Veracohr Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I've been pretty bored lately, so to amuse myself I made a spreadsheet of all my books and made some super-awesome charts from it! I noted author, year published, format, whether it's a single book, part of a series, or a collection containing multiple stories, and two genres for each. The genre part took some serious thought, it was a little hard in some cases to limit genres to two. I also sometimes changed my original genre names so I could group more titles together.I excluded comic books, books of sheet music, as well as a small stack I've been meaning to get rid of but haven't gotten around to yet. Also excluded a couple of duplicates, which I have by accident, and dictionaries.A few volumes I have contain multiple books that were originally published individually. I counted those titles individually. Collections of short stories are counted as one book. While going through everything, I was irritated to discover I'm missing a few books I know I used to have! Total number of titles: 247 (total number of volumes: 241)Top genres: Fantasy (32.8%), Science Fiction (13.4%), Spirituality (10.9%)Top authors: Stephen King (8.9%), Orson Scott Card (6.5%), Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman (6.1%)Range of publication: 500 B.C. - 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JISNEGRO Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Very nice it gives you some insights about your reading habits. It would be interesting to do the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 A lot of those, especially in the spiritual types, I've had for 15-20 years, but I'm not into the subject any more. With a few exceptions, I don't like to ever get rid of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komix Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 There's nice site for cataloguing books online librarything.com . I'm using it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 There's nice site for cataloguing books online librarything.com . I'm using it I'm using that one too! Care to share your account? I like to sneak through people's collections and see what they like. Here's mine: www.librarything.com/profile/Stampfi-Gang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 That kind of thing seems like a thinly-veiled source database for targeted advertising/spamming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 No Lovecraft or others from the Lovecraft circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted September 14, 2014 Author Share Posted September 14, 2014 Well I have one of the books published as the "Necronomicon", the name of which Lovecraft invented. That almost counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panoptes Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 crazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 That kind of thing seems like a thinly-veiled source database for targeted advertising/spamming. I'm registered for quite a while and as far as I can tell I haven't noticed more spam in my mail. Imho amazon and google are worse and also no stuff linked to the books I add there (I do see personalized adds after ordering stuff form amazon so I think I would be able to notice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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