I was looking at my Paperbackswap wish list and discovered some interesting things:
- There are 182 books on my Paperbackswap wish list
- 28 have more than 100 requests, only about 25% of these are nonfiction
- Some have 100s of requests like:
- 632 people want Silver Borne which hasn’t even come out yet … I bet a good many of them end up buying it.
- 362 want Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. I should get a copy some time in the next couple of years … in an estimated 83 weeks.
- The waits for these don’t bother me as I have plenty of books to read in the meantime! (And I could get the older ones from the library and I could buy copies of the newer ones.)
- And then for some books, 13 to be exact, books I thought sounded good, I’m the only person waiting for them. I’ve been waiting for several of them since 2007, so obviously nobody is reading them either. These vary widely according to topic. As a sample:
- The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using
Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever - Coastal Navigation (U.S. Sailing Certification)
- DISROBE Completely: Real Life Cases Reveal the
State of American Medicine - Freedive! (But 5 people are waiting for a Manual of Freediving: Underwater on a Single
Breath which is also on my list. And I only want one of them.) - Living in Space: A Handbook for Work Exploration Beyond the Earth’s
Atmosphere (I did get The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red
Planet and Why We Must.)
- The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using
What’s your wish list dynamic look like?