Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Number of titles in collection: 3,685 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 965 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,720 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 524 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 8,845 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,737 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 490 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,134 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,293 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x01 Where Were We? [2nd watch]
2x02 The Scorpion and the Toad [2nd watch]

Poker Face
2x06 Sloppy Joseph

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x96 Champions Week 3: Monday
9x97 Champions Week 3: Tuesday
9x98 Champions Week 3: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.20–24

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
9x95 Champions Week 2: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.14–19

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.7–13

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
II. Stardock pp.1–6

Stardock is about the same length as Ill Met in Lankhmar, which I did read in one sitting; but it’s not that much shorter than Adept’s Gambit, which I did not. However, like the former and unlike the latter, it does not have chapters, hence page numbers.

TV

Critical Role
4x12 The Giant's Belt [2nd half]
Watching one episode a month is not a great way to go about catching up.
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or for subscribers on Beacon or Twitch.]

Critical Role Cooldown
Campaign 4, Episode 12
[Watch it (again) on Beacon.]

Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
I. In the Witch's Tent

After a little time off for some other books, it's back to Nehwon for the fourth volume of adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. This is a low-key start — a "short story" so short that it barely qualifies as a story — but next up is one of the longest tales so far.

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.

Films

A Wednesday (2008)
[#21 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2026 #2

Non-Fiction

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Chapters 23–26
Epilogue [the end]

This being a non-fiction / journalistic / historiographic work, there's also an extensive amount of notes and bibliography at the end. Some of it looked quite interesting, but other bits are dry citations, and my Kindle said it was over an hour of reading time — it wasn't that interesting.

Audiobook

Doctor Who: The Code of Flesh
written by Andrew Lane, read by Dan Starkey

I've been meaning to continue these audio-exclusive 8th Doctor adventures ever since I listened to the first two-and-a-half years ago. Yes, I know that's ridiculous; but hey, I got here eventually. Hopefully I won't leave it so long before the next one (there are four in this sequence, so far) because they're quite good.

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition