New Pages Statistics

We've added a new set of statistics to the Charts & Graphs section. Under Books you'll now see Pages at the bottom. This displays various slices of your catalog by number of pages. E.g., Author by Pages shows by which authors you have the most pages. Obviously, if page counts aren't set on a book they won't be counted, so if you want more accurate information, add page counts to all your books!

Also included are Genres, DDC, Tags, and Series. Any others people would like to see? Let us know.

Kudos to this post on twitter https://twitter.com/Not_Reconciled/status/1599227456061198336 that gave conceptDawg the idea which he passed on to me.

Link to the new feature: Stats->Pages

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Sample image, but ignore my vast library of Grisham read 30 years ago when in college (he went to the same college as me, so was a bit of a local hero).

Lovely! Can you make it more translatable? Look at it on the Spanish or French site and you'll see that it's almost untranslatable right now.

>3 anglemark: Oops! Sorry about that. Added those now. We can't translate everything in the stats pages, but let me know if you find any other untranslatables!

This is a very cool stat, thanks for coming up with it. Last year I read over 5,000 pages by L. Frank Baum! Charles Dickens comes in fourth on my list at 1,000... but I only read one book by him, it was just so long.

Okay so all my audio books will screw this chart. Got it. :)

>6 gilroy: ...Well, they don't have pages

Ohm question on the page:
IF the user has genres disabled, should we still be able to see the chart for genres?

Ooh, fun! I’m definitely going to need to go through my book stats and check the page numbers (and a ton of other info) because most are missing or wrong. I’ll do that when I move - I’ll have to go through all the books then anyway.
And while I’m not surprised that Agatha Christie takes the top spot for me, the fact that it’s five digit number of pages is a bit of a shock.

>8 gilroy: Ohm question on the page:

You couldn't resist asking that, could you?

It will definitely expose some outliers. For example, my longest book is listed as Tebel's History of Book Publishing in the United States ( https://www.librarything.com/work/3035901 ) in 4 volumes. I guess the cumulative page count is 3,063. It might be something to confirm.

I did not catalog my United States Catalog of Books in Print, January 1, 1928 because it was not shelvable when I was cataloging most of my books years ago. It is large and heavy and 1,609 pages in a single volume according to my stats on a PDF version. It's what Hermione Granger might call "light reading." Here's a photo from a current eBay listing which is like my copy.



There are a lot of books where the page counts in the data sources are estimates or blank. This might inspire some refinement of this data at least for individual member libraries.

James

>8 gilroy: Oh, I forgot that! I'll fix it.

>12 knerd.knitter: Fixed.

This is fun!

Bug, maybe? When I click the plus sign and the pop-up opens, all the bars display, but only every other label displays, seems like?

>14 JBD1: That's going to be dependent on the screen size. We don't control how many are shown. You should still get the hovers with the labels.

>15 knerd.knitter:, sure, but only showing every other label just looks off: https://www.librarything.com/pic/9540806

Love it, thank you

I LOVE this!!!

No surprises for me, top one is just over 11,000 pages from Steven Erikson (10 books ;)), followed closely by Robin Hobb with just 100 pages less on 16 books, haha

Could we have more filters, though, please, namely by Tags? I use tags for "Read in (year)" and I wish I could remove them from that chart.

Dunno if it's worth doing anything about it, but my top author by this measure is the editor of an encyclopaedia, most of which he presumably didn't write himself.

I notice that Grace S. Richmond is not on my list, despite the 30 volumes on my shelves. She is obscure and pre1950s era. Is there data missing that I could add to correct the gap?

>20 2wonderY: On your Book page for a book, there is a section called Physical description, and in that section a label Pagination followed by a box for the number of pages. Depending on your cataloguing source, that box might be filled in or empty. If it's empty, you can fill it in yourself.

>10 anglemark: I had a brain short.

>13 knerd.knitter: Looks great! Thanks!

>19 AndreasJ:
My library has a similar phenomenon that credits Robert M. Price because I have listed him as the primary "author" (in the sense of the data field) on a full shelf of story collections that he edited.

That's cool! But there are a lot more natural science pages in my library that what is shown. The Top-Level DDC by Pages says 568 pages, but when I look at that list (all the 500s) there a lot more than what it lists at first. What's going on there?

>24 al.vick: Do you have a filter on? I see +126k for the 500s on your Top-Level DDC chart

ah.. that's it. I had a collection specified, and I didn't notice! So no worries. :)

A fascinating feature, but one that may need some settings. :-)

When I went to my list, these were the top six:
Geoffrey Chaucer 14,893 36
William Shakespeare 8,925 9
Lewis Carroll 8,021 28
Flavius Josephus 6,697 11
Homer 6,079 13
Nina Baym 4,354 2

I had guessed that Chaucer might top my list, and probably deserves to, given all my Variorum Chaucer volumes. I would not have guessed that Shakespeare would top Carroll, but at least it's close. :-)

The interesting thing about Flavius Josephus is that only half of it is by Josephus -- it's the Loeb Classical Library edition, so half of it is Greek pages (actual Josephus) and the other half is translations and footnotes and such.

But #6 is the one that calls for attention. I've never heard of Nina Baym. On investigating, I learn that she was the chief editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature. Except -- she edited the sixth edition, and I don't have the sixth edition. And the copy in my library does not say it's the sixth edition. I suppose I should dig around and try to fix that, but I only have the book as a convenient reference, so I probably won't bother. :-) Anyway, a situation where one enters the book by title, rather than by ISBN, can doubtless produce oddities. And while the Norton Anthology has an ISBN (I entered it very early in my use of LibraryThing, before I knew how to enter ISBNs), I have a lot of books with no ISBNs!

Or #13 is American Psychiatric Association. That's because I have five different editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This would probably be true of most psychiatrists of a certain age -- but they only use one.

I have a lot of curiosities like that. There might need to be some notes about what happens if you have multiple copies of what is considered the same work (as I have multiple complete works of Shakespeare) or multiple editions (as e.g. of the DSM) or if a book, especially a textbook, passes through multiple authors.

A bug:

In the table view for "Top authors by pages", the number of books leads not to a list of books in my catalogue, but to the author page.