The attached image is the number of books I have read this year with their page and audio length stats.
If you read audiobooks, ebooks, or library books, the satisfaction of owning tall stack of books that you have read will not be possible for you.
To help you with that, I wanted you know that I pulled a random foot of book shelf and added up the pages. There are 4336 pages in my random foot of paperbacks with one hard cover.
Now you could put together a spreadsheet that tells you how many audio weeks and shelf feet of books you have read without owning the physical books.
If there is interest in this, I could release a template.
What a ridiculous way to measure books, I love it.
Grabbed the last 12 inches of (physical) books I read and added em up. Mix of very recent and older books (much thinner pages and smaller type/font), and now I want to see how much difference those variations make when comparing different stacks of books, but goddammit I know I had other things I was gonna do today
Love this idea! I’ve mostly read my books through digital means so looking around my house it doesn’t appear I’m much of a reader.
Estimating how many bookshelves I’d need to store my collection is a fun metric.
There’s a shit ton of variation…
I agree. I know it would be possible to make an average on something like an entire library, but I just used a random foot of books, a ruler, and a tape measure.
Does anyone know how to find and average number of pages in a foot or meter of bookshelf across a whole library, or library system?
Y’all are listening to audiobooks at 1.5x???
I just tried it… it’s like clippy. How do you do that?
My audiobooks are clippy on Hoopla, but not anywhere else.
Clippy audio is not fun.
Never mind the template, I want a link to the calipers you used to measure the Feet of Shelf so precisely