Okay, like the busy little bee I am I went out and found a different statistics counter that gives the specific IP addresses of each host, accumulates number of hits per host etc., and does not have a 1,000 page view dropoff. I think this has far better statistic handling, since it is the number of individual readers I am interested in tracking, not how many pages they look at in a single view. So I have put the new counter on the first book, "Taking Chances" and am gradually going backward, replacing the stats counter on "The Long Way Home."
And it excludes me so my stats don't count my own hits... so since I did that at 12:30, 25 different hosts have logged on... which means all of you Europeans and Aussies and ... lo an behold, someone from Czech Republic, and two different people from Russia, one lurker from Denmark! and a couple of early risers from America.