We are talking less about books now. The number of book mentions in the site peaked in 2022 and has been decreasing steadily. Is this another effect of LLMs?
For all books, I summed their # of mentions across the years. The data show an increasing trend, peaking in 2022 and then decreasing since then:
2007: 1,062
2008: 3,248
2009: 5,206
2010: 8,942
2011: 8,330
2012: 8,200
2013: 9,808
2014: 10,436
2015: 12,618
2016: 14,173
2017: 15,231
2018: 18,001
2019: 17,928
2020: 19,613
2021: 19,996
2022: 22,797
2023: 20,178
2024: 16,103
2025: 13,738
2026*: 11,482