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# 18 novels in my Pocket
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/12/18_novels_in_my_pocket/
- Published: 2013-12-16T11:13:32.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:08:27.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: instapaper, metrics, Pocket, Publishing, read it later services

It’s that time of the year when some of the social services you use start sending you stats. The one I got from Pocket – a “save and read it later” service – was actually quite eye-opening…

![Pocket consumption stats](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/12/pocket-stats.png?resize=675%2C394)852,713 words! That’s a fair few books right there – and that’s not counting the material I consumed staright away in my feed reader and never got as far as Pocket-ing. And, indeed, all the unread items that are still in my Pocket…

You can [see the stats in full](http://getpocket.com/stats/dMMcKc8?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), if you wish, but there’s not a lot more.

One of the reasons I’ve switched to Pocket from Instapaper is this stats element. They have a good [stats service for publishers](http://getpocket.com/publisher/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), for example, that gives you a sense of how often people are consuming your articles in their service. Here’s how it’s looking for me right now:

![Pocket Publisher Stats](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/12/pocket-publisher-stats.png?resize=675%2C404)As people’s reading tools diversify, I suspect being able to move easily through a range of analytics tools to get a complete picture of how and where your content is being consumed will become a core skill for publishers and editors.