Member: aliskye

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How are you doing? Still at Fox?

posted by DWWilkin at 1:40 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2009

Hi back!

posted by morien at 1:27 am (EST) on Jul 6, 2007

What can I say? Statistics can be fun. I have occassionally been ordering my library by "shared" and then when it says I am the only owner of some book that I think should be a little bit more popular, I look at the author's page, and the book page, and usually find that I can combine some together into a "work."

posted by EowynA at 6:56 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2007

mean/median book obscurity stats mean:
Take all the books you have entered, and place them in order by the number of other people who own that book.
The Median book obscurity means: - pick the book in the center of that long list. That book has "median" number of other people who own that book. Given that I have a lot of books that no one else lists, my median number is low. If I were starting with the SF/Fantasy stuff, my median number would likely be high.

the Mean book obscurity means: add up all the people who own books in your library, and divide by the number of books. So if the only books you had entered were the Harry Potter series, the "Mean obscurity" number would be several thousand. If you entered one book that only you have, and one book that 10 other people own, then your mean obscurity would be 5 (on average, 5 other people own the books you have)

Does that help?

posted by EowynA at 4:35 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

Welcome! I'm finding it addictive. And it is pretty easy to add books. Search for tags that might describe books in your library (like, say, Elizabethan or fantasy) and see what it recommends. That is how I got started. Recently I input all the Xanth books I have by searching for the "Xanth" tag, and then just adding those books to my catalog. Easy peasy.

posted by EowynA at 10:10 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2007