Well, the title says it all. I am still around and not doing much of anything. I am still reading for the most part, but not as much as before. To date, I finished reading 32 books for the year and listen to another 26 audio-books. Needless to say, the bulk of the books were non-fiction, 46 of them total.
I joined GoodReads (https://www.goodreads.com/) a while back (mid or late 2016) to start keeping track of what books I have read, or listen to, over time. I also use it to keep track of how many books I have read each year. As I started keeping track of what books I read on this blog back in 2014, I was able to back date them as well. The only bad thing is that for my 'pages read' count, I can't separate my actual reading vs. my audio books without dating when I listened to them. It really does mean much, but I like to see some times how many pages I read over a period of time. Example is that currently it is showing that I read 13,635 pages for the year, but I only read 7,324 pages and the rest were from my audio-books.
I was also able to go back and marked "read" for all of the books that I could remember reading over all of my years. I am shocked that I have read 693 books over my life. I know that there is at least one book that I read which is not included in that number as I can't remember the title, which is okay since it was horrible (I still remember that). I am sure that there maybe a few others that I have forgotten over time too. Also, I was shocked to see about 38% of the books I read over time were fiction. That is a higher percentage than what I thought it would be. But looking back, I did read a lot of fiction in my pre-teens and teen years, mostly for school. I have also listen to a lot of fiction audio-books because of the voice acting as I love radio plays and these are close to that.
If anyone else is on GoodReads and wants to look me up to see what I have been reading, I will be under "Joe Collins" with my dapper Gentoo penguin avatar. Just let me know that you are asking for a "Friends" request in my comments section below so I know who is sending it. If I don't, I will not "Friend" you on GoodReads. Sorry, I am a little bit protective.
Be seeing you
Sapper
No idea how many books I've read in total... no idea how I'd go about trying to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI'll look up this good reads too.
Cheers,
Pete.