We've been talking about books obtained, but roughly how many books do you read or listen to in an average year?

(Please boost widely for better sample size).

0 to 2
12.2%
3 to 12
32.3%
13 to 24
21%
25+
34.6%
Poll ended at .

@lordmatt
In 2019 I went through the effort to note every book I read. I don't feel it was an exceptional year.

I read 203 books in 2019, ranging from 120 page novellae to more than a million words of Worm (counted as one book) and another million words of a Worm fanfic (also counted as one book.) I read several comics and webcomics in groupings large enough to count as a book (usually six months at a time). I reread some books.

If I only got a few chapters into a book, I didn't count it. If I nearly finished it but gave up more than 3/4 through, I counted it. I read several books in the process of being published -- oh, including one I didn't count above. 204, then.

I read some terribly derivative professionally-published books, and some blazingly original self-pub.

It was almost all SF -- a little science, history, biography and autobio. To a first approximation, it was all electronic. I read on my phone, I read on my tablet, and I occasionally read on a giant monitor attached to my desktop computer -- comics are really good that way.

204 books in 365 days is 0.56 books a day. I read more on weekends than on weekdays. I read more on weekdays when I went into the office than when I worked from home -- I read on the commute.

@dashdsrdash commutes were invented for reading, surely.

@lordmatt

And thus public transit is justified.