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Lynx-lynx · 05-10-2015, 06:14 AM

Paul there was a suggestion that we include a survey as to how many books we've read per decade. As there are 10 decades, perhaps 3 choices could be given: 8 books and under, 9 to 16 books, over 16 books (or whatever).

To my thinking this survey is necessary because whilst each of us will be voting for ouir "best" book, we aren't choosing from the complete offering, just those books that we've read. (And that may mean that quite a bulk of us could be making a choice from only 8 or less books for some decades.)

So, statistically I think it adds to information in understanding how the resultant "best" book was determined.

I appreciate that a drawback to this survey is that we aren't nominating the books that we've read by name, just by volume - and yes that's a flaw.

Any ideas?

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Lynx-lynx Treachery of images ... Posts: 4,123 Karma: 93720365 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Australia Device: Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2, Libra Colour	Paul there was a suggestion that we include a survey as to how many books we've read per decade. As there are 10 decades, perhaps 3 choices could be given: 8 books and under, 9 to 16 books, over 16 books (or whatever). To my thinking this survey is necessary because whilst each of us will be voting for ouir "best" book, we aren't choosing from the complete offering, just those books that we've read. (And that may mean that quite a bulk of us could be making a choice from only 8 or less books for some decades.) So, statistically I think it adds to information in understanding how the resultant "best" book was determined. I appreciate that a drawback to this survey is that we aren't nominating the books that we've read by name, just by volume - and yes that's a flaw. Any ideas? Last edited by Lynx-lynx; 05-10-2015 at 06:18 AM. Reason: add last 2 paras.