My Favorite Subheadings

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My Favorite Subheadings

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1kaelirenee
Nov 5, 2007, 1:01 pm

OK, I've been having way too much fun with excel. I wanted to see which subheadings I did the most reading in (I needed a mental boost after seeing how many books I need to read to read the whole classification outline!). So, looking at my LibraryThing (Which is just books I own currently -not my juvenille collection-and books I've checked out in the last year), here's what I have.

If you are equally bored some time, I'd love to see what every one elses looks like-if nothing else, we know who to turn to for recomendations!

So, My top ten list:
PR (49 read)
PS (46 read)
BL (38 read)
PN (22 read)
PZ (19 read)
Z (18 read)-granted, most of these were textbooks for grad school
HQ (18 read)
BF (17 read)
TT (11 Read)
QH (11 read)

2lorax
Edited: Nov 5, 2007, 3:06 pm

Aw, crap.

I was doing this, thought the numbers seemed a little low, and looked further -- it turns out the CSV doesn't export the "green" numbers. So for anyone else doing this with the export rather than on LT, check your numbers.

I need to go confirm the green numbers, then I'll try this again.

(Edit: Speaking of recommendations, though, if anyone needs QB just let me know.)

3_Zoe_
Nov 5, 2007, 3:08 pm

Looking at the list of books I've read just makes me realize how much I need this challenge. Most categories had fewer than five books read, and everything else is fiction:

PR (41 read)
PS (45 read)
PZ (168 read)

I like to think that I'm still young, so it's okay that most of my reading has consisted of children's fiction--and these are only the ones that I still own and haven't put into storage!

Also, I only count books that I've read completely (with a pretty strict definition of completion), so most school books were excluded.

4kaelirenee
Nov 5, 2007, 4:01 pm

Zoe, I did the same when counting books. Enough of my professors required reading every chapter, doing all the refreshers-a few even made us scour the annotated bibliographies. That's why so few of my biology books (undergrad degree) and almost none of my reference books made it in to the list. But I would certainly never ever recommend the book Introduction to Cataloging and Classification to anyone that wasn't wracked by the most serious insomnia. :)

5carlym
Nov 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

I don't have a great all-time books read list, so this isn't an accurate count. Except for all the political science and law books that I read in school and didn't keep (and that didn't have memorable titles or anything else that would make me remember the names), I think the overall rankings would be about the same, though, even if I had a complete list.

PZ--91 read
PR--71 read
PS--51 read
E--16
GV--12

The rest are pretty scattered.