Quantum Reading
Thanks to Rob Miller’s Now Reading WordPress plugin I now have a Quantum Reading section for the site.
I’m not sure whether or not this makes the ‘Books On Writing‘ section redundant, as quite a few entries from that will be found in the Quantum Reading section. I suppose it’s worth having a separate section for those books so that people don’t have to wade through my dirty laundry list of regular reading!
One further note — it’s interesting what you learn when you actually track your habits like this. I didn’t realize I had read quite so many books last year. I knew it was a lot, but, well, um… the actual number shocks me in just how much I am a dirty little book slut.
Read anything good lately? If anyone else nabs the Now Reading plugin, let me know. I’ll be happy to come take a look at your list.
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December 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 pm
I tried this plugin but had trouble with a few of the outputs. I see you’ve removed a few things, dates and averages and stuff, any chance you’d shared the modified file?
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Averages should appear if you are looking here. And the dates and times will appear on the individual book pages. Or were you talking about something else?
December 4th, 2006 at 1:22 am
I was referring to the lack of averages when you go to the quantum reading page. For some reason the averages come out weird on my site (though I think I might have fixed it).
I also wouldn’t mind getting rid of the date started and finished, but I can play around with that to figure it out.
December 4th, 2006 at 2:12 am
nr_display() is the command I use on the Quantum Reading navigation page. The full library page is only available from that. What I’d like to know is how to display the full library on the Quantum Reading page. The documentation doesn’t explain any way to do that… and I’m no php master.
If you figure that out, let me know!
December 4th, 2006 at 3:49 am
You’re doing better than me getting php to work on a wordpress page, I’m still figuring that out.
The other way to do what you want (If I understand you correctly) would be to edit your template files (header.php) by manually putting in a link to the library page, just put it next to the wp_list_pages() - or similar. If need any pointers let me know.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
The best 2 books I’ve read lately are:
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry. I picked it up on a whim at the local Target, and couldn’t stop reading.
“Knight Seeker” by Eric mann Cooper. This is a self-pub superhero book that should be published. Eric Mann Cooper is a tremendous writer, and Knight Seeker is a perfect book for comic book fans.
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The lost amazing thing I notice as I look at the books I have read in 2006 is that I getting more selective, and finishing more of the books I do purchase.
I used to put down 3-4 books for every one I finished. Now I read 3-4 for every one I don’t finish.