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Books Read 2019 Summary
Dec. 31st, 2019 09:57 pmI read 203 books in 2019, ranging from 120 page novellae to more than a million words of Worm (counted as one book) and another million words of a Worm fanfic (also counted as one book.) I read several comics and webcomics in groupings large enough to count as a book (usually six months at a time). I reread some books.
If I only got a few chapters into a book, I didn't count it. If I nearly finished it but gave up more than 3/4 through, I counted it. I read several books in the process of being published -- oh, including one I didn't count above. 204, then.
I read some terribly derivative professionally-published books, and some blazingly original self-pub.
It was almost all SF -- a little science, history, biography and autobio. To a first approximation, it was all electronic. I read on my phone, I read on my tablet, and I occasionally read on a giant monitor attached to my desktop computer -- comics are really good that way.
From time to time I felt oddly competitive about what I was reading. I don't like that much. On the other hand, I think this was a fairly normal year for me. 204 books in 365 days is 0.56 books a day. I read more on weekends than on weekdays. I read more on weekdays when I go into the office than when I work from home -- I read on the commute.
I'm not going to repeat this experiment in 2020, but I will mention particularly good and particularly bad books that I read.
If you want to see the whole collection for some reason, it begins here:
https://dsrtao.dreamwidth.org/670911.html
and nearly every dreamwidth entry I've made this year has been on-topic.
If I only got a few chapters into a book, I didn't count it. If I nearly finished it but gave up more than 3/4 through, I counted it. I read several books in the process of being published -- oh, including one I didn't count above. 204, then.
I read some terribly derivative professionally-published books, and some blazingly original self-pub.
It was almost all SF -- a little science, history, biography and autobio. To a first approximation, it was all electronic. I read on my phone, I read on my tablet, and I occasionally read on a giant monitor attached to my desktop computer -- comics are really good that way.
From time to time I felt oddly competitive about what I was reading. I don't like that much. On the other hand, I think this was a fairly normal year for me. 204 books in 365 days is 0.56 books a day. I read more on weekends than on weekdays. I read more on weekdays when I go into the office than when I work from home -- I read on the commute.
I'm not going to repeat this experiment in 2020, but I will mention particularly good and particularly bad books that I read.
If you want to see the whole collection for some reason, it begins here:
https://dsrtao.dreamwidth.org/670911.html
and nearly every dreamwidth entry I've made this year has been on-topic.
