September 30th

Day 274, 0 pages
37.127 read, -0.123

September 29th

Day 273, 84 pages
37.127 read, -0.081
The Casual Vacancy 73-156

37 down, 13 to go!


September 28th

Day 272, 104 pages
37.043 read, -0.165
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 19-57
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling 8-72

36 down, 14 to go!


September 27th

Day 271, 230 pages
36.199 read, -0.227
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 329-401, 403-552, 12-18

On the surface it may look like I read more pages today than any other this year but that's misleading.  I did read a lot today, but not 230 pages worth, especially of the Aeneid! :O

What happened is, this translation of the Aeneid had beaucoup annotations, almost 150 pages worth (counting by text as epub does, so no extra space to fill up "pages" at the bottom).  That's almost as long as the epic itself!  The epic was about 240 pages long, the annotations a looong 150.

Anyway, I didn't want the bother of writing down my progress in the annotations every day.  The way it works on my ereader, I see an asterisk, I press it and it takes me to the pertinent annotation in the annotation section, then when I read it, I press the asterisk there and it takes me back to the page I was on.  So every day I can easily see where I've gotten to in the normal epic text, but would take a bit of work to figure the amount of annotation pages I'd read.  Not that much, but still, I just figured I'd rather not bother and then get a bonus amount of pages at the end.

Of course, starting out, I didn't realise there were so many, many annotations!  I thought I'd get a bonus of the tens, maybe 50 at the most, once I was done, and once I realised how lengthy they were going to be it was too late; I hadn't been keeping track of annotations read for individual days before so if I wanted to start now there was no easy way to split up what annotations I'd already read.

So all that to say, I finished the epic today (which started around page 60-something and finished at 401, of which I read the last 80 or so pages today, a good amount) and then I added all the annotations on, which took up pages 403-552.  Then, I started on the intro I saved until after, which starts on page 12.  And I'm glad I saved it too as it's going really in depth into each book/chapter and not only would it have spoiled the story for me completely, I can also get so much more out of it now having just read the epic.  Tell me again, why is the convention to put these essays as *introductions* when it's silly to read them before you read the actual book?  They should be afterwards.

September 26th

Day 270, 47 pages
35.229 read, -1.155
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 282-328

September 25th

Day 269, 50 pages
35.182 read, -1.160
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 232-281

September 24th

Day 268, 63 pages
35.132 read, -1.168
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 169-231

September 23rd

Day 267, 0 pages
35.069 read, -1.189

September 22nd

Day 266, 6 pages
35.069 read, -1.147
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 163-168

September 21st

Day 265, 0 pages
35.063 read, -1.153

September 20th

Day 264, 22 pages
35.063 read, -1.111
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 141-162

September 19th

Day 263, 8 pages
35.041 read, -1.091
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 133-140

35 down, 15 to go!


September 18th


Day 262, 45 pages
35.033 read, -1.057
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 88-132

September 17th


Day 261, 27 pages
34.248 read, -1.060
Aeneid by Virgil, Ahl translation 6-7, 61-62, 65-87

September 16th


Day 260, 15 pages
34.221 read, -1.045
Black Swan Green 576-590

September 1st

Day 245, 42 pages
30.240 read, -3.000
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 6-13, 20-53