Vilken bok blir sommarens mest olästa ?

I Wall Street Journal lanseras en mätmetod för att avgöra vilken bok som blir sommarens mest olästa. Kanske inte helt vetenskapligt i varje detalj men…såhär:

It’s beach time, and you’ve probably already scanned a hundred lists of summer reads. Sadly overlooked is that other crucial literary category: the summer non-read, the book that you pick up, all full of ambition, at the beginning of June and put away, the bookmark now and forever halfway through chapter 1, on Labor Day. The classic of this genre is Stephen Hawking’s ”A Brief History of Time,” widely called ”the most unread book of all time.” How can we find today’s greatest non-reads? Amazon’s ”Popular Highlights” feature provides one quick and dirty measure. Every book’s Kindle page lists the five passages most highlighted by readers. If every reader is getting to the end, those highlights could be scattered throughout the length of the book. If nobody has made it past the introduction, the popular highlights will be clustered at the beginning. Thus, the Hawking Index (HI): Take the page numbers of a book’s five top highlights, average them, and divide by the number of pages in the whole book. The higher the number, the more of the book we’re guessing most people are likely to have read.

Vem ligger i topp ? Piketty tippar Jordan Ellenberg, matematikprofessor som lanserat ”the most unread”-analysen.

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