Russell Beattie Notebook

Mobdex: Most Popular Books

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 5:59 AM

So I took a quick survey of how the Mobdex feeds are going and queried for all the books that have gotten to at least page 2, and most have actually gone to page 3 already. Here's the list of the most popular books so far by number of subscriptions:

• 8 - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• 5 - Around the World in 80 Days
• 4 - Art of War, The
• 3 - Wuthering Heights
• 2 - Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The
• 2 - Time Machine, The
• 2 - Beyond Good and Evil
• 1 - Songs of Innocence and Experience
• 1 - Sense and Sensibility
• 1 - Prince, The
• 1 - Mysterious Island, The
• 1 - Moby Dick
• 1 - Marvelous Land of Oz, The
• 1 - Is Shakespeare Dead?
• 1 - Howard's End
• 1 - History of the United States [1492-1775]
• 1 - Hamlet
• 1 - Great Expectations
• 1 - Star Dragon
• 1 - Diary of a U-boat Commander, The
• 1 - Death of Socrates: Apology
• 1 - Damsel in Distress
• 1 - Book of Mormon, The
• 1 - Swoop, The
• 1 - Two Gentlemen of Verona
• 1 - Ulysses
• 1 - Utopia
• 1 - Argonautica, The
• 1 - Anthem
• 1 - Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The

It's pretty interesting to see what people think are worth subscribing to... Really culls out the cruft.

-Russ