And listening – yes, I count audiobooks as books; who doesn’t?

I did aim for a book a day. I read 424 for the year but my stats break down like this:

Rating	number
5 stars  – amazing	58
4 stars – really liked it	156
3 stars – liked it	96
2 stars – it was okay	61
1 star- did not like it	18
Did not finish	35
total	424

 

If you take out the dnf’s then I still make a total of 389, so I count that as above my target of 365. I have a giant Scrivener file that holds all my reviews. I even have a separate folder for boxed sets. I try to keep track of whether I’ve finished a whole box set. I have an estimated 180 of them. I also count a humble bundle as a ‘set’.

My cute Goodreads graphic looks like this:

… but it’s wrong.

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection of four novels and five short story collections – which I counted as ONE book – had 2,435 pages. And it clearly hasn’t counted it. I feel cheated.

If I had less works, I’d check the page total as well, but I can’t be bothered. And it counts audiobooks as none or single figures. See Charles Paris on the 1 page side? That book has 196 pages, but it’s been turned into a radio play and who knows how many pages that becomes after editing. More than one, at any rate. Plus, I read a few epic fantasy and they are always bigger than a thousand pages.

Goodreads, you are flawed.

It averages out at 182 pages per title. *shrugs*

I suppose it works out, as I do break boxed sets up into single titles, so that I can review each one. It’s hard to give a mark to a set that has varied works in it. Do you average them? That seems unfair to the good titles. You see my problem.

This year, I discovered library audio and ebook borrowing. Very dangerous indeed.

For 2018 I’ve set the target as 365 again.