I should have planned that better, I was reading chapters 2010-12 around midnight on New Year's eve so could have arranged for the total to be equal to the value of the year (well, it would have appealed to me even if nobody else).
The chapters came from 134 different books (99 if you count The Bible as one book instead of many) of which I finished 104. In my worst month, July, I only managed only 23% of what I should have read whilst in the busiest, December, I managed 230% which creates a pleasing sort of symmetry.
The original driver for the targets was the aim to read more of The Bible because, being a Christian, I ought to read more of it. I'll keep that chapter a day Bible target going into 2011, at that rate I'll have read the whole thing by sometime in 2013, but I'm going to drop the others. It was fun for a year but it did mean that sometimes I was actually giving up on books (or avoiding starting them) because the chapters were too long. I suppose that ought to teach me something about how to set targets.
| Bible | Work | Fun | Serious | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target, chapters per day | 1 | 0.5 | 4 | 0.5 |
| Target, total to date | 365 | 182.5 | 1460 | 182.5 |
| Actual, total to date | 366 | 186 | 1460 | 183 |
| Progress | 100% | 102% | 100% | 100% |
| Number of different books | 36 | 24 | 59 | 15 |
And thanks to Mo for the title suggestion...
2 comments:
I want proper stats. What books did you read? Which ones did you like best? What authors did you read for the first time?
Heh, when I saw this post coming up in my reader I was thinking "what a good title!" Life can be full of pleasant surprises when you're very forgetful.
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