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I read 88 books this year. That's 38 more than my personal target for Goodreads' 2014 Reading Challenge. I wanted to under-promise so I could over-deliver. Thankfully, I did. I usually sneak in one more book around Dec. 30 or 31st, but I'm not going for it this year. It's been a year full of pressure, so I'm not inclined to add a contrived pressure on the last day of 2014. Above is the screencap of all the books I read this year, care of my Goodreads Reading Challenge . A pretty nifty feature, if you ask me, especially for the data conscious types. If you'd like to see what I've read this year, head on over to the page . Speaking of data-conscious types, I am, just a little bit. When I discovered the Ultimate Reading Spreadsheet , I promptly downloaded it. It was a bit of a chore, though, to type in all the data for every book I read, which leads me to the other nifty thing about Goodreads: you can export all your bookshelf data as a csv file, which...

Partial result of Question 4 In case you're a Filipino reader in my network and haven't seen this yet, well, here it is: The Filipino Reading Habits Survey Here's the introductory spiel of the survey to explain who is doing this and why: Hello. I'm Honey de Peralta, a former editor, some-time author, full-time publisher, and all-time reader. I'm doing this Reading Habit Survey in preparation for a panel discussion organized by the National Book Development Board - Philippines on March 3. In it, I'll be sharing what I know about the Filipino reading groups but also Filipino readers.  And so, I'd like your help in representing Filipino readers well. If you could take 5-10 minutes to take this survey, I'd really appreciate it. I'll be closing this survey on Feb. 28 and will be sharing the results with the public (via my blog, http://fantaghiro23.blogspot.com) on the evening of March 3. I'm hoping it'll give us and other members of t...