Peak days amusements:
2
3
5
7
11
13
17
19
53
73
101
103
107
109
113
127
131
137
139
149
157
163
179
These are produced using JavaScript with a little data structure. (Haven't yet decided if I should include a live version running the actual code.)
2020-01-01 status
2020-02-02 status
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2020-06-06 status
2020-07-07 status
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2021-01-13 status
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2022-07-31 status
2022-09-01 status [Whoops, forgot to make 2022-10-02. Too much trouble to reconstruct now...]
2022-11-03 status
2022-12-04 status
2023-01-05 status [Whoops again. Missed February...]
2023-03-07 status Gave up on this utility as one of the computers involved
entered into it's death throes. For now I'm updating the perpetual calendar version (linked below) as I update books,
but I'm also desperately seeking a replacement app... After so many years this website is definitely on its last legs.
2023-04-08 status
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2024-01-17 status
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2024-04-20 status
More thanks to Tripod (again), though I'm not understanding how they do things... I never did get a clear answer if paying for a website on Tripod would have had the same or a similar result.
So here's what I'm going to do: NOT mess with things. Like they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm going to leave the links to the standalone HTML I generated by running PERL locally, but if you want new results, you should be able to get it straight from the horse's webform's mouth at the bottom. (Also I'm going to stop with the manual updating of the standalone HTML but just upload the data files from time to time.)
The end-of-service part of the PERL/CGI was kind of clumsy, but I suppose they didn't really know what they were doing by the time. I suspect the people who originally set it up had moved to better things long before the plug got pulled, eh? (As of 23 June 2016, the entire website seems to be on its last legs...)
Basically this search engine was just my personal convenience thing, but I'm adding this parting note because I had used the result URLs a number of times over the years in email sent to friends. However, now I realize that they will not see this message unless I figure out how to create some kind of fake result file that will lead them back here...
After Tripod killed the PERL part (with the last death sometime in 2014?), I diddled around for a while, but have yet (as of mid-2015) to replace it in any proper sense. My most recent diddle was to learn how to run it locally. That means I can create new results on a less convenient and less dynamic basis, but it's also an example of what PERL can do...
2024 books
2023 books
2022 books
2021 books
2020 books
2019 books
2018 books
Three years from 2019 to 2021 by Date Read
2021 books sorted by title
2017 books
2016 books
2015 books
2014 books read up to early October
All of 2014 in alphabetic order
All of 2013 in alphabetic order (Personal best, as in largest number.)
2012
2011
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1982
1976
1975
1974
1972
1971
From the beginning up to August 2014 (This spans from its start on a typewriter in 1971, through the PL/C version, dBase II, and then the second (third?) back end in PERL.)
June 2015 books (Just a monthly sample.)