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This is really nifty. It also shows how disparately people read. No doubt because every year there are thousands of new titles. The top non-fiction book has 8
by sien 3y ago
This is really nifty.
It also shows how disparately people read. No doubt because every year there are thousands of new titles.
The top non-fiction book has 8 readers from 1200.
If you asked 1200 people what TV shows they had been watching there would be much more overlap.
- rplnt 3y agoThere's orders of magnitude less TV shows than books. But yes, they are usually more viral as well.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoBut they only get to pick 3. Also people are unlikely to watch old TV compared to read old books. I bet if you asked about music you would get even less agreement.
- bwb 3y agoThank you :) This is the first year I've done this, and I was surprised at how widely authors reads. I had expected authors to read wider than most readers but visualizing it still surprised me. I've still got ~250 authors votes to add to the system in the next few weeks. What I am very curious to graph in 20224 when I do this, is how many of the books published in 2023 show up at the "most read books in 2024". IE, how long does it take for those to pop? For 2024 I am hoping to 2x to 3x how many authors take part. And I am looking at possibly adding reader votes as well but with a very different format. I need to see if I have enough money to be able to build that this year as that has some tech challenges.