How do I see a list of an overview of how many books I have got from different book stores

Is there a way of seeing a list of all the book stores I have purchased books from, ranked in order of how many I bought from each store?

I am sure I've found this before but I can't intuit how I arrived at this page...

How are you recording which bookstores you bought them from? In tags? In comments?

It does not seem to be in charts and graphs, but you can sort by From where? in your catalogue. That gives you part of what you want.

>2 Aquila: How are you recording which bookstores you bought them from? In tags? In comments?

There is a field for that, "From Where." If you haven't been entering them, it's on the "Edit Your Book" page, under "Dates" (where you can also record where you got the book." Obviously you could also do it in tags or comments, but the From Where field is convenient not only because it's its own field but because it keeps track of all the places you've gotten books in the past. You can even sort it by frequency.

There's a graph/table for that under Charts and graphs > Cataloging.

https://www.librarything.com/stats/Shemthepenman/cataloging

>5 Petroglyph: Thanks for the info! I had no idea that was available!

Yeah, From where? is a great field, but sadly did not appear in LT until some years after my initial cataloging effort. So I lack that data for most of my earlier books.

>7 paradoxosalpha: Yeah, From where? is a great field, but sadly did not appear in LT until some years after my initial cataloging effort. So I lack that data for most of my earlier books.

And I lack it for a lot of books because I got them so long ago that I don't have a clue where I acquired them. :-) But if one has to add the data anyway, then it's the obvious place to put it.

>8 waltzmn: Ditto. Most of my SFF hard copies were purchased (if new) mainly from Andromeda in Birmingham, Forever People in Bristol, Dark they Were and Golden Eyed, The Fantasy Centre and Forbidden Planet in London. Only the last is still open. If they have price stickers I should be able to fill it in next time I do an inventory, but I couldn't tell you when I made the purchase; after 1976 is the best I can do (apart from The Dragon in the Sea which I got from a charity booksale at school when I was around 15 or so).

2nd hand paperbacks I have no hope of remembering when and where from: charity shops, 2nd hand bookstalls in various markets...

I managed to pull the ebook data where the store was still open, but a lot I am missing 'from where' - they were usually freebies of one kind or another.

>9 Maddz: Most of mine have "From Where" field blank, but I put "Mom and Dad" for books I got when I moved out and even "garage sale" for some.

>6 Charon07:

Glad to be of help! Have a poke around the other subsections there.

>8 waltzmn:, >9 Maddz:, >10 elorin:

I usually keep the receipts and place them inside physical books somewhere. So at my next reorganisation / reassessment I might feel up to filling some gaps in my catalogue.

>2 Aquila: in the field where it allows you enter "purchased from"

Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction.

I'd never noticed the 'From Where" field either. Now I'm testing my memory and adding it for some of my books. Thanks.