Reading records
Jan. 20th, 2023 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkI should probably do a wrap-up of how many books I've read per year at the end of each year, but I guess I'll just start keeping a record now for the past couple of years.
2018: 33 books read + 8 DNF
So...yep, I generally read at least 50% of books per year on audio. Some of them, I'd read physically if audio weren't available, but some of them I wouldn't.
2018: 33 books read + 8 DNF
2019: 42 books read + 4 DNF
2020: 48 books read + 3 DNF
2021: 60 books read + 18 DNF
2022: 56 books read + 10 DNF
It's hard to have accurate numbers for 2015 - 2017 since, during that time, I was reading a lot of indie romance novels and not really keeping track of them via Goodreads. DNF numbers are also an approximation, since I'll DNF a LOT of books in any given year (I try not to count the books I stop reading after only the first/second chapter unless there was something that particularly made me upset).
I started listening to audiobooks in 2019, and I really credit that for my increase in number of books I read per year. (Maybe I should do a break down of audio vs. print/ebook reading one day...maybe. I can definitely say that I'll almost always choose to listen to a book on audio vs. reading if both options are available for me.)
I feel like my number of books read per year may come down going forward because I may not be reading as much backlog/as many older releases. In 2019 and 2020, I was going through a lot of Agatha Christie books, and in 2021, I went through a thriller reading phase, and also read the whole Murderbot series. But who knows!
Currently, though, I'm in a bit of a reading slump. I'm hoping to find a good book coming out in the next few months, but right now, I'm languishing in "nothing is piquing my interest" land, for what feels like the first time in three years. Sigh.
*EDIT: Okay, I was curious and decided to do an audio vs. print/ebook breakdown. The numbers are estimates since, for some titles, I legitimately couldn't remember whether I listened to or read them.
2020: 32 audio / 17 print/ebook
2021: 31 audio / 29 print/ebook
2022: 33 audio / 23 print/ebookIt's hard to have accurate numbers for 2015 - 2017 since, during that time, I was reading a lot of indie romance novels and not really keeping track of them via Goodreads. DNF numbers are also an approximation, since I'll DNF a LOT of books in any given year (I try not to count the books I stop reading after only the first/second chapter unless there was something that particularly made me upset).
I started listening to audiobooks in 2019, and I really credit that for my increase in number of books I read per year. (Maybe I should do a break down of audio vs. print/ebook reading one day...maybe. I can definitely say that I'll almost always choose to listen to a book on audio vs. reading if both options are available for me.)
I feel like my number of books read per year may come down going forward because I may not be reading as much backlog/as many older releases. In 2019 and 2020, I was going through a lot of Agatha Christie books, and in 2021, I went through a thriller reading phase, and also read the whole Murderbot series. But who knows!
Currently, though, I'm in a bit of a reading slump. I'm hoping to find a good book coming out in the next few months, but right now, I'm languishing in "nothing is piquing my interest" land, for what feels like the first time in three years. Sigh.
*EDIT: Okay, I was curious and decided to do an audio vs. print/ebook breakdown. The numbers are estimates since, for some titles, I legitimately couldn't remember whether I listened to or read them.
2020: 32 audio / 17 print/ebook
2021: 31 audio / 29 print/ebook
So...yep, I generally read at least 50% of books per year on audio. Some of them, I'd read physically if audio weren't available, but some of them I wouldn't.
