered around in a spiral, roughly in the order I read them.March 2024 Author Cloud


Publication Range

Earliest Book - 1923 (1932)Most Recent Book - 2023 (2023)

Publications by Decades

2020s - 2 (9)2010s - 7 (23)
1990s - (1)1980s - 1 (1)
1960 - 1 (1)1920s - 1 (1)

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 6 (21)Shared with Friends - (1)
My libro.fm Library - 2 (3)My Physical Library - (1)
Audible - (3)Author's Website - (1)
Borrowed From Friend - (1)My Kobo Library - 4 (5)

Formats

Audio Book - 5 (14)eBook - 5 (17)
eBook (Comic) - 2 (2)Blog Post - (1)
Hardcover - (1)

Saturday, March 02, 2024

The Books I Read - February 2024

I've made a few more slight adjustments to my infographic for February and cleaned up a few things that seemed to sneak over from last year. It's still a bit manual, but I have a spreadsheet doing my math now and so I only had to copy stuff and make the updated entries bold. One other change I'm making from last year is that I'm handling multiple authors as a single unit, so you'll see Brown, Roediger, McDaniel as a single unit and if I were to read a hypothetical Brown and Roediger book, they'd be listed as another entry.


Stats for February - (Year to date)

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12 (24)Pages Read - 3793 (8535)

Authors

Unique Authors: 9 (13)

Author - books read - pages read

Andrea Penrose - 1 - 369 (2 - 739)Daniel O'Malley - (1 - 688)
Deanna Raybourn - 1 - 346 (1 - 346)Elly Griffiths - 2 - 703 (8 - 2910)
Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas - 1 - 258 (1 - 258)Ilona Andrews - 1 - 335 (2 - 668)
Jacqueline Winspear - (1 - 352)Katie Mack - (1 - 237)
Martha Wells - 1 - 424 (1 - 424)Mary Robinette Kowal - 3 - 841 (3 - 841)
Brown, Roediger, McDaniel - 1 - 293 (1 - 293)Suzette Mayr - 1 - 224 (1 - 224)
Vernor Vinge - (1 - 555)

A word cloud of all the authors above. Mary Robinette Kowal is large in the centre, Elly Griffiths is large below her and the others are clustered around in a spiral, roughly in the order I read them.February 2024 Author Cloud


Publication Range

Earliest Book - 2013 (1999)Most Recent Book - 2023 (2023)

Publications by Decades

2020s - 5 (7)2010s - 7 (16)
1990s - (1)

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 5 (15)Shared with Friends - 1
My libro.fm Library - 1My Physical Library - 1 (1)
Audible - 3 (3)Author's Website - 1 (1)
Borrowed From Friend - 1 (1)My Kobo Library - 1 (1)

Formats

Audio Book - 4 (9)eBook - 5 (12)
Blog Post - 1 (1)Hardcover - 1 (1)

Friday, February 02, 2024

The Books I Read - January 2024

I enjoyed making the infographic style reading updates in 2023 and I'm continuing on in 2024. I've automated a couple of things in my tracking process, so I'm going to update a little bit about how I track and organize these this year.

One thing I'm adding is a count of "pages". I'm trying to keep them kind of even between books so I'm taking the "Kindle Edition" page count for each book. (Although my brain does not like the fact that Daniel O'Malley's Blitz is *longer* than Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky"). I'm using the page count for the weights for the Author infographic, but I'm not sure that does a great job of balancing all the authors. Katie Mack seems at a huge disadvantage.


Stats for January

Reading Stats

Books Read - 12Pages Read - 4742

Authors - 12 (50)

Author - books read - pages read

Andrea Penrose - 1 - 370Daniel O'Malley - 1 - 688
Elly Griffiths - 6 - 2207Ilona Andrews - 1 - 333
Jacqueline Winspear - 1 - 352Katie Mack - 1 - 237
Vernor Vinge - 1 - 555

A word cloud of all the authors above. Elly Griffiths is very large in the centre and the others are clustered around in roughly the order I read them.January 2024 Author Cloud


Publication Range

Earliest Book - 1999Most Recent Book - 2023

Publications by Decades

2020s - 22010s - 9
1990s - 1

Source

Borrowed From Public Library - 10Shared with Friends - 1
My libro.fm Library - 1

Formats

Audio Book - 5eBook - 7

Reading

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