Ancestors

Written by Jens Jäger on 2024-12-14 at 13:32

Join me in doing the #52BookClub in 2025 and fill 52 prompts with the books you read! I’ve discovered such great #books this way (and I like checking off boxes). It’s helped expand my horizons when it comes to #reading!

My favorite 2025 prompts: “pun in the title” & “set in a country with an active volcano”, but there are other great ones.

Challenges like this have helped me get back into my reading habit. No need to read 52 books though! 😌

https://www.the52book.club/2025-reading-challenge/ #amReading #ReadingChallenge

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Written by Jens Jäger on 2024-12-16 at 15:35

Something for the data nerds (= you): While #Goodreads is, for several reasons, garbage, it does show me this nice breakdown of when I read a book vs. when it was written.

Unfortunately, I cannot zoom in. But at least each dot is identifiable via mouseover - it then shows the book, author, year read, and year published.

[#]data #dataviz #amReading #reading #books

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Descendants

Written by Anand Philip on 2024-12-16 at 15:48

@JensJot recently found this https://booksirens.com/reviewer/CIGQ48W?utm_campaign=reviewer_sticker site that has some interesting goodreads viz, one of the projects i hope to do this year is to make a simple webapp that lets you upload and get viz, becasue goodreads UI is just ...

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Written by The Tiller on 2024-12-16 at 16:37

@JensJot This kinda begs the question what you were busy with in 2017

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Written by Jens Jäger on 2024-12-16 at 16:49

@swoonie Other hobbies (and work), I'd say. I hardly read anything during grad school and my first jobs after that - all the dots that are there in the diagram represent comic book compilations (that are faster to read for me).

It took me a bit of commitment to restart my reading habit in 2021.

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Written by The Tiller on 2024-12-16 at 19:35

@JensJot The amount of books you read from 2021 looks truly impressive.

I love that vertical time axis. Mind you, I read a wee bit of literature from classical Greece over the years - calls for a log scale!

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Written by Jens Jäger on 2024-12-16 at 20:17

@swoonie I have few other hobbies and tend to read quite fast.

And yes, books from antiquity might make the data look… spread out 😅

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