Readers and Reading discussion

Thanks to everyone who voted for their 2009 favorites here.

Statistics:

2009 voting ---- 66 out of 193 members of Good Reads/Favorite Fiction voted = 43%

2008 voting --- (at Favorite Fiction before our move to GR): 58 out of 90 members voted = 64%

I think this year's numbers are fairly disappointing. Oh, well.

JoAnn - Despite your lower than last year statistics, I think you did a fantastic job of getting so many contributors. Thanks for all your work. I love seeing the final results.

Thanks, JoAnn, good job. The results may be disappointing to you, but you had more votes submitted this year than last, correct? Excellent!

Actually tho, you had more voting and the number of members was by far greater. I think you did good and I really appreciate your work. If you only had 90 members this year the totals would have been way up.

Thanks JoAnn

While you may have hoped for higher participation, I think that the results are a good sampling of active readers who post here. You probably convinced a higher percentage of readers to vote than people who typically head out to polls on election day! Thank you for reminding us of the books that caught our interests in 2009.

I echo what others have noted. Allow me to add that the higher number of possible voters is a result of our move. JoAnn, did you list everyone who's posted on this board? Or did they have to post a certain number of messages first? Regardless, we all consider this a success!

deborah

Thank you Joann...I much appreciate you doing this!

Jeanie/KY

madrano wrote: "I echo what others have noted. Allow me to add that the higher number of possible voters is a result of our move. JoAnn, did you list everyone who's posted on this board? Or did they have to post a certain number of messages first?..."

Deborah, do you mean did I contact everyone on the board? When I send out an e-mail to all R and R members via the GoodReads e-mail system, it is called a "broadcast" and it goes to every member.

I used MS Word to make a list of all the R and R members. I then added the list of people from Favorite Fiction to this document.

Then I used the MS Word "sort" function to put my entire (combined) list into alphabetical order. I deleted duplicates (people who were FF and R and R members) to arrive at a total number of people who MIGHT have voted.

Is that what you wanted to know?

I think part of the problem with "numbers" is that many people join Readers and Reading and never come back after a couple of visits. In fact, a large percentage of the GoodReads "books and literature" groups have been inactive for many months.

JoAnn/QuAppelle wrote: "I think part of the problem with "numbers" is that many people join Readers and Reading and never come back after a couple of visits. In fact, a large percentage of the GoodReads "books and literat..."

I'm glad this hasn't been one of the inactive boards, and thanks from me, too, JoAnn :)

JoAnn/QuAppelle wrote: "I think part of the problem with "numbers" is that many people join Readers and Reading and never come back after a couple of visits. In fact, a large percentage of the GoodReads "books and literat..."

JoAnn, your first post about how you came up with the names to contact answered my question. Thank you. This post was going to be my reply. LOL! We've seen some people visit a time or two, then vanish. I'm not very surprised if they didn't vote.

deborah

Another statistic....even though 66 people voted, in ten days there have only been 46 "views" of the fiction winners (and I probably was 4 of those views) and 27 views of the non-fiction winners.

I don't know what to think of that. Maybe we all just like to share our thoughts but not so much the tally? I doubt that. More likely we forget.

deborah