Love Books Daily

Sources

Sources and methods

Every number on Love Books Daily comes from the public datasets below. Each page names the ones it uses at the bottom.

  1. Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings)
    Open Library / Internet Archive. Dump of 2026-09-30. Titles, authors, first publication year, and each English print edition's number_of_pages, format, publisher and year. Reading-log and rating counts rank books by popularity. No descriptions or cover images are used.
    Licence: Public domain / CC0 1.0: Open Library's FAQ says its catalogue was dedicated to the public domain and asks contributions under CC0; the Internet Archive asserts no rights over the database (openlibrary.org/help/faq/using, /developers/licensing) · cited on 4,393 pages
  2. How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate
    Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019). Average adult silent reading rate in English: 238 words per minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. Used as the default speed.
    Licence: Cited (published research) · cited on 4,392 pages
  3. Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal
    Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors. Which books belong to a series and their number in it, matched to Open Library by the Open Library ID (P648). Queried 2026-10-22.
    Licence: CC0 1.0 · cited on 561 pages