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How many books have you read?
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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.



If you want to count textbooks and the like, who knows. Actually the number probably wouldn't change if you included textbooks.

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.