As promised, here’s the list of the most recently read hundred books, this time broken down into ten book bite-sized pieces. For each tenner of books, I’ve provided brief notes on one representative volume. To repeat, I’ve only counted non-comic books towards my number of books read, so the ‘#’ field in the below table …
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200 Books Update: What Happened
As I said yesterday, the discovery of a missing datum threw some of the conclusions of recent posts into doubt. As of now I have updated those posts with correct information. The affected posts are listed below: 200 Books (Not really) 200 Books Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books All of these posts have been amended …
201 Books! (This Changes Everything)
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Previous post(s) about reading 200 books have errors. Please disregard. More details follow, with more to come. Well, that just shows that data analysis is only as good (at best) as the underlying data… Whilst scrubbing data in my books database — which is something I do, and you should do it …
Analysis: The 2nd Hundred Books [UPDATED]
NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post. As I just mentioned, I recently finished reading 200 books, counting from when I …
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200 Books [UPDATED]
NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post. This morning (Actually I reached the noted milestone six days earlier, on June 21.) …
200 Books (Not really) [UPDATED]
NOTE: Due to recently (5 July 2018) discovered errors in underlying data, some statements in this post are incorrect. The original post is preserved, with new corrected information presented in monospace font. More information can be found in this blog post. Yesterday I finished my 200th book since recording such info starting in June of …
100 Books
(or, The Pointlessness of Data) As promised earlier, I return to announce that I have now read 100 books — according to the database I keep of my books. When previously i made such announcement, I had to express three caveats, to wit: The ‘books’ referred to previously included graphic novels and comics, which perhaps …
100 Books (Not Really)
On Tuesday, June 21st, I apparently finished my hundredth book since I began recording the same just over a year ago. Of course, this is only a seeming fact, for multiple reasons. Imprimus, this “100 books” total includes comics and graphic novels, which cannot really have the same literary ‘weight’ (not to say ‘mass’) as …