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1a) Books read/recorded (including DNF):
2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings (including DNF):
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars:
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses:
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (excluding DNF):
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%:
Unpopular makes the book sound bad... usually these are indie or emerging authors that don't have much of a fanbase yet...
Thanks, Iain, I'll think about rewording the test.
Yeah, there's no way I'm clicking into all my read books to find out how many ratings they had. You lost me at too much work.
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Also... Holy $h!t... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has 5 million ratings... and was the 3rd book posted to this website...
Iain wrote: "You can do all this from your shelves page, if you enable num ratings and sort in ascending/descending order... it's still more work the more you read..."That doesn't tell you how many ratings the book has. You have to actually click into each book for that. You can only sort by your rating, not see how many ratings in general are on that book.
Iain wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...Also... Holy $h!t... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has 5 million ratings... and was the 3rd..."
That book is overrated. (Now everyone comes and stones me)
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the first... I also just learned you can basically play roulette with the website if you want
booklinks that end in /show/######## work for any number between 1 and 33 million or so... eveything after the book number is optional...
Usually it goes /show/########.[Book_Name}
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/show/########.[Book_Name]__[Series_Name]__[Book_#]_
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2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings (including DNF): 76 (5.1%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 61 (I rate high)
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses: 80.26%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (excluding DNF): 185
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 12.42%
To make me feel better:
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): 67.84%
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That doesn't tell you how ma..."
it does show ratings if you click the settings button and check num ratings... I had to have a num ratings column to sort by it... you probably didn't see it because you don't have it enabled...
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Highly rated titles I'd say I'm probably at 75% with 4 stars or higher. I tend not to pick up the hyped ones unless I've don't research and decided I'm likely going to enjoy it. To me, hype itself is a little off putting, especially when it's from people who don't read a lot. I stick to my peep's opinions.
Lower rated is likely a lot higher. Like 90% or something. I don't read self pub, so if I'm reading a little-rated title, it's probably a continuation to a series I already know I'm going to like before picking up. There's a chance first in series experiments would knock my stat down, but I imagine those always get more ratings.
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Also... Holy $h!t... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has 5 million ratings... an..."
I read the books at the right age to enjoy them... in hindsight, it's easy to point out Rowling's inability to cut down on side-stories about classroom stuff and just focus on the overarching Voldemort plot...
Iain wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Iain wrote: "You can do all this from your shelves page, if you enable num ratings and sort in ascending/descending order... it's still more work the more you read..."T..."
You're right. I stand corrected. I didn't know that was an option. In that case this wouldn't be so hard to do.
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Dead Witch Walking has 99,500 ratings...
This would have been much harder if we didn't get to ignore books with 1001 to 99,999 ratings... the majority of books fall into this category... 82.5% of my considerable shelves...
@Diana: Goodreads has so many hidden options... and most of them aren't very useful...
The best one I found recently, helping Laura, was the ability view books on 2+ shelves at once... there's a button at the bottom of your shelf list that puts a plus sign next to each shelf to add it to your search...
Here is every 5-star sf-fantasy book I read in 2017: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
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1a) Books read/recorded : 448
2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings : 131 (29.2%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 90
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses: 68.7%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (I have a good num in TBR): 11
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 2.5%
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): 66.2%
@MargretI think I get the joke. Which is actually rare for me))
I wish there was an export to excel option. I can't count all of these.
idiffer wrote: "@MargretI think I get the joke. Which is actually rare for me))"
I totally didn't get it until you posted. Then I had to reread it twice before I got it. That flew way over my head lol
1a) Books read/recorded (including DNF): 2382a) Books tried with over 100k ratings (including DNF): 73
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 35
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses: 47.9%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (excluding DNF): 28
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 11.8%
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): 36.1%
Those stats are probably not very accurate 'cause I joined GR in 2016. I'm only adding books I read previously as I spot them and often don't rate ('cause I don't remember the book well enough).
I don't need books or a test to tell me I'm the hippest of you all. lol. If only I was open to talk about my past, but won't. lol
1a) Books read/recorded : 10322a) Books tried with over 100k ratings : 201 (19.5%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 154
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses: 76.6%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (I have a good num in TBR): 167
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 16.2%
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): 60.4%
I lived in Brooklyn for 9 years so I think I automatically win.
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Iain wrote: "So far, I think I'm winning, because I'm so generous with my ratings... I consider Virginie the winner so far, tho, since she's the LEAST hipster among us..."I think I'm the least hipster. I started the test and gave up when it was obvious how very embarrassingly unhipster I was.
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2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings : 27 (2%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 21
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how often you agreed with the masses: 77%
I don't think my sample size is sufficient for the top half. I mean, half of those were harry potter books and LOTR.
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings: 89 (65 of which were rated 4+ @ 73%)
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 7%
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): .70%
Overall, with a 77% and 73% approval rating for either category, that tells me that I'm consistently judging books, regardless of how popular they are.
Also, with only 2% of my reads being in the highly rated, it's clear I'm not swayed for what to read by the masses. Booya.
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2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings : 27 (2%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 21
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = h..."
Many of the books that contributed to my score were things like HP, Stephen King, and classics. I also don't have a big sample set. I think it will be fun to redo this annually or something and see how the numbers change.
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Harry Potter (as-a-kid)
Fault in Our Stars (movie came out and I was curious)
Mortal Instruments (tire-replacement pre-Kindle, Walmart bookshelf)
John Grisham thrillers (as-a-kid)
Roald Dahl (as-a-kid)
Sookie Stackhouse (who knew?)
Stephanie Plum (looking for an In Death replacement series)
Artemis Fowl (another curiosity... my younger brother read these as a kid)
Good Omens
Narnia (as-a-kid)
Mistborn
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Dresden Files
Odd Thomas
Jack Reacher
Stormlight Archives
Kay Scarpetta (tried after Stephanie Plum)
Wheel of Time
Magicians trilogy
Wheel of Time
Farseer Trilogy
Left Behind (as-a-kid)
Michael Connelly
On Dublin Street (romance)
Gentleman Bastard
Wallbanger (romance, first I later found out was somehow a Twilight fanfic)
Mercy Thompson
Chelsea Handler's memoirs
In Death
Fever
Wool Omnibus
Anita Blake (1 star)
Night Huntress
First Law
Dark Matter
Reckoners
Most of this list is popular kids books, Buddy Reads, or the result of me looking for a specific type of book...
Dark Matter is probably the most "hipster" book I read... everybody was reading it last summer... including my growing friends list...
Wow, so I went through my list, and my reviews for some of these books were ridiculously falsely good. Back in my book blog days I tended to give many many more 4 and 5 star reviews for books which I would now give 3s. People don't want to read a negative blog :/
Not to be mean, I'm sure it all in good fun for all. My thought was if I have to take a test to see if I'm Hip then i'm not hip to begin with. Why I stated earlier I know I'm hip already. lol Ok now give me all your alls mean comments....lol
Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Yeah, there's no way I'm clicking into all my read books to find out how many ratings they had. You lost me at too much work."LOL, same here.
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I can imagine. I have books that I've rated right after reading and then had to change it after I finished the series or I let the book sit with me for a while.
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Yanique wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Wow, so I went through my list, and my reviews for some of these books were ridiculously falsely good. Back in my book blog days I tended to give many many more 4 and 5 s..."I'm looking at some 5 star books and am thinking they're 3 stars at best. If anything I think this thread has inspired me to go through and rerate some of these.
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Niki Hawkes wrote: "For sure. I read a lot of meh titles but gave them 4 stars. I wish I'd had my current reviewing system all along."Yup. I think when I get home I'll try to do this just for my 2016-2018 books. I think my more recent reviews were more true to me.
I've only been doling goodreads for about a year and a half, maybe? Still why not? I have time I cannot afford to spare/1a) Books read/recorded (including DNF): 310
2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings (including DNF): 15
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 10
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how ofter you agreed with the masses: 66.6%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (excluding DNF): 112
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%:
36.1%
BONUS
3c) Books read with <1k ratings and 4/5 stars: 64
3d) Percentage of preference for lesser-numer of ratings books= 57%
...wow the amount of >100k books was way lower than I thought it would be. Also a lot of those <1k books are obscure comics, so that may have shifted the numbers a bit.
Also some of my absolute favourite books (Echoes of a Giantkiller, Spirits Abroad) have way fewer ratings than I thought they would have. This saddens me.
Iain wrote: "So far, I think I'm winning, because I'm so generous with my ratings... I consider Virginie the winner so far, tho, since she's the LEAST hipster among us..."Since she has the lowest percentage, doesn't that mean she is the MOST hipster by this calculation, since she agrees with the masses less?
Although Niki, with only 2% of her books over 100,000, and Sha, with 36% of her books less than 1000 are pretty hipster in my book.
Iain wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the first... I also just learned you can basically play roulette with the website if you want
booklinks that end i..."
I've never tried this before. How cool.
I love how the first books after Harry Potter are Hitchhikers Guide, and then randomly number 22 is Bill Bryson's African Diary. Like... 22~29 are all these Bill Bryson books I've never heard of before LOTR comes in at number 30.
Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Yanique wrote: "Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Wow, so I went through my list, and my reviews for some of these books were ridiculously falsely good. Back in my book blog days I tended to give many man..."Oh, same here. I likewise have felt the need to revise my older ratings. I'd give a book 5 stars directly after finishing it that may only be worth 3 or 4. Completion euphoria resulted in a glowing review that later on makes me squint in embarrassment.
Yeesh, that was a lot of scrolling, but I counted them up. Couldn't help myself.1a) Books read/recorded (including DNF): 872
2a) Books tried with over 100k ratings (including DNF): 168 (19%)
2b) Books read with over 100k ratings that you rated 4-5 stars: 81
2c) % of a hipster you are [(2b / 2a) x 100]% = how often you agreed with the masses: 48%
3a) Books read with under 1000 ratings (excluding DNF): 133
3b) How often you read lesser known books [(3a / 1a) x100]%: 15%
4) Adjusted Hipster Rating (2c - 3b): 33%
I dunno how hipster I am. Basically, I've read a bunch of popular books, but I rate on the lower end. I have a bunch of books under 1000, but that's skewed by Japanese books and manga I think. *shrug*
Melissa wrote: "Since she has the lowest percentage, doesn't that mean she is the MOST hipster by this calculation, since she agrees with the masses less?"Noooo, don't say that! 😭
//puts on zero-powe, big-frame glasses and drinks large cups of overpriced coffee while judging everybody
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Maybe someone with superior math skillz could help out, as these tests are not definitive enough, I think.
Popular books:
1) Count number of books with over 100K ratings that you have read AND gave 4 or 5 stars to.
2) Count number of books with over 100k ratings that you have read. DNF counts as read.
3) Divide number 1) by number 2) and multiply by 100%. Post result as percentage.
Unpopular books:
1) Count number of books with under 1000 ratings that you have read. DNF does NOT count as read.
2) Divide number 1) by total number of books read, and multiply by 100%. Post result as percentage.
**Will post my result later. because reasons.