I just feel so burnt out on all the stats that get sent your way, for everything. I don't need goals or achievements or my daily stats. I'm reading to get away from the grind of life, not so that it becomes another obsessive habit. Every app seems to have a goal list or a stats thing.
I'm not sure if it's just me.
by joellevp
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The only stat I am interested in is how many books I’ve read. However, I also borrow tangible books from the library which don’t get counted in my Kindle tally, so it’s really more of just a guide. Sometimes I wish I knew how many pages I read but again, it wouldn’t be an accurate metric since I read across different mediums. I definitely do not get hung up on the stats though. Nor am I particularly impressed by anyone else’s stats.
You don’t have to look at the stats. You dont have to set a goal or “become obsessed.”
You don’t even have to use an app.
If you want to keep track of the books you read or what to read, just write them down.
I have an app with my “to buy” list on it so I can remember what I want to get when I’m in a bookshop. Other than that, I don’t have any apps or reminders and I think it would drive me mad. I do book challenges but it’s 4 books a month, so no stress, and I keep control of it – it’s not in an app. In summary; I agree – that sounds like hard work
I adore stats in every single thing in life. I have Letterboxd, serializd, good reads, etc
i don’t do statistics about my pleasure activities. i just read books or watch movies or listen music.
I ignore all of it. I read when I feel like it. I’d rather take three weeks to read one book at a pace that I can enjoy and get something out of the book than speed through it in three days and not remember any of it in a month just to add another title to the list.
I don’t keep any kind of statistics for any of my reading for just this reason.
Reading in itself is enough for me.
Where are you all getting stats? The only stat I get is the Goodreads how many I’ve read this year which is opt-in.
I love looking at numbers and trends. I don’t obsess over the goals even though I set them. I just love seeing how my reading over the year went, which months I read more, which months I didn’t, what genres or moods I gravitated towards etc. that’s the fun part for me.
I’m not even sure what those are lol, but I read physical books exclusively. Can’t vibe with the digital or audiobook stuff 🤷
Umm. You don’t need an app at all to read.
Part of me wants to record everything I read and the other part hates the idea.
Yep. I have a maths degree and am always excited to look at numbers.
The old Kobo app used to have all kinds of stats including a density plot of when you used it. I was a big fan, though I mostly only read physical books these days.
I have no idea how many books I read in a year or any other stat. Reading isn’t something I need a goal for. I do rate books on Goodreads after I finish them.
I don’t keep “stats” about my reading. I read what sounds interesting when I want to read it. Keeping “stats” would take all of the joy out of it. No thanks!
I used to, but I don’t like it any more. I realised I was in a competition with myself to see how much I could read and I didn’t want that, so I stopped using apps.
I now write down the books I’ve read in a physical notebook, just so that I remember the titles I’ve already read, and that’s it.
I hate the idea of “gamifying” my consumption of art. I don’t use any book apps, or even know what apps people use for this sort of thing. I don’t keep track of what I read in any way. I just read what I want when I want and don’t think about it beyond that.
I genuinely love statistics. I’m not particularly interested in goals like the number of books to read in a year, but seeing which genres I read most often and how many books/pages I read in certain periods, tracking the formats and ratio of languages I read in, and so on are really interesting and useful to me.
I’m not as obsessed as other people seem to be but sometimes it’s nice to glance at those. I don’t set any goals or anything but I do enjoy being able to say “oooo I’ve read xyz number of thrillers this year”
i like seeing in goodreads how many books and pages ive read through the year, but its just kind of a fun thing to me it doesnt affect how i read or anything like that
i dont like tracking daily reading that turns it into a chore and not a fun hobby
if it affects you negatively just dont do it, uninstall the app if you cant stop using it, write lists of books in a note or something if you are keeping the app to keep track of want to read lists
I don’t do anything else for which stats are worth paying attention to, so yea I do kinda enjoy the Goodreads year end review thing.
I started doing my own little reading wrapped at the end of the year, but instead of focusing on quantity, I look for relationships between books. I just pull up all the titles I read and group them together loosely based on themes or things they have in common and then put them into categories.
I like reflecting on what I’ve read, but I too feel exhausted with constantly quantifying everything by productivity metrics.
I don’t set goal, other than “I’d like to get to these 2 or 3 books this year, that would be nice.”
I like storygraph because I like looking at my yearly wrap up to discover more about what I like to guide me for next year. But yeundI refuse to be like “okay here’s my reading list for the next 52 weeks.” My brain doesn’t work that way.
I do. I actually hit my record this year by hitting 33 books and it felt to look back and see things like total pages read and average pages per book. I’m a statistics nerd like that though
I set my goal as one book just so I can compare overall stats (number of books and longest book) and end of the year. I’ve made an effort to not even rate books unless it is a 5.
I love hindsight stats, so I like the “you’ve read X books this year” that Goodreads does, and I also track my read books in an excel list, lol.
I do not like goals or achievements. I also don’t like daily stats; my e-reader tells me every time I put it on standby how many % of the book I’ve read and it annoys me because it makes me look at reading the book as something that I need to accomplish, like a chore.