2024 Year in Review Now Live!

Hey All! We're pleased to announce that our Year in Review feature has returned, after debuting last year.

The 2024 Year in Review is now available! Check it out to see the highlights of what you've contributed to LibraryThing this year, including what you've read and added. We've got charts, graphs, and even a compilation of your 2024 book covers. https://www.librarything.com/stats/MEMBERNAME/year

Awesome, but it's giving me a 2023 review.

>1 AbigailAdams26: Mine says "Welcome to your LibraryThing 2023 Year in Review" so either the title or the contents are wrong :-)

Checking ... I'm with >2 igorken: i.e. it's giving me the 2023 version.

>2 igorken: >3 bnielsen: I see 2024 for both of you, but we're looking into it.

2023 for me too.

This should be fixed, but please let me know if you're still seeing 2023.

>6 AbigailAdams26: Switched to 2024 for me now (was 2023 when the thread opened)

>7 AnnieMod: Excellent!

Very nice. It switched to 2024 for me too.

I say it all the time, I love Librarything...

I love this.

>6 AbigailAdams26:

It's fixed for me, too, and I can verify that it formerly listed my 2023 books and now lists my 2024 books.

>6 AbigailAdams26: Yay!

I see a Regenerate button at the bottom of the page; after completing reading and reviewing in December, will regenerating update the stats through all of 2024?

>14 elenchus: It updated with books I added since first looking at it yesterday, so it looks like it.

>14 elenchus: Yes! It can be updated, to include everything you've done since it was first generated.

I knew I had done a lot of reading this year, but I am pleasantly surprised to find that it was over 20,000 pages.

The debut of this feature last year was my motivation to finally enter reading dates, which I had not done previously. (I think my LT cataloging habits were first formed before reading dates were added to the database.) In addition to current reading, I went back and added many "Finished Reading" dates based on review dates, since I have long been in the habit of posting a review within a few days of finishing a read. I haven't completed all of that back data, but I've entered a decade of it now.

The "Books Added" details are a little funny, in that they are really "Books Cataloged," so they include the sum of books acquired, borrowed (and returned), and merely wish-listed. I am gratified to see that while my Books Read is a bit less than my Books Added, it is in fact more than my actual books acquired--derived by dropping wishlist and borrowed titles.

Edited to correct: It looks like Wishlist books are excluded from Books Added. But there are definitely a bunch of titles there that I have borrowed and returned, which are therefore in my Read and Unowned collection, and not in My Library.

The review for me was books I read in 2024 and it provided me an overview of what types of books I read and motivation to set reading goals for 2025.

Doe sit keep refreshing up until the 31st? I'll get several more books in before then!

It refreshes when you hit the refresh button at the foot of the page.

On my Year in Review page, it says: "Last year, you read 8 books. You read 64 more books this year. Great job!"

I have in fact read 72 books in 2024, but according to my Reading Dates breakdown in Charts & Graphs, I read 57 books in 2023, which seems like a far more accurate count. Any idea why Year in Review claims it was only 8?

>21 paradoxosalpha: Yes, 49 of them only have end dates, not starting dates.

>22 anglemark:

Ah, good diagnosis. Well, I'm unlikely to invent those data, so the odd inaccuracy will have to stand, I guess. I'm glad that the general Reading Dates totals in Charts & Graphs don't have this demand.

>21 paradoxosalpha: The 2023 year in review just needed to be regenerated. I'm pretty sure it uses the same logic as the Charts & Graphs except that Charts & Graphs is generated when the page loads and the year in review is stored in the database so we don't have to calculate all the data every time.

Does this mean that the 2023 data disappeared? I wish we had a slect button for the year, where we could see each year we chose, not just the current one, is it possible?

(and yes, there are still 2 whole weeks until the 31st, I'll definitely need to refresh the current picture!)

EDIT: ignore me, I found the link to 2023 right at the very end, oops sorry!

>24 knerd.knitter:

Ah, 2023 does now say 57 for me in all relevant locations! Thanks.

This is such a fun thing to scroll through. Love these year end charts. Thank you!

I enjoy scrolling through this too! Just one question: under "Reviews and Ratings for 2024", the first review listed is from April 2009. The same book is shown as my first review of 2023. I'm not sure why it's pulling this book and wonder if there's a way to correct it.

Oh, I LOVE this! Especially all the covers. 😍

>28 lauralkeet: It's probably a reread, with both reading dates entered. Not sure why it pulls both and if perhaps we should report it as a bug. I ended up deleting my previous reading date because it annoyed me to see duplicate stat for unrelated year

>30 SandraArdnas: Thanks, but it's not a re-read. The book (The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti) has only one reading date: finished 20 April 2009. My data for books read in 2024 is correct. So this is something specific to the review.

I'm mentioning this here as a bug because I didn't see a thread in the Bug Collectors group. If there's somewhere else I should report this, please let me know.

>31 lauralkeet: Your review of The Shipyard looks like it doesn't have a date on it. If I sort all of your reviews by date it shows up at the bottom, past the reviews that are older.

You could try making a small edit to the review and then saving, though that would probably change the date of the review to today

>32 norabelle414: I am not sure that an update will fix the date - when I got one of mine caught into this bug (the non-assignment of dates) a few years back, the only thing that fixed it was to delete and add again the whole book (deleting the review did not help either). The bug causing that is long fixed (I think) but there are still reviews out there caught into that :(

I’d leave that for someone in LT to look at and see if they can fix that date from their end maybe?

>32 norabelle414:, >33 AnnieMod: Thanks Nora and Annie. I had no idea the review had no date, or that it was related to a bug from several years ago. What's the best way for me to request LT help on this?

>34 lauralkeet: They’d probably see it here but if they don’t, either open a bug report or send a mail. I’d do that after the holidays though - I don’t expect most people to work much next week. :)

Oh for sure. Thanks for pointing me in a direction though.

>28 lauralkeet: I made a fix for this so that undated reviews don't get included.

>37 knerd.knitter: Oh wow, thank you so much!!!

I love this so much!

As usual, you give us something wonderful and we immediately ask for more . . . How about getting a summary for the end of every month?

There is a much more detailed breakdown of "Added in 2025" books than there is of "Read in 2025." I know that "Added" only works for those who track reading dates--a practice to which this feature converted me last year. But it would be nice to have things like the book stack and genre breakdown for books read as well as books added.