"How Many Books on the Napoleonic Period Do You Read?" Topic

How many per year, in an average year?

Zero.

Close to zero, maybe a Sharpe novel, but little history.

How many do I read? At the same time? In a year?

How many do I read? At the same time? In a year? Needed to re-word this one.

Question seems obvious to me. Four books in an average year.

Probably about 14. I alternate with fiction books and I always like to have a book 'on the go'..

I've probably read about 20 books on the Napoleonic wars in the last 15 years, so about 1 a year or so. For the last 5 years it has been maybe 1 so much less.

At least ten to twenty, not counting researching material.

Per year not that many, 2 mabye, used to be 5+ but as my interests spread, other periods also needs some reading.

Less than I used to, but I have read a lot over time. One or two a year now, mostly re-reads.

Cover to cover…. guess 8-10 books. Normally reading for background material on a specific historical battle to design a scenario. Seeking this information increases the book count for "partial reading" (i.e…. chapters) to 40 books in total, since I design and play one historical battle scenario per month on average. Typically need three to four book per scenario, sometimes more for a larger battle. Plus add in interest sources to the mix if they count towards total.

zero, ok maybe one on war of 1812

Quite a few over the years.

Lots.

Depends. Some years many. Some years lots.

I think maybe about five. I have to balance them with WW2, other historical topics and a certain amount of fiction. Otherwise I'm limited by budget and the scarcity of Napoleonic books from most of my American sources for books.

None.

These last few years as doing proper research, dozens. Unless some fellows stop occasionally to find more, it should calm down. More or less turning over itself soon.
A lot of ebooks, otherwise I have maybe 70 in paper in the game room.
Now just received 5 on the 30yw…

More likely to read about the War of 1812, if that counts. If so, maybe one. Left Napoleonics behind decades ago.

Four, cover to cover in 30 years of interest in Napoleonics. Basic stuff:

Swords Around Throne???(Etling?),
Campaigns(Chandler?),
Spanish Ulcer(Gates?),
Waterloo Companion(?)
A little Oman on Kindle.

Enough to have a basic understanding of the lead I'm pushing.

I have rather diverse interests so maybe 1 a year mixed in with everything else.

How many per decade? About 2. :^))

Or 0.2 per annum.:^))

3 in 40 years of gaming, so .075 per year.

Zero.

zero

Had some really strong years quite awhile ago.
Now I have a really solid reference library for the bits I'm interested in.

Close to zero-- I've read most of what I need to research my Napoleonic armies, and the wife (she used to be a book reviewer before retirement) is always encouraging me to read a variety of other types of works.

8

Probably average about half a dozen a year over each of the last 30 years.

Zero

not enough

Zero.

Golly, for once I'm impressed by me. I usually manage around 10 a year for the past 40+ years – I've got 4 in the hoist at the moment. It begs the question why some people read these Boards if they rarely/never read a book on the subject? Sorry to disappoint Brechtel198 and Gazzola, I do know a bit about the period.

I read what I can when I can but I don't keep count.

Not including Ospreys, Rule Sets, Army books, then about 5 books in the last 20 years.

I reckon on average about one a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I've been blogging about 6 years now, on mini-military stuff, in which time I've posted circa 60-70 book reviews on Napoleonic titles.

Six times twelve is 72… sounds about right. I find reviewing and posting on the books helps me internalise/remember them better. And of course there are occasionally some that I don't get around to reviewing.

I have a page listing them all, updated from time to time:

link

15 to twenty a year. This is my favorite period

Rather more than Mrs Handlebarbleep knows about. I've got knocking on for 1,500 If you count Ospreys and I estimate I've re-read a good 30% of them. Some of them take a while, so about a 80-100 a year? I've always got a minimum of two or three on the go.

At the moment they are: Dawson- Waterloo The Truth at Last
Muilwijk – Standing Firm at Waterloo
Dawson- Napoleon's Waterloo Army
Field-Waterloo: Rout or Retreat

You may detect a theme?

Waterloos something to with trains eh?

In my library collection >200; at the height about 20py: 20 year hiatus so catch up this year >8. Or does re-reading count ? Then it would be >>44.

I'm about to sell off non-essentials but retaining of course WW2; bios and th classics.
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@SHaT1984

Funny you should mention it, but the odd train spotter volume has cropped up as a Christmas presents over the years!