{"id":20784,"date":"2023-08-26T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=20784"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:59:49","slug":"my-unread-books-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/my-unread-books-project\/","title":{"rendered":"My unread-books project"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In late 2015, it occurred to me that I had hundreds of unread books on my bookshelves, due to my decades-long habit of buying books but not reading them. So I decided to do something about that.<\/p>\r\n<p>From early 2016 through late 2019, I read or skimmed (or glanced at and decided to discard without reading) my few hundred unread mass-market paperbacks.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then I started in on my 570 unread trade paperbacks and hardcovers, and I created a spreadsheet to track the number of those books that I had read, and the number remaining, and to estimate how long it would take to finish.<\/p>\r\n<p>As of the last time I updated this page, in November, 2025, I have about 70 of those left to go; I\u2019m hoping to finish by mid-2026, but progress has been very slow in 2025, due mostly to most of the remaining unread books being quite long.<\/p>\r\n<p>(I\u2019ve added about 53 more books since I started the TPB\/HC phase of the project; so one way to think about the numbers is to pretend that I started with 623 instead of 570.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Here\u2019s the graph that Google Sheets generates from my data. The below image updates as I update the data, even when I haven\u2019t updated the text of this page in a while.<\/p>\r\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" seamless frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQspsbxz8ysN7j4FicLU_u4n7NSrKX_2P2mwZiqug4GxKpoCZaO33N1zGRTWI5Orjfct45G3MIgPZQQ\/pubchart?oid=2108861717&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p>After I finish this phase of the project, the next phase will be reading my unread ebooks. There are a few hundred of those, and I\u2019m averaging getting through about a hundred unread books a year, so I imagine that\u2019ll take me another few years.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5482,"menu_order":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20784\/revisions\/21640"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}