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Statistics

Books read by month and year:
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
200843366582    37
200732225223343435
2006712109561110633284
200599911121011141081316132
200481113691010105567100
2003243110264277654
200243314355110333
200151524462310235
200055220156477650
199933234255544545
199835553463236651
199752237267554351
1996700126879761063
199548641401135744
*199433333333334438
*199322222222222123
*199233333333332234
 909
Prior to 1992**170
Total1,079
*Averages; not tracked by month until 1995
**Can't remember many of these; if you went to middle school / junior high in the 70s and 80s, please help me remember what we read!


Statistics:
  2004 2005 2006 2007
Total pages 35,395 41,072 24,010 9,490
Mean pages per day 97 113 66 26
Mean pages per book 354 311 286 271
Mean books per month 8.3 11.0 7.0 2.9
Total unique authors 82 120 81 25
Authors new to me 60 103 59 10
Books new to me 99 132 84 35
Story collections 11 40 22 9
Total stories 275 529* 262 102
Translations 14 17 2 2
Pre-1950 books 19 11 6 0
E-books 6 0 0 0
Fiction ratio (fiction/non-fiction) 78/22 111/21 68/16 31/4
Male/female author ratio (m/f) 62/38 96/36 41/43 17/18
Dead author ratio (living/dead) 58/24 99/21 67/17 32/3
*Does NOT include the 100 stories from Decameron or the 200 Calvino Folktales.