A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It tells a story. Hardcover files this book as fiction. A fact, not a factor: it plays no part in our call.
Not enough to go on
A complete reading of this book exists, in Audible’s American shop. We search only the British shop for readings (American listeners are added to a reading once the British shop turns it up), and the British shop has no English reading of this one. So we have never measured it, and we will not pick a format on a recording we have not measured. The gap is ours, not the book’s.
What you can do If you can buy from Audible’s American shop, the complete reading is on sale there. It simply comes with no take from us, either way.
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Length does not decide this
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The reading time is our estimate: 496 pages at 30 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute. There is no runtime to set beside it, which also means no way to check how much of a book is on one of its pages.The reading time is our estimate: 496 pages at 40 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute. There is no runtime to set beside it, which also means no way to check how much of a book is on one of its pages.The reading time is our estimate: 496 pages at 50 pages an hour, which is about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute. There is no runtime to set beside it, which also means no way to check how much of a book is on one of its pages.The reading time is our estimate: 496 pages at 65 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute. There is no runtime to set beside it, which also means no way to check how much of a book is on one of its pages.The reading time is our estimate: 496 pages at 80 pages an hour, the pace you told us. Ours is 50, about 300 words a page, read at 250 a minute. There is no runtime to set beside it, which also means no way to check how much of a book is on one of its pages.
Reading load against listening load
We hold no recording of this one, so “In your ears” and “Audio disadvantage” are what we would expect of a recording of it: read off how the book itself reads, and never measured against a reading that exists.
Where that puts this one among the books we hold: in the middle 40% of our shelf of books on both counts (effort on the page and effort in your ears). The middle of the scale is not the middle of the shelf (most books sit below the average on both), so a book at 0.00 is already in the top 43% for effort on the page. Each of the three is measured against the whole shelf separately, so the bottom figure is not the top two subtracted. It is this book’s own distance from the middle.
What the audio disadvantage is made of. Two things and no others: how fast readers say this one moves, and how demanding the reviews we read found it. There is no third: the structural one has no data source, so it contributes nothing rather than being guessed at. Both directions are declared priors we have never fitted against a real verdict, which is the weakest-evidenced part of the whole model.
How the call was made
Where a bar carries ticks, the grey one is the middle of our shelf and a coloured one is a line we publish, cool where we start backing the page, warm where we start backing the recording. The evidence squares at the foot are a different thing: how far each of our four sources went, hatched where there was nothing to measure at all.
- What is at stake
- 0.57It sits in the top 32% of our shelf of books for how well the print crowds think of a book: well enough regarded that a wasted first encounter costs more, so we lean towards protecting the page. Blended across 533,573 Goodreads ratings and 353 on Hardcover, each scored inside its own population first, and never added together.
- Evidence
- 0.30How much of the picture we actually have, out of 1.00: four questions, each answered as far as the source could answer it, less anything taken off for reading fewer reviews than we aim to.The readingnot measured: there is no recording of this one to attestThe second sourceHardcover knows this book, with 353 readers there: as good as it getsThe matchnot measured: with no recording, there was nothing to matchThe reviewsWe read 300 reviews to judge how demanding it is: as good as it getsWe are also missing something we treat as essential: no reading we have measured, because the one that exists is in a shop we do not search; too little of the record overall.
What each crowd complains about
In the reviews we read, how often readers brought it up and how often listeners did, each against what is usual for that same crowd across our whole shelf, which is the grey tick. The track stops at 4×. Listeners are only ever compared with listeners.
Listeners of this book bring up keeping the names straight about twice as often as listeners usually do, while readers of it bring it up less often than readers usually do.
What the two crowds said
the book itselfGoodreads
the book itself, against Goodreads’ own crowd
533,573 ratings