Hello, hello, everyone! Today I decided to bring you something different.
I recently joined bookstagram (@icthus_book) and was interested in people’s habits regarding their book consumption inside the bookstagram space. So I did some polls, questions and quizzes to see what was going on. This post will show us what is up with the bookstagram community.
The questions I asked include:
- Do you use a reading tracker?
- Which reading tracker do you use?
- If you don’t use one, why not?
- How long have you been using a reading tracker?
- Do you buy used or new books, or do you read library books?
- Do you use audiobooks?
As someone how has been using Goodreads for years and is now changing to StoryGraph, I was interested to see how people track what they read. Or if they track at all. From my research, 21% of people don’t track what they read at all, and 79% of people do track their readings.
When it comes to what people use to track their readings: 78% of people use Goodreads, 15% of people use StoryGraph, and 7% of people use a notebook or a planner.
I asked people who said they don’t track their readings why they don’t do so. One of them said they were, quite literally, assaulted in the message section of one of the online trackers. Some people said they don’t read enough to feel the need to track the books they read. Lastly, some people just said they had never thought of tracking the book they read.
The second part of the “research” was about the type of books the people of bookstagram consume. As someone who buys most books second-hand, I was intrigued by the results of the inquiry. I found out that 73% of the people that follow me mostly buy new books, rather than used books. Which is okay, like the planet doesn’t thank you (nor does your wallet if we are being honest, but who am I to judge?). I also found out that only 27% of the people that follow me buy used books, rather than new ones. Lastly, no one chose the option of mostly using library books, which is mind-blowing.
The last thing I wanted to know was if people used audiobooks a lot or not. I personally don’t use them that much. I read/listen in maxim to 2 audiobooks a year, and I do it together with reading the physical book (most of the time).
The results were that 65% of people don’t use audiobooks, while 35% of people use them. I guess this is pretty normal, but I was expecting more people to listen to audiobooks for some reason.
Well, I hope you found this interesting. If not, at least I had fun. I love stats and inquiries and other things like this, so if you have any ideas please let me know. Please, let me know what you would answer these questions.
Bye, keep on reading.
You can find me at:
IcthusBookCorner 
Okay. I am also surprised no one said the Library because I feel like that’s my main source of books for sure. I almost never buy new books but I could see how on bookstagram that probably isn’t the norm.
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Right!? I use the library so much. I can’t wait for it to open again.
I guess the answers I received do along with the idea that there is a lot of pressure when it come to social media to always have more and new. Which is sad and it’s a habit I hope I won’t catch.
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This was super interesting!! I love stats too – I created a excel spreadsheet for this year to track my reading more closely and it’s been so cool to see it fill in bit by bit
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I was thinking of using an excel sheet this year too. I wanted to track the countries of the books I read, genre, everything really but ended up not doing so. I wish there was a pre-made one.
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There are a few online like the one from Let’s Read! I know a lot of people use that one
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