{"id":3070,"date":"2020-10-11T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2020-10-11T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:08:35","slug":"600-books-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"600 Books (not really)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This book made me cry for democracy. In both the transitive and intransitive senses.<\/p>\n

Since I first began tracking my reading after getting all of my books catalogued in a database a little over five years ago, I have treated comics and graphic novels almost as bastard stepchildren, not counting them fully in my ‘Books Read’ statistics. I did, however, note whenever I read such ‘books’, and indeed they are sometimes weighty tomes in their own right, whether we’re discussing Watchmen<\/em> or the lamentable Kingdom Come<\/em>. As well, as I said the last time I passed the sur-fictive milestone of 500 Books (not really)<\/a>, I have read plenty of short and very short non-comic books that may tend to inflate the book count. But: No matter. I continue to distinguish my ‘Books Read’ by giving precedence to the non-comics I complete, both because I feel it important to maintain the same statistical methodologies I started with (in which regard, see the problems I had to face when changing underlying data slicing for music listened to<\/a>), and also because I like it this way. I also have begun tracking total pages read, though I rarely (if ever) report this statistic\u2014one reason being that I do not have the data for the earliest books read, thus causing the very type of data distortion I seek to avoid by changing methodologies now.<\/p>\n

Ahem. All this is mere prologue to announcing that the 600th book I’ve read of all types<\/em> since beginning the count back in June of 2015 is Voting Is Your Super Power!<\/em>, a truly wonderful compilation from that fantastic comics compiler, Craig Yoe. In this small volume (just over a hundred pages) are found reprints of several ‘citizenship’ comics made for one purpose or another, all with the same message: Voting is important! Along with some wrenching panels from cartoonists as different as Herblock and Winsor McCay, and an introduction by Julie Newmar [!], this book left this reader with tears of pride for the best parts of patriotism. Plus, the comics are great.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have not forgotten that I owe y’all an analysis and a list of the last hundred books I read up to #500 (using the non-comics counting method, the EBITA\u2014that is, Everything But Illustrated Tomes Analysis). And I’m getting to that just as soon as I finish a little side project. Of course, the comic book collection I just read doesn’t have an official ‘Book Read’ number, but the next book I finished (and the most recent) was The DAW Science Fiction Reader, which was book #528 read\u2014meaning I’m on a blistering pace and better get that analysis finished, eh? See you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book made me cry for democracy. In both the transitive and intransitive senses. Since I first began tracking my reading after getting all of my books catalogued in a database a little over five years ago, I have treated comics and graphic novels almost as bastard stepchildren, not counting them fully in my ‘Books … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “600 Books (not really)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}