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).
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).
@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.
And thus public transit is justified.