1terrylister
What is the average number of reviews a book 9n libraarything has? What number of reviews is considered high?
2MarthaJeanne
The top 250 are here: https://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist/reviews#most
My impression is that most have none. Numbers aren't everything. There are a lot of quite useless reviews.
"Mariko's book"
"I didn't read this book :)"
"11.11"
My impression is that most have none. Numbers aren't everything. There are a lot of quite useless reviews.
"Mariko's book"
"I didn't read this book :)"
"11.11"
3lorax
Average? Probably zero or close to it, but only Tim could answer that. In my own library the median - which is probably more representative than the mean, since some popular books have thousands of reviews, and also it's easy to see at a glance - is 13. In MarthaJeanne's - which is considerably larger and has more non-English books - the median is 1.
4norabelle414
The site Zeitgeist says there are 27,038,993 works and 4,399,334 reviews written so that's an average of 0.163 reviews per book
5MarthaJeanne
>3 lorax: Only 37 have 1000 or more. Only 3 have thousands (ie 2000 or more.)
6reading_fox
>5 MarthaJeanne: and one of those is artificially high -although they're all real reviews - because LT/Tim ran a competition for the 'best' review, so more were written than would otherwise be.
>3 lorax: - how did you median number? I can't sort my library by no.reviews, unless I'm missing a heading somewhere. It's not even easy to get to the mean, I have just under 2000 books excluding wishlist etc. I think from the Reviews tab of my profile there are 1220, but maybe that's excluding mine because I've written 1650 - so the mean for my library appears to be just over 1. I'm not sure that is accurate though - maybe not updated? because some have 100s of reviews which is enough to bump the average up a lot on a small library.
>3 lorax: - how did you median number? I can't sort my library by no.reviews, unless I'm missing a heading somewhere. It's not even easy to get to the mean, I have just under 2000 books excluding wishlist etc. I think from the Reviews tab of my profile there are 1220, but maybe that's excluding mine because I've written 1650 - so the mean for my library appears to be just over 1. I'm not sure that is accurate though - maybe not updated? because some have 100s of reviews which is enough to bump the average up a lot on a small library.
7lorax
reading_fox (#6):
I can't sort my library by no.reviews, unless I'm missing a heading somewhere.
You can't do it by clicking on a column header, you need to use the sort arrow button next to Power Edit.
I can't sort my library by no.reviews, unless I'm missing a heading somewhere.
You can't do it by clicking on a column header, you need to use the sort arrow button next to Power Edit.
8bnielsen
>6 reading_fox: If you go to your review page: (i.e. here's mine) and chose Show All.
https://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=bnielsen
some the books have notes like "2 other reviews".
So if you have reviewed all your books you can edit that page and do the arithmetic.
I don't think there's any statistics on this otherwise?
https://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=bnielsen
some the books have notes like "2 other reviews".
So if you have reviewed all your books you can edit that page and do the arithmetic.
I don't think there's any statistics on this otherwise?
9conceptDawg
For a little raw database info:
There are reviews for 1,371,999 distinct works. That means a vast majority of works on LT don't have reviews. That's not surprising because the long tail of LT's data is quite long indeed, with many items at the very end being various kinds of detritus (test data, non-books cataloged by members, manually entered books that aren't publicly available, etc. etc.). But 1.4M works have at least one review and that's pretty good.
This means that if a book has a review then the average number of reviews for that book is roughly 3.2 reviews. But it's certainly another case of a long-tail distribution, likely with a few books having a lot of reviews and most of them having one.
(none of these numbers take into account review flagging)
There are reviews for 1,371,999 distinct works. That means a vast majority of works on LT don't have reviews. That's not surprising because the long tail of LT's data is quite long indeed, with many items at the very end being various kinds of detritus (test data, non-books cataloged by members, manually entered books that aren't publicly available, etc. etc.). But 1.4M works have at least one review and that's pretty good.
This means that if a book has a review then the average number of reviews for that book is roughly 3.2 reviews. But it's certainly another case of a long-tail distribution, likely with a few books having a lot of reviews and most of them having one.
(none of these numbers take into account review flagging)
10reading_fox
>7 lorax: even after all the years here I learn something new - I didn't know that button had items unavailable on the main views.
I have highly reviewed books - 12 over 1000, and median of 13 reviews per book!
>8 bnielsen: I'm working (well it's more of an aspiration) on reviewing all my books, but there's still along way to go.
I have highly reviewed books - 12 over 1000, and median of 13 reviews per book!
>8 bnielsen: I'm working (well it's more of an aspiration) on reviewing all my books, but there's still along way to go.
