Visual shelf analysis
Insights that lead to action.
A live visual reading of the collection: what dominates, what is arriving, what should be read first, how demanding the shelf is, where the Top 100 concentrates attention, and which authors recur.
10visual analyses
14subject colors
What should the charts count?
Choose the view you understand.
Different books counts each title once. Physical copies includes extra copies of the same title. The words “titles,” “holdings,” and “composition” are not used here.
01 · Subject balance
Where the shelf is deepest
Counting each different book once. Color always identifies the subject.
02 · Availability
What can be reached now
On shelf, still traveling, or represented in both states.
03 · Reading priority
What deserves attention next
A practical queue, not a claim that later books are unimportant.
Read first
32Read soon
106Read later
162Read at your pace
70Use when needed
1404 · How to read
The effort profile
The recommended way to use the book—not a genre or quality score.
157
Study carefully
41%124
Read with a goal
32%88
Read casually
23%15
Use as reference
4%05 · Purchase rhythm
When the current shelf was ordered
Each bar counts different books by recorded purchase month; the latest fourteen active months are shown.
12Dec 25
4Feb 26
8Apr 26
65May 26
63Jun 26
232Jul 26
06 · Recurring authors
Voices with more than one book
Top ten author names by different physical books.
07 · Reading languages
The language mix
Counts different books using the catalog language field.
English38099%
Spanish21%
Chinese10%
Spanish / English10%
08 · Top 100 subject focus
Where the essential list concentrates
Compare each subject’s share of all physical books with its share of the Top 100. A longer bright bar means the ranking gives that subject extra weight.
All physical booksTop 100
Psychology & Therapy
16/100
AI & Technology
14/100
Literature & Fiction
11/100
Relationships & Love
10/100
Software & Systems
10/100
Business & Strategy
9/100
Philosophy & Meaning
9/100
Gender & Society
8/100
Ideas & Society
6/100
Poetry
4/100
Productivity & Self-Development
2/100
Language & Reference
1/100
Writing & Communication
0/100
Health & Body
0/100
09 · Books still arriving
The incoming reading pipeline
Different books whose order status is on the way, grouped by subject.
10 · Top 100 access
Physical, digital, or both
A combined title appears once and is labeled Both.
83Physical
13Digital
4Both
The ranking is led by books already represented in the physical shelf, while selected Notion-only works fill important technical, gender, relationship, and psychology gaps.