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Why:

Goodreads assumes that you read from beginning to end. But I tend to read couple of pages here and there. This is my naive way to keep track of the progress.

Book details:

Title: Pandas 1.x Cookbook
Sub title: Practical recipes for scientific compuing, time series analysis, and exploratory data analysis using Python
Authors: Matt Harrison, Theodore Petrou
Edition: 2
Publisher: Packt
ISBN: 978-1-83921-310-6
Year: 2020
Pages: {total in pdf: 627, front matter: 1-21, content: 22-615, back matter: 616-627}
Why I wanted to read it in the first place:
- I was looking for books that discuss the pandas merge_asof() function and came across the first edition of this book.
- The second edition does not talk about the merge_asof(). But the pandas discussion seemed pretty comprehensive and interesting. So I want to read it from end to end.
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-11-12	[1-1]	[1-1]
2022-11-13	[x-xiv]	[x-xiv][1-1]

Book details:

Purchase details:

date	pages	overall progress
2022-11-08	[1-7]	[1-7]
2022-11-09	[8-8]	[1-8]
2022-11-13	[9-9]	[1-9]

Why I wanted to read it in the first place:
- I was looking for books that discusss the argparse.FileType() function and came across this.
- The discussion on pytest in Chapter 12 seems to be interesting.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-10-06	[16-23]	[16-23]	Uses Python 3.8

pages in pdf: 373

front matter: page 1- page 12; content: page 13 - page 363; back matter: page 364 - 373

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-06-17	[13-16]	[13-16]	Easy to understand. Seems like a book worth reading from end to end.
2022-07-25	[59]	[13-16], [59]
2022-07-27	[60],[17-20]	[13-20], [59-60]	The Socratic method of asking and answering questions is very helpful.
2022-10-02	[240-241]	[13-20], [59-60], [240-241]	Talks about “the equity method” of accounting for investments. I came across the latter in this Reuter's article.

Total positions in the ebook = 658; Using Calibre to store highlights.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-06-13	[1.0-5.0]	[1.0-5.0]
2022-06-14 08:00 AM	[5.1-14.6]	[1.0-14.6]	Have to start from “1.2 Trader Workstation and the TWS API” section onwards
2022-06-14 11:48 PM	[14.7-15.6]	[1.0-15.6]	Have to install TWS from https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=16042 and then read “1.2.1 Introducing Trader Workstation”