A.
My reading time has been cut down by my work schedule. I’d love to have a day to just read.
C.
It might have been closer to D, but I moved last year and ruthlessly pruned my book collection. I’m also a fan of used book stores. Nothing beats a book for fifty cents!
B. (The Dope is taking a lot of my reading time. My reading time is basically all time while not working or sleeping.)
E.
E.
I was well into adulthood before I met people who didn’t read constantly. I never thought it unusual that my whole family are voracious readers. I’m a bit of a snob on that topic - I don’t understand people who don’t avail themselves of the opportunities that are waiting for them at their local libraries.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in the past year?
A. Under 30 B. 30 - 100
C. 100 - 250
D. 250 - 500
E. Over 500, easy
Note: I don’t count re-reading a book as reading a book. It’s faster, and less of an investment of attention and time. It’s better than not reading at all, but it’s not the same thing as reading a new book.
2. About how many books would you say you currently own?
A. Under 50
B. 50 - 200
C. 200 - 500 D. 500 - 1200
E. Over 1200, easy
This is more a reflection of my constant use of book recyclers than a sign that I wouldn’t keep my apartment/room/house/barn full of books if I could. And I’m always cursing myself for getting rid of a book that I want to reread, now.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in your lifetime (thus far)?
A. Under 300
B. 300 - 800
C. 800 - 1500
D. 1500 - 2500 E Over 2500, easy
I read everywhere, and almost constantly. The house of my childhood was a new build house my parents had customized before it was finished - they had the walls of the family room and the living room built with bookshelves. And they were filled with books. I remember being shocked one time when I friend came over for a first visit and looked at awe at the books, and asked: “Wow, are those all the books your parents own?”
“No! There’s more still in basement.” I was afraid he thought that we didn’t have enough books.
I read constantly, but unfortunately it’s airport fast food shit. They invented the “trade this book in for another at another airport bookstore” schtick for me, so I neither remember them, nor keep them. Books I keep deserve their status. In my life? Maybe D. I can’t in good conscience declare E - I was a delinquent for quite a while, and I’m not 40 yet.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in the past year?
A. Under 30
B. 30 - 100 C. 100 - 250
D. 250 - 500
E. Over 500, easy
I average 2-3 books per week, so roughly between 100-150 in the last year.
About how many books would you say you currently own?
A. Under 50 B. 50 - 200
C. 200 - 500
D. 500 - 1200
E. Over 1200, easy
I really wouldn’t know a number. My wife and I combined our books when we moved in together years ago. I realized awhile back though that all my books were just cluttering up space and I was never going to re-read 95% of them again so I started selling them, giving them away, trading them in. I only own fiction books that are particularly special to me and non-fiction books that I know I’ll reference again at some point. I’d say somewhere around 100. That’s not counting comics or graphic novels of course. That would put it into the thousands.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in your lifetime (thus far)?
A. Under 300
B. 300 - 800
C. 800 - 1500 D. 1500 - 2500
E Over 2500, easy
A very rough estimate. I figured I started taking reading seriously when I was about 10 - 17 years ago - and I multiplied the weeks since then by 2.5 and got 2210. I think 2 to 3 per week is a decent average but it might be a little ambitious. I’m sure weeks went by when I was a teenager where I didn’t read much at all, but there have been weeks in my 20s when I’ve literally read 10 books. When I first moved to Arizona I had no friends no job and I wasn’t in school - I read 4 books in a day once.
Since August 22, 2007? It’s roughly 90 to 110. I typically read about two books a week but there are some weeks where I’ve had to slow down and others where I’ve got an extra one in.
I have about two hundred immediately at hand, then there’s the living room, the ones in storage, and so on. I think I’m around 1000 in total.
Tough to say. At some point they kind of start blurring. I’d put myself down for around 2000.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in the past year?
B. 30 - 100
(Checking my book journal, it’s 58 books I read for the first time. I don’t keep track of books I reread, so I would add about another 15.)
About how many books would you say you currently own?
D. 500 - 1200
(1,153)
About how many books would you say you’ve read in your lifetime (thus far)?
E Over 2500, easy
This year, we moved and my commute (by train) is somewhat longer. While it does have it’s downsides, a big plus is the increased time for reading!
A - this has been a slow year, lot’s of personal transition.
Very close to E. Our house is full of nooks, crannies and rooms full of bookshelves with not only books but rocks, antiques and rarities scattered among the books.
A, out of necessity. I read too fast to keep myself in books by any reasonable means, so reading has become something I do on occasion, rather than all the time. I used to read more as a kid, but when you can go through the average novel in <2 days, it’s hard ot keep yourself occupied that way.
C. I usually do a purge every once in a while of books that I haven’t read in a while or that I feel I’ve outgrown. I just don’t have the room (well, not unless I want to purge my anime collection. No freaking way.)
Gonna go with E because I can’t guess with any degree of accuracy. If I haven’t broken it yet, I will eventually.
About how many books would you say you’ve read in the past year?
B. 30 - 100
About how many books would you say you currently own?
B. 50 - 200
About how many books would you say you’ve read in your lifetime (thus far)?
E Over 2500, easy
Move the qualifier of “150 pages” and the number of books I’ve read should jump quite a bit - I was a VORACIOUS reader as a child, from the age of 4, and the number of books that I read from the school library, bought from one of the various scholastics/reader clubs, etc will add quite a bit to the total.
But it is “Over 2,500, easy.” Take the number of years that I’ve been reading books of 150+ pages, divide it into 2,500, and you come up with about 75 books a year… which is easily attainable.
B. 30 - 100
Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to read for pleasure much in the last 6 years because of school. I’m at the low end of the B range, and most of them have been for various classes.
E. Over 1200, easy
I believe after my last purge/sell-off, I had around 1500 volumes left in my personal library. This doesn’t count other things-- a few hundred comic strip compilation books, a few hundred graphic novels, about 100 volumes of various math references and texts, etc.
For me, reading is the cheapest, most readily available form of entertainment, escapism and enlightenment, I have yet encountered. Especially if you have a library ticket.
