Ratebeer Readers discussion
How many books have you read?
date
newest »
newest »
God I don't know. I've added pretty much every book I own that I've read, but haven't included lots of textbooks that I read in college or HS that I've forgotten about and/or don't own. Haven't added a great many kid's books. I'm guessing my number would be under 1000 as well, probably 700-800 or so. But it's complicated as I have a lot of anthologies, collections of essays etc that I've read most of but not all; hard to decide whether to "count" such things.My reading dropped off considerably around 1987-1989, finishing school and getting hard-core into movies is what did it. Don't know if I'll ever get back to where I was as a kid; I didn't have access to all of the time wasters/other hobbies that I do now, then.
Lots but I doubt more than a couple hundred. I read fanatically as a kid but not so much later on. There was a while where I don't think I was reading anything at all, 'cept internets...
Less than the # of beers I have rated but more than the # of books I have rated on this site. This site is great because I have been seeing some books I read a long time ago and completely forgot about.
probably a few hundred...If you want to count textbooks and the like, who knows. Actually the number probably wouldn't change if you included textbooks.
Numbers that people are posting here are lower than I would have expected so I am a little uncertain what an accurate guess would be for me. I know that my wife and I have close to two thousand books in the house, but that includes her compulsive collection of cookbooks that is over a couple hundred.
We do have duplicates between us.
If Muzzlehatch figures he has read 700 or 800, I wouldn't dare go over that....Unless I get to count most of the Hardy Boys Mystery series that I read in the 1960s.
When we were talking about adding books early on, I said that I'd read "thousands" of books, but the more I think about it, that can't be right. I'm guessing it's closer to actually being 1000, probably somewhat less. I basically read constantly until I was 16 or so, when I started devoting most of that extra time to playing guitar. I read pretty much every book in the house in addition to using the school library a lot; I even read the World Book encyclopedia we had at home in entirety! Since that age, I've slowed and probably averaged more like 1-2 books a month, not counting things I read for school. Lately it's been closer to 1/month, but I'm hoping this site will keep me more motivated - so far it's working.
Obviously many of you will have read a lot more; both because of being more devoted readers and because of having some years on me.