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I read constantly, buy 20 books a year, borrow 30 books a year from library (maybe underestimating this).
But internet reading should also count, not including Facebook lol.
I have learned a LOT researching on internet using trusted sources for health, financial, and so much more.
I search Amazon books then try and find it in my library system to borrow. If it's "must own" then I'll look to find a reasonably priced used book. Dead tree books are still there to read when the internet is down.
My spouse is not a big book reader so when I see a book he would get value from I'll try and find an audio-book. My hearing isn't great, his is excellent.
Here's the catch: Are they reading quickie paperback romances? Or 1000-page 19th century novels? Or heavy-duty socio-political tomes?
Interesting statistics, though.
Good point. At least half of the books I read are non-fiction, and these take me much longer to read than a Michael Connelly novel. Some of the biographies and histories I read are so dense that I "assign" myself 25 pages a day just to get through them. And ditto for, as you said, 19th century novels by Dickens or Hardy, for example. (Austen's were much easier, lol.)
I read 5-10 books a week; sometimes more. In fact, I was taking a shopping bag of books back to return to the library and a lady who was on the elevator with me said "Wow, you must be smart to have read all those". I told her "No, I just read really fast". I also keep books all over the house so I'm never without one. I go into withdrawal without a book at hand.
I actually own fewer than twenty printed books (plus loads more e-books, which don't need dusting)
I wish my BF would follow that method LOL. He has books that he reads AGAIN, years later.
I've gotten him to reduce the collection a little, but he still has little piles everywhere.
My number was 66 read and finished books for the year!
From my latest library receipt I saved $9,711.48 since I started using this particular library (Oct. 2020)
You must check out a bunch of books that you don't finish. Assume that reading rate was constant since October 2020. You'd have read a bit over 200 books over that timespan. That would price the average book at close to 50 bucks. 20-30 dollars seems to be a much more common price, so maybe you check out 2x more books than you finish. Which is actually a lower rate than mine would be, lol. I probably finish one book for every 7-8 I start. But I do read [parts of] books on a daily basis. Not sure how many completed books that actually translates to annually; my guess would be around 30 or so
I read constantly, buy 20 books a year, borrow 30 books a year from library (maybe underestimating this).
But internet reading should also count, not including Facebook lol.
I have learned a LOT researching on internet using trusted sources for health, financial, and so much more.
I search Amazon books then try and find it in my library system to borrow. If it's "must own" then I'll look to find a reasonably priced used book. Dead tree books are still there to read when the internet is down.
My spouse is not a big book reader so when I see a book he would get value from I'll try and find an audio-book. My hearing isn't great, his is excellent.
Dead tree books make for a far superior reading experience subjectively, and all the research I've ever seen indicates that retention is significantly better when reading from a printed page versus a screen
I'm definitely not in the top 1%. I really can't get an accurate count of how many books I read last year. I'm always reading three books at a time. An Audible account has really increased the number of books I read. I also read a lot of books on my Kindle and have been listening to audiobooks in the care for close to 15 years. I haven't read a fiction book in at least five years. Most of what I read is politics, history, business, and economics. I probably finish almost a book a week, so I'm estimating 40-45 books last year.
I actually tracked my reading in 2021, just to see how it was. I read 25 books that year, of which 20 were about World War II history and the rest were of some other kind of history. I probably did more or less the same in 2023. I love to read, but only about things that are of interest to me, so the vast majority of my reading is about World War II in the Pacific. Not counting school assignments, I've probably read maybe only a dozen or so fiction books in my entire life. Non-fiction is just so much more interesting to me.
Much as I love print books, an upcoming move is forcing me to downsize, and my extensive book collection was an obvious place to thin things out. I just got a Kindle last year and I'm already realizing that it comes with a number of advantages. I've seen the handwriting on the wall and I've decided to embrace it.
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