Time To Completion: at 300 Books

As previously mentioned, I want to focus upon a statistic first surfaced at the conclusion of my note explaining a data issue which messed up the analysis of my previous hundred books read. At that time I noted that at the then-current pace of 4.58 books per day I would need 106.5 years to complete …

Music Methodology Migration

or, Minuscule Mind Misses Mark, Mixing Music Movies More, Must Ameliorate Material Maintenance I must rescind my previous note that I had listened to 110K iTunes items, as I have discovered methodological problems which can no longer go unchallenged. I found the problems — or rather, found the problems to be intractable — whilst preparing …

Analysis: The 3rd Hundred Books

or, More Findings of No Ultimate Interest As I said last week, I have now read 300 books of my collection since I started tracking my reading back in June 2015. Now follows a shallow analysis of the books in this last hundred books, eschewing (mostly) reference to books in the “Comics & Graphic Novel” …

200 Books: The List

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 …

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 …