# What Page Are You on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398 "2022-01-26T04:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/21 "2022-01-26T19:19:48Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > some may be ashamed to admit their lowbrow or depraved tastes. [Bugs Bunny] "He don’t know me very well, do he? [/BB] 😉 I’m currently on page 316 of The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, so slightly past the midpoint. I’m deeply engrossed in the story, but life has really interfered with my reading time lately. (Jeez, I’m bleeding adverbs today). I read for pleasure, so have little compunction about finishing what I start. If I’m not grooving on something, it’s ditched. I quit Heart of Darkness just a few pages from the end. I’m a rebel, you can’t change me! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/22 "2022-01-26T19:41:59Z")
I usually have 3-4 books going at a time, and I read over 100 a year, so you can’t draw a conclusion from my page number. For example, my current books are - The Cult of the Black Virgin, 13/336 (bathtub book) - The Travel Book: A Journey through Every Country in the World, 203/446 (treadmill book) - The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition, 231/480 (mix of audio and hardback) - The Way of the Wild Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago, 3/418 (will read all and review the pre-pub copy in the next week) ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/23 "2022-01-26T20:37:54Z")
This book doesn’t seem to have reliable page numbers, but I am at the part where the pages begin to ripple and bulge. Nah, just joshin’. I just started a murder mystery involving Edgar Allan Poe called On Night’s Shore. I am on page 8. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/24 "2022-01-26T21:26:10Z")
I’m on page 415 (of 576) of The Lincoln Highway. It’s for my book club, and I’m going to finish this bastard if it kills me. Towles’ book A Gentleman in Moscow is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I wanted to love this one, but it is a boring, pointless, wordy slog. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/25 "2022-01-27T01:11:45Z")
I’m on page 7 of the 3rd short story of Dorothy Parker’s _Here, Lies_. Can’t figure out how to get this ebook to display a page count for the book as a whole, but I’ll guess it’s about page 37 or so. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/26 "2022-01-27T01:28:41Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > To change it tap at the very bottom left corner of the screen, it’ll toggle between percentage, page number, time left in book (based on your average reading speed), and nothing. I think those are the choices. Heh. All these years I’ve just been occasionally, accidentally, tapping that corner I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/27 "2022-01-27T01:53:01Z")
I am on page 12 of “ **Grant** ”, by Ron Chernow. The book has 1104 pages. 1092 to go. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/28 "2022-01-27T01:59:03Z")
It took me many, many years and I finally happened to notice the Kindle thing. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/29 "2022-01-27T02:01:40Z")
Since “likelihood of finishing the book” was mentioned, I’ll report here that just a few minutes ago, I finished my aforementioned 152/231 book. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/30 "2022-01-27T02:12:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > And so it goes. The box was labeled “WW2 books.” Which, in a manner of speaking, isn’t completely wrong. Perhaps the collection was meant to be there all along. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/31 "2022-01-27T02:22:18Z")
I’m on Disk **3** of **15**. I know, _The Four Winds_ is a bit long. Hope I can get through it… . Notes: I need to work out more. That’s where I get most of my listening done. I might have to take a break and listen to _A Carnival of Snackery (Diaries, 2003–2020)_ by David Sedaris. If my hold at the library comes up sooner than I’d expected. It’s read by Tracy Ullmann! Oh, and I will definitely take a day off to finish _Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche._ It’s delightful, as is the Enola film. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/32 "2022-01-30T11:22:32Z")
Just following up my original post to report that I have now in fact read _Orange Is The New Black_ to the finish. I’m thinking now of resuming _Ulysses_ or _The Count of Monte Cristo_. I had read a bit over 200 pages of the former in 1989, and 500 of the latter in 2005. _War and Peace_ is probably a more realistic possibility. Since it has exactly 365 chapters, it lends itself perfectly to a chapter-a-day plan. It’s true I only ever kept to it through January 18, but I guess I can manage two a day for a couple of weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Yogeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yogeekgirl/32/4129_2.png) [@Yogeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398/33 "2022-01-30T12:29:02Z")
Page 212 of Edmund Bryant’s book on the Yoga Sutras (Patanjali and other sages’ commentary). Sutra 2:16- “Suffering that has yet to come can be avoided.” This is the chapter on Practice. A lot of statements about action/karma, if you want to be really general about it. Yoga philosophy! It’s fascinating (and sometimes way over my head.) This is a tough book to dive into and stick with. : ) I have to read a couple of pages and literally walk away so I don’t get too caught up or dull. Also on page 64 of Rise & Run.(Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky). It’s basically a coffee table cookbook made by 2 runners, one pro and the other a nutritionist mom. It’s geared to runners but I love the recipes and their ideas about healthy eating habits and noting what works for you. I’ve never been excited about cookbooks so this is the one, I guess that speaks to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-page-are-you-on/958398.md?page=1)