I set my annual reading goal to be 71 books. I picked 71 because it is a prime number and is also right below 72, which is 6 books per month. 6 is a good number of books to read per month. It won’t stress me out and will let me finish some of the thicker books on my shelves. I have plenty.
Goodreads, despite being less buggy with the Reading Challenge this year, doesn’t have a good estimation for how ahead of schedule I am. Their two screens argue that I’m either 2 or 3 books ahead. The mobile app also thinks it’s 3.
15.96 days have passed, and 15.96/(365/71) = 3.1. That’s the number of books I should have read by now. Since I’ve read five, I’m 1.9 books ahead. And 1.9 books is not quite two or three books. It’s not that bad, compared to last year, when it announced I’m 70 books behind schedule on day 1.
A good reminder about the old truth that are only 2 hard problems in programming – naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
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That’s funny, Veselin🙂
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In a sense, I’m glad Goodreads is still a typical Web 2.0 website. Not monetised and enshitified to the sky. Better this way
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Unfortunately, it’s the monetization that does it. After that, it’s all downhill. Keep it free, brother!
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Yeah, the second best website in this area is much more difficult to use and has fewer books. It will be hard to leave Goodreads
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