The trend of reading primarily eBooks has continued, although I did listen to more audio books this year than in any year previous. <\/p>\n
You’ll also notice that I did a lot of re-reading this year. The past year was difficult for me mentally, so I did a lot of comfort reading–reaching for those books I already know I love to escape my brain.<\/p>\n
The multiple formats simply means that I own the book in more than one format–most commonly I owned a mass market paperback and then got the same book in electronic format, but audio books also count. Especially since I rarely listen to a fiction book I haven’t already read.<\/p>\n
The multiple formats was lower than I might have expected, because a lot of the books I was looking for were available from the library as ebooks or audio books. (There are weird gaps in what the library has though.)<\/p>\n
eBook: 179
\nAudio: 30
\nTrade Paperback: 18
\nPaperback: 3
\nHardback: 0
\nMultiple Formats: 48
\nRe-read: 128<\/p>\n
I like this chart because you can see precisely when I got an eReader, and exactly how that changed my reading habits. <\/p>\n I also think that kindle and the ability to read the same book across devices has helped increase the number of books I’ve read, since any time I have any kind of wait I can just pull out my phone and start reading. I no longer have to make sure to put a book in my pocket or purse, since as long as I have my phone, I have a book to read.<\/p>\n Next: Genre<\/strong><\/p>\n These numbers are going to be a little more confusing, because a single book (especially the books I read) can be multiple genres (fantasy AND mystery AND romance). But for the most part things were pretty evenly split between fantasy and mystery.<\/p>\n Fantasy: 105 If you’re curious, that dip in mysteries occurred after Grandmom died. It was a while before I was in the mood to read straight-up mysteries, since then I’d often think, “Grandmom would have loved this…”<\/p>\n Finally, the thing that made me start tracking all these stats in the first place: the authors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It has been a constant complaint (mostly by men) that there just aren’t that many female authors out there. This is, of course, bullshit, but I figured the best way to show that would be to a look at my own reading habits over time.<\/p>\n This year, as with most other years, my reading was relatively evenly split between male and female authors. <\/p>\n Female: 105 Male: 40%![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017-Type.png?ssl=1\")
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\nMystery: 99
\nRomance: 42
\nComic: 24
\nYA: 7
\nNon-Fiction: 6
\nAnthology: 3
\nHistory: 2
\nCookbook: 1<\/p>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nMale: 91
\nJoint + Anthology: 34
\nInitials: 0
\nMale Pseudonym: 0
\nAnthology: 15
\nJoint: 19<\/p>\n
\nFemale: 46%
\nJoint + Anthology: 15%<\/p>\n