Stats at 50

Now that the database officially has 50 books posted, I thought it would be fun to throw together some stats to analyze my reading habits for the last 18 months.  I am also using this post as an opportunity to add the new Charts page to the wordpress blog.  It’s basically just the old charts page, but edited and formatted for the main blog.

Note: all the stats below, as well as those on the charts page, are dynamically updated from the database, so regardless of when you read this, know that the information is up to date.

One of the first things that jumps to my mind when I think about my habits since December of 2008 is that I’ve been reading non-stop. But how much have I really been reading? Fortunately, I made an agreement with myself not to read two books at the same time, so by determining the number of days in each month that fall outside of the start and stop dates of a particular read, we can calculate this. The table below shows the breakdown, per month, since I started the book database.

As you can see I do spend a lot of time reading, but in total, I actually only spent 83.4116% of the available days actively reading a book. Or, to put it another way, of the 639 total days available to read, I was not reading during 106 of them. Now it suddenly seems like I could be spending even more time reading than I already am. In fact, that’s like 3.4868 months of additional reading!

Well, I hope you enjoyed that little bit of nerdiness. I’d post more, but my head feels like it’s going to explode. Still, I’m always open for suggestions on additional stats, so let me know if you have any.