Play Book Tag discussion
June 2018: Magical Realism
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I read these posts, Cindy, and find them really interesting! Also thanks so much for doing the shelving. It must take an age
Me too! I love seeing how many books we read!
I love to read your monthly post Cin! I always try to add my books to the shelf. Sorry if I sometimes fail to do so.
I am always interested to see how many books we read for the tag every month. Good job, Cindy!
I read them too. Also you can see how many views each post gets when you see the list of topics inside each folder. It lists number ofComments and number of views.
I have a thing for stats! I always read this if I see that its been posted. Sometimes I miss seeing it and don't think to go looking. :-(
I love the stats - thanks for all the work you do to keep things tidy.
KateNZ wrote: "I read these posts, Cindy, and find them really interesting! Also thanks so much for doing the shelving. It must take an age"Thanks, Kate! It actually takes quite a bit less time than it did at shelfari, but it does help to have the author to confirm that I'm adding the correct book!
Susie wrote: "I love to read your monthly post Cin! I always try to add my books to the shelf. Sorry if I sometimes fail to do so."No worries! That's why I'm there to check! :-) And thank you for remembering (even if it's most of the time!). The author in the title of the thread is just much easier/faster for me to confirm I'm adding the correct book!
Jen wrote: "I read them too. Also you can see how many views each post gets when you see the list of topics inside each folder. It lists number ofComments and number of views."
Of course, you're right! I guess I tend not to look back unless someone has commented!
Barbara wrote: "I have a thing for stats! I always read this if I see that its been posted. Sometimes I miss seeing it and don't think to go looking. :-("If you miss seeing it, you can always see them all listed with stats here, as well:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(I guess you'd still have to go looking to check here, though!)
All previous tags are listed, and if you look at the 2nd message in that thread, I include all the stats there, as well. So, that's nice for comparison!
I enjoy the stats! I also try to contribute to a broad spectrum of titles so I try to go beyond the first few pages of titles in a tag to find TBR books that fit the theme but that not everyone else might be reading :).
I try to remember to shelve my books when I post the review. Would it help you if I make a note somehow that the book is already shelved?
Jgrace wrote: "I try to remember to shelve my books when I post the review. Would it help you if I make a note somehow that the book is already shelved?"You can if you'd like. The best place for me is in the title of the thread/topic, as I usually don't open it up while I'm shelving.
No worries if you don't, though. It's still not too bad to do the search and double check the tag has also been added (I do double check that, as well, so you only need to note it if you've also added the tag!) Thanks!
Always enjoy reading the stats. I do almost always put the author in the topic.
I love stats! Thanks for doing all that work to make things run smoothly!
First time I've noted the posting of stats, but I have only been here a month or two, love it! Any idea what was the least popular tag (least titles read for a tag)?
I guess there could be many duplicates so not necessarily an indication of an "unpopular tag." Seems to be a lot of overlap for this month.
Meli wrote: "First time I've noted the posting of stats, but I have only been here a month or two, love it! Any idea what was the least popular tag (least titles read for a tag)?
I guess there could be many ..."
That's one of the great features of the group bookshelf. The number of titles read is indicated next to the name of the shelf.
Jgrace wrote: "That's one of the great features of the group bookshelf. The number of titles read is indicated next to the name of the shelf. ..."I have never noticed this! lol. Seriously, how many times have I looked at the PBT shelf or my personal shelf and this fact has just NEVER REGISTERED. I think that may some something about my attention to detail....
Meli wrote: "Any idea what was the least popular tag (least titles read for a tag)? I guess there could be many ..."
I shared a link above that lists all the previous tags and the number of titles read (you are correct, though - it doesn't include if multiple people have read the same book).
Jgrace said this: That's one of the great features of the group bookshelf. The number of titles read is indicated next to the name of the shelf.
But that will only be for those tags since we arrived at GR. The link above will take you all the way back (except for our transition month from shelfari to here). I will take a look, but going from memory, I think the lowest numbers of reads tend to be the months where the tag is a place. (China, Ireland, etc...)
So, this was our lowest month: December 2013: India - 38 books read
We had 39 people read for China and (surprisingly!) Time travel. Ireland is just above 40.
We also had a bit of a PBT "heyday", I think in 2009, 2010, based on the stats!
Oh. There are a few tags listed with an *. Those are usually for some specific "celebration" or something where the admins chose a few extra tags on those months. They are usually around 20 (or fewer) books read for each of those.
Again, this is the link for anyone who wants to peruse themselves. Just scroll to the second post in the thread:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nicole R wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "That's one of the great features of the group bookshelf. The number of titles read is indicated next to the name of the shelf. ..."I have never noticed this! lol. Seriously, how ma..."
LOL! It's where I get the numbers! :-)
Oops, sorry, I skimmed right past the stats link. Thank you!
Looks like "strong women" and "female author" were wildly popular, cool :)
Meli wrote: "Oops, sorry, I skimmed right past the stats link. "No worries!
I don't know how many people read these threads that I post with the stats, but I wonder if I could ask a favour, at least for those who do...
If you could please also add the author in the title of your topic, that would be very helpful for me when I do the shelving.
I want to be sure I'm adding the correct book to our shelf, but it's rare that only one book appears in a search when I search only the title. I want to confirm with the author, but don't want to do the extra clicks to open the thread... even then, sometimes, it's still not obvious, and I have to click further to figure it out.
Thanks so much!