Now that 2007 is over I can post all the stats I kept regarding my reading habits of the past 365 days. In 2007 I kept more detailed records so I’m just just relating “here’s the number of books I read”. The stats for 2007 are:
Number of books read: 150, of those…
Print books: 81
Printed pages: 25826
eBooks: 3
Audiobooks: 52
Fiction: 126
Non Fiction: 24
Graphic Novels: 14
Male authors: 147
Female authors: 16
A few notes on these numbers. The total number of authors will be higher than the total number of books since some books had multiple authors. These numbers do not include magazines and non-fiction articles. Also, I consider audiobooks “reading” though they can’t be included in the page count.
Lastly, I’m totally surprised at the very low number of female authors that make up my reading habits. It isn’t intentional but this is the first year I’ve tracked author gender so I don’t know if it’s typical or not.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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4 Replies to “2007 Reading Statistics”
Okay, I’m no math wizard, but how can you have read 150 books yet the number of PRINT books read alone is 164? What’s wrong with this stat?
I don’t understand one of your stats: Number of books = 150 Number of Print books = 164 Number of ebooks = 3 Number of audiobooks = 52 That looks more like a total number of books of 219.
You’ve inspired my 2008 New Year Resolution.
I’m also curious about how the relative numbers in each format compares with that relation in our library holdings. What are our circ proportions of those media?
Thanks Rosario, there does seem to be a typo in there somewhere. I’ll check when I got home tonight and find/fix the mistake.
I consciously choose women authors, especially in fiction. Perhaps you subconsciously deselect.
Okay, I’m no math wizard, but how can you have read 150 books yet the number of PRINT books read alone is 164? What’s wrong with this stat?
I don’t understand one of your stats:
Number of books = 150
Number of Print books = 164
Number of ebooks = 3
Number of audiobooks = 52
That looks more like a total number of books of 219.
You’ve inspired my 2008 New Year Resolution.
I’m also curious about how the relative numbers in each format compares with that relation in our library holdings. What are our circ proportions of those media?
Thanks Rosario, there does seem to be a typo in there somewhere. I’ll check when I got home tonight and find/fix the mistake.
I consciously choose women authors, especially in fiction. Perhaps you subconsciously deselect.