Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Some 2024 Readings

 Every year about this time I get an email from Audible giving me a summary of my previous year's listening. I don't know if it's completely correct - for instance, how did I listen to 50 titles when I only have around 100 total in my Audible library (maybe I just started a book I'd already read for a few minutes to check on something?) - but I suspect it's fairly close. Here are some of the stats:

Total hours: 503

Titles: 50

Longest streak: 23 days

Literature & Fiction: 341 hours

Religion & Spirituality: 107 hours and 26 minutes

Politics & Social Sciences: 40 hours and 38 minutes

Most active month: August (72 hours), followed by December (71) and May (45)

Breakdown by author: Marcel Proust (128 hours), Charles Dickens (46), Thomas Wolfe (26)

Mainly I just fine this interesting, and it relates to this year's decision to record the number of books I've read this year. I suppose 503 hours seems like an ungodly amount, but I do have an hour commute each way to work - and I made two drives to Indiana - and I listen to Audible when I'm working out at the gym - so I guess it adds up. Of course, this list doesn't include all the books that I actually read old school, that is, in actual physical form (which is still the form that makes me the happiest).



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