how many books a year do you read?

[mister_noel_y2k]

im one of those weirdos who gets through 60-70 books a year. how bout the rest of you? :banana:

[Jester]

Wow thats a lot, i get around to reading maybe twenty to thirty, depends on how my year goes...!

[baddad]

Hmmmm.......if a weirdo reads 60-70 books a year........I am in some serious trouble...

If I am not in classes, i read 3-5 books a week.......sometimes more if it is really simplistic, or rather short. I go to the library once a week. I have library cards from four different provinces in Canada (I travel a little).....

I have kept up this voracious pace (more or less)since I learned to read as a youngster. Never has a week of my life gone by since then, when I have not read a book.

So what catagory does that put me into?

[papayahed]

Hmmmm.......if a weirdo reads 60-70 books a year........I am in some serious trouble...

If I am not in classes, i read 3-5 books a week.......sometimes more if it is really simplistic, or rather short. I go to the library once a week. I have library cards from four different provinces in Canada (I travel a little).....

I have kept up this voracious pace (more or less)since I learned to read as a youngster. Never has a week of my life gone by since then, when I have not read a book.

So what catagory does that put me into?

Is that a rhetorical question?

[GreenDog]

I used to read about 70 books a year until I went to ht University, now the number dropped to about 30, unless you count textbooks and articles…
I it sad really, the university is supposed to crate educated people, but my general knowledge is actually worse the before.

[subterranean]

I managed to read more than 50 a year before I started working. Now I hardly have time to finish a book within a week :(.

[Bongitybongbong]

I read about 30-50 books in a year.

[mono]

Hmmm, it depends with me. If I feel like it, I can read 1-2 books every week or two, but that seems only if I have the time (reciprocating with school). While going to school full-time, however, I read through about 3-5 books per month.

[Sitaram]

Quantity is good, but quality is better. Tradition has it that Plato re-wrote the first page of the Republic 50 times. The story might be apocryphal, but consider how long various authors have labored on their book. Gibbon worked 20 years on "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." When he finally sent it to press, he commented that the work of writing had been his daily companion, and it was like he had now lost an old friend. When one of the members of Parliament met Gibbon in a pub, he blustered: "Another d@mn fat book, eh, Mr. Gibbon! Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh Mr. Gibbon."

Mortimer Adler wrote "How to Read a Book." I noticed the entire text available on line for free at of all places a Korean/Japanese site (I cant tell them apart).

[Helga]

I usually have about 3-7 books going at a time and I finish them in about a month or so, depends on school... I would read a lot more if I had the time.. it is about 30-50 a year I think but it's always getting less and less as school goes on.

[Zooey]

I used to read about 70 books a year until I went to ht University, now the number dropped to about 30, unless you count textbooks and articles…
I it sad really, the university is supposed to crate educated people, but my general knowledge is actually worse the before. A similar point struck me this last week as well. I'm lucky enough to be majoring in Literature, but after all the reading I do for my classes, I don't actually have time time to read what I want, or for pleasure. Isn't there something wrong there?

[mister_noel_y2k]

seems like theres a lot of young people on this board. myself being 20 and studying history and english at the university of the west of england in bristol how about the rest of you?

and yeah its a ***** having to read so many uni books and articles but on the whole ive discovered lots about history that i didnt know and now appreciate as well as new ways to look at literature. but i do manage to squeeze in the odd novel or two that i would like to read myself now and then. :banana:

[ihaveaheadache]

Hmm... didn't really read a lot last year or the year before that or the year before that because I was too busy playing videoga-- because I was to busy doing stuff. This year I made a New Year's Resolution to read more books, though, and so far so good. I've read 10 books already. :) Not a lot compared to some of you guys, but good enough for me.

[avid reader]

right now i read somewhere between 50 and 70 books a year. unfortunatly i think that will probably change one i get to college in the fall :(

[amuse]

i was a bookworm once upon a time. then in early 2002 i got a computer. :(

[Taliesin]

How are We supposed to count all of them. If We were forced to say We suppose that it is about a hundred plus/minus twenty?


And now the next question of the day: How many centimeters of book a year do you read when we suppose that it is A5 format and size 12 normal text.

[baddad]

Hmm... didn't really read a lot last year or the year before that or the year before that because I was too busy playing videoga-- because I was to busy doing stuff. This year I made a New Year's Resolution to read more books, though, and so far so good. I've read 10 books already. :) Not a lot compared to some of you guys, but good enough for me.

Welcome to the board, welcome back to the reading habit!! Reading ANYTHING is beneficial and can be enlightening. REAding ten books is immeasureably better than not reading at all. Feel good about reading 10 more books than those who have read nothing! Reading is a dying art, or at least seems to be threatened as a passtime, but it is an incredibly powerful medium. Enjoy!

I think it was the comedian, Groucho Marx, who many years ago said, "Television makes me smarter. Whenever anyone turns one on, I go to another room and read a book!".................Here here!!!

[baddad]

How are We supposed to count all of them. If We were forced to say We suppose that it is about a hundred plus/minus twenty?


And now the next question of the day: How many centimeters of book a year do you read when we suppose that it is A5 format and size 12 normal text.


.....Hmmmmmm.........reading in metric..........reading by the lineal foot......and next, reading by the cubic metre......'We' await the results.....

P.S. What exactly is A5 format?

[subterranean]

Isnt that somekind of a size of paper?

[papayahed]

Do you guys buy all these books? or get them from the library?

[subterranean]

Mostly bought them at stores for me..

[Bongitybongbong]

Library or "borrow" from friends.

[Scheherazade]

LiBrArY!

*does a 'Give me an L, now an I...' routine and cheers for libraries*

"Love thy library." as old scripts suggest.

[ihaveaheadache]

I think if we bought all the books we have/will read, we'd go bankrupt.

[mono]

Do you guys buy all these books? or get them from the library?
I usually prefer buying my books, especially reference, poetry, and philosophy, so, if needed, I may refer to it, having it available; but some fiction I can read without owning.

[Bongitybongbong]

Yeah but you should copy the book for further reference if it from the library.

[bouquin]

I read about 40 to 50 books a year. That's my record for the past 3 years, it used to be a lot lower when I was still working.

[Niamh]

I read too many. i've probably read around the one hundred mark this year.

[Andy3003]

"It's better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially"

(If anyone knows where that quote came from they can have a pat on the back from me)

[Shannanigan]

A similar point struck me this last week as well. I'm lucky enough to be majoring in Literature, but after all the reading I do for my classes, I don't actually have time time to read what I want, or for pleasure. Isn't there something wrong there?

Aw, man you guys are all so impressive! I'm sure before college and the internet I read a lot of books as well, at least one every ten days, but now I'd be shocked if I read 15 pleasure books in 2006. Most of my reading, besides class assigned reading and text books, I do during the summertime and my winter break (like right now) and once those breaks are over, reading time is over. It's sad, really. I do read a LOT of articles on the web, though, and not just for school. I like to read the stories on MSN's and Yahoo's main pages and whenever I hear something interesting on TV I'll Google search it...

I wonder if I'll ever be able to read that much again. Right now I'm trying to figure out when I'll have time to get to the gym! :p

[Erna]

Somewhere around 40 books a year, mostly bought, sometimes borrowed from friends.

[Yelena]

wow, somebody told me that only a few people read books now, and you guys prove that person wrong. its so nice to know there are ppl who actually enjoy reading.
as many of the university students here, i dont have much time for reading books i want. it's really sad. so i read about 20-30 books a year...which isn't really that bad...

[JaneEyre1986]

I don't know how many a year, but I'd say anywhere from 20-30. I also have 2 part time jobs, and am active in my church. I don't have a lot of time to read, but I try to make time.

[Petrarch's Love]

What a question! I've read three books so far this year, and have to read another this evening to prepare for class (that is if you count a Shakespeare play as a whole book). Yes, graduate students have no life. :lol: Don't ask me this question come December. :eek:

[ktd222]

I don't read much at all! I know that's not good, but I write a lot.

[euterpe]

I have no idea how many books I read in a year...I don't read a set amount per week...it depends on how busy I am. I've read 7 books over the holidays.

[grace86]

I probably have to agree with JaneEyre, I'm a full time student, got a full time job, and my weekends are filled with worship practice and church, and fiance and family. I probably get about 30 a year - if I'm lucky. I'm on my way to finishing two in just my Christmas break alone. Hoping for three.

[higley]

You know, I didn't even think about how many I've read this year until I was practically tripping over "books read in 2006" lists floating around blogs/journals/whatnot. It gave me the thought that I should keep a list for my own amusement, to look back on at the end of the year.

Guessing, this year I've read approx. eighty, maybe more. This is not because I have time, it's because I have no self-control. :p But I don't let it cut into my classes, studying, work, family time, or church stuff.

[Schokokeks]

Somewhere around 40 books a year...
Same for me. Since I've started university in October, I'm actually even reading more than before, due to hours and hours on the bus...
I usually borrow them from the library, because I don't have that much space to store bought copies, but that has the disadvantage that, especially with English books in Germany, I can only get hold of very old editions (like the 1884's Lady of the Lake :rolleyes:), which sometimes is not so satisfying as buying a recently released copy - especially with Shakespeare, where at least I need decent annotations.
But if I bought all the books I read, I'd be broker than broke by now :lol:.

[F.Emerald]

I get through about four average sized books a month, which adds up to about fifty a year. When there are thousands of books out there you've yet to discover, that seems rather few and disappointing. But it's important to remember that the more time spent on the book, the longer it's a part of your life, and therefore the more intimacy and attatchment.

[blackbird_9]

Sadly, I only get around to finishing about 20-30 books a year. My job keeps me pretty busy, but there is also the fact that (perhaps some of you might have the same problem and can make me feel not so alone), despite my love for reading and having spent all my free time reading since the age of 12, I read so slowly!!! I don't understand it. A night of good solid reading before bed will only get me maybe 100 pages into the book. Of course, this varies on the difficulty of the book, but still... I'm the only person I know that the saying "the more you read the faster you read" doesn't apply. It's ever so depressing. :(

[higley]

Sadly, I only get around to finishing about 20-30 books a year. My job keeps me pretty busy, but there is also the fact that (perhaps some of you might have the same problem and can make me feel not so alone), despite my love for reading and having spent all my free time reading since the age of 12, I read so slowly!!! I don't understand it. A night of good solid reading before bed will only get me maybe 100 pages into the book. Of course, this varies on the difficulty of the book, but still... I'm the only person I know that the saying "the more you read the faster you read" doesn't apply. It's ever so depressing. :(

F.Emerald, who posted above you, said something really smart: "But it's important to remember that the more time spent on the book, the longer it's a part of your life, and therefore the more intimacy and attachment." If you read more slowly, it's not bad. You're just taking more in. :)

[blackbird_9]

F.Emerald, who posted above you, said something really smart: "But it's important to remember that the more time spent on the book, the longer it's a part of your life, and therefore the more intimacy and attachment." If you read more slowly, it's not bad. You're just taking more in. :)

Excelent point! Thank you. I'm going to write that on my book marks to keep me optomistic. :D

[alhara]

I go through fazes I like series (i.e. anne rice, lord of the rings, harry potter, the forsyte saga) I love any thing with a continuation of characters. but in the past five months i have read 25 novels so if i continue at this rate i will read about 50 a year but I try not to keep count. so far you are 20 ahead of me but whats 20 novels between friends aye, and your not weird unless you think you lose some individual appreciation in reading so many books a year(something I sometimes feel) theres nothing wrong with that your just alittle ahead of the rest of us at attempting to read everything ever writen.(which is a common goal i think in a literature forum) i agree it gives you more time to enjoy it. and for those of you who are too buesy to read i have two words for you AUDIO BOOKS. walk, work, wash dishes, do laundry just about any mindless task while reading. not only does it makes chores more fun but it alows you to increases your yearly reading output. p.s i'm listeining to one right now

[malwethien]

I read 19 books in 2006

[Idril]

I read 58 books in 2006 (I keep a journal so the exact number is easy to find). I tend to be a fairly fast reader and I do wonder if I get all I can out of a book going through them as fast as I sometimes do but when I made an effort to slow down, I got horribly bored and was easily distracted. :p It takes me twice as long to get through the first half of a book than it does the second half, at that point I'm so anxious to find out what happens I'm like a speeding train.

[EAP]

I read around 100-110 books during 2006, about the same in 2005, 150+ in 2004 and 30 odd in 2002-2003.

[Annamariah]

(I keep a journal so the exact number is easy to find).

Me too! I've done it for some years now. :D In 2006 I read 101 books, 29 419 pages. I'm trying to read at least one hundred books every year. I used to read even more (in 2003 I read 177 books, 42 108 pages), but nowadays school takes too much of my time and reading for exams (I'm having my matriculation examinations this year) doesn't leave too much time for pleasure reading :(

[summer grace]

I don't even know, but many. I don't how I get the time, but this past year alone, I managed to became familiar with many subjects such as the Vanderbilts, the Fitzgeralds and their books, and Anne Sexton, which I never knew about before. I most like to read non fiction or poetry.

[dramasnot6]

In the US, before i came here and made myself go insane with studying +schoolwork, i read about 50 books a year. Now it's probably gone down to 20-30 a year, including the novels i have to read for Lit. When i graduate hopefully i can go for 70 a year, that would be heaven. Anything more I don't think i'm capable of even with loads of free time.

[LPRox015]

I read 120 books a year. I try to read more but it's really hard with work and school. Sometimes I go over that amount but on the average I read 120. :) I am a true book worm! Woot! Woot!

[Scheherazade]

I think counting the pages we read, rather than the books, is a much better idea; it is a better measure. But of course that brings in the questions of the sizes of the pages, font type and size...

[papayahed]

I only read 13! That can't be right? But I've kept a log...

[malwethien]

I keep a log too...and I've only read 19 books last year..even though I read a new one right after I've finished with one....How can you guys read 100+ books a year? You must be really, really fast readers! :)

[dramasnot6]

I think counting the pages we read, rather than the books, is a much better idea; it is a better measure. But of course that brings in the questions of the sizes of the pages, font type and size...

Maybe we should count words Scher :lol:

[Boogie]

I read about a book every three days, but some are the same books over and over, so, about 100 books a year.

[the Last 13]

one since the new year started ...but I got about 30 books kicking around that I havn't read yet....I'll burn through them soon enough....um last year probably read about 40 books give or take a few....but I've been playing alot of videogames and watching movies too...nevermind work cuz i can do whatever I want there...but hope to read about 80+ this year(not including a few re-reads)...just gotta find stuff that keeps me interested..

[the Last 13]

a log...good idea

[Chell53]

I read a helluva lot at the moment, in the last year I've probably read close to 100 books, but I'm a literature student so it's kinda my thing to be always reading something.

[LazarusLong]

I read 100+

[McGrain]

I only read 20ish last year but they included Joyce's Ulysses and Tolstoy's War and Peace, so i'm quite happy with that!

[grace86]

I only read 20ish last year but they included Joyce's Ulysses and Tolstoy's War and Peace, so i'm quite happy with that!

That's quite a feat considering it took me like three months to finish Anna Karenina...and you read two rather large novels.

[SFG75]

Twenty isn't a shabby number. Especially when you consider that you have a thing known as a "life" that places other demands on you.;)

[McGrain]

Twenty isn't a shabby number. Especially when you consider that you have a thing known as a "life" that places other demands on you.;)


Inconvinient, isn't it?

[McGrain]

That's quite a feat considering it took me like three months to finish Anna Karenina...and you read two rather large novels.


I've never read Anna yet. War and Peace took me from September through to December, Ulysses came in more quickly but it was my second time around.

[philipkd]

You said 60-70? Are you retired? I only manage 10-20 and that means few movies/ gaming for me already . Jut wondering how you manage it.

(I"m younger than you and working)

[Taliesin]

We have kept a list in our blog since last October, there are about 40 books in the list now, so we guess that it is about 90 per year since we'll probably have more time in summer to read.

[Alexei]

Hmm, I don't know for sure, but probably they are at least sixty. Only for march I have read four books up to now, and I shall probably finish the fith till tomorrow. I don't know I may be have to start to make a list.

[Niamh]

I've already lost count for this year. Had counted eight for the month of january but the last two months have been a sleepy blur to me and i lost track.

[jimbone11]

some of those totals are quite high. if it's an average size book (100-600) pages I would probably read about 70 in a year. But over the last year books like war and peace, anna karenina, and the decline and fall of the roman empire, have taken me some time to finish. (the print/length of some of the history I've read makes it seem like I'm reading them part-time forever, but still worth it).

Probably read 100 books in 2005, spent and equal time reading in 2006, and perhaps read 40 or 50.

"It is much easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet it is essential."
Sir William Osler

"For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect, and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering it over later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."
Arthur Schopenhauer

[JBI]

I think counting the pages we read, rather than the books, is a much better idea; it is a better measure. But of course that brings in the questions of the sizes of the pages, font type and size...

Or the difficulty of the text. 10,000 Dan Brown pages = 500 Descartes pages (you get what I mean)

[McGrain]

Or the difficulty of the text. 10,000 Dan Brown pages = 500 Descartes pages (you get what I mean)

This is my favourite equation ever.

[andave_ya]

brilliant equation!

I'm not completely sure how many books I read yearly; probably at least 80.

[*Classic*Charm*]

The number is going to be significantly smaller this year- I've devoted the year to epic poetry, though I do keep getting sidetracked by novels as well.

[Katie-Lou]

I used to read about 10 a year but since the truck load of work and wanting to sleep a bit more its probably less. I enjoy reading a book slowly so i can analyse it as i read rather than rush it.

[Domer121]

Not as much as I would like.....ummmmmmm 20-30./.

[Moira]

I have never counted the number of books i usually read and i am convinced the number is not important at all. The only thing that matters is what you are left with after reading a book. If the answer is nothing .... it doesn't really count.

[Domer121]

I will agree with you... though it helps to understand more of the universal through reading many books. though there is much to be learned from the outside world that is only one part of knowledge.. I think that books are a key element to understanding ourselves and others.. just as in talking with someone... I think to be able to understand what you read is a talent in and of itself.. St Thomas Aquinas always said he was most grateful that he was able to understand what he read.
So I guess the balance of what you attain from literature and the outside world helps, some are more gifted in the understanding of the outside world than literature and vice versa...so I guess the amount of books that is helpful to read is different for each person.....But yes, understanding what you read is most important..I mean, why else do we read? Why would you want to read if you didn't get something from the work>??

[AChristieFan]

I tend to listen to a lot of books in a years time because I perfer to read than watch t.v. But if you need a number it would be 15.:) :) :)

[Moira]

I will agree with you... though it helps to understand more of the universal through reading many books. though there is much to be learned from the outside world that is only one part of knowledge.. I think that books are a key element to understanding ourselves and others.. just as in talking with someone... I think to be able to understand what you read is a talent in and of itself.. St Thomas Aquinas always said he was most grateful that he was able to understand what he read.
So I guess the balance of what you attain from literature and the outside world helps, some are more gifted in the understanding of the outside world than literature and vice versa...so I guess the amount of books that is helpful to read is different for each person.....But yes, understanding what you read is most important..I mean, why else do we read? Why would you want to read if you didn't get something from the work>??


I completely agree with what you said here. It’s one of the pleasures in life I will never give up and one that gives me immense satisfaction. I do believe with all my heart that books help us better understand others and ourselves and also give us new perspectives in life.
With books I love I feel like I have wrote them myself…

[BroadwayBaby]

a lot... in short I don't know, probably close to a hundred...

[Mortis Anarchy]

a lot... in short I don't know, probably close to a hundred...

yep...maybe more.

[ozbey]

about 30-40 books in a year.

[aabbcc]

A couple of times I actually counted how much I read; I went through my reading journals and divided the number of books read in given period of time by the number of weeks in that given period of time, so I got the result of average 4-5 (4 point something, actually) books per week.

I am not, however, concerned about the quantity as much about enjoying the work; there are books I can finish within hours, and those with whom I spend a couple of months.

[MaryEliFit]

I'm still trying to break my record from when I was 12, I read over 100 books. I can never do it since I'm so busy now with school and all that stuff.

[Bakiryu]

I read 2 or three books a day. Thank goddess i have such a bad memory, I reread the same books as well :) In school I check out two every day and in summer I always buy more for my collection. I would have to say over 500 a year or so.

[dumwitliteratur]

I'm a big book worm and a complete dork if I do say so myself :lol: I'd have to say that I read at least 250 books a year. Maybe more. I can read a book in one night...usually in 4 or five hours so I practically read a new book every day but I don't read EVERY day...just most of the time...actually I'm going to go do that right now :D

[higley]

I think I hit close to eighty last year, but that was mainly due to discovering new favorite authors and immediately reading everything else they've read.

This year I'm trying for the 50 book challenge, but I don't know if I'll make it. Work and school keep me busy. Plus, I keep getting out 800+ page books with tiny print, or I'll read something that's like "the complete works of" or being comprised of several different novels and feel guilty if I count it as more than one book, so I don't. :p I also don't count anything under 200 pages. Or rereads. Anyone else have this habit?

[smartgirl]

I count rereads, but I can't remember if I've read it 2 times or 3. Last year I read over 100 books, but this year. It's been hard. Now that I'm going to be a freshmen, with lots of AP classes. I don't think that I'll be able to keep up with some of my friends, that read 100-200 books a year.

[farnoosh]

I count rereads, but I can't remember if I've read it 2 times or 3. Last year I read over 100 books, but this year. It's been hard. Now that I'm going to be a freshmen, with lots of AP classes. I don't think that I'll be able to keep up with some of my friends, that read 100-200 books a year.

well ,maybe you have o make time
and i read ,i think 100-101 a year

[hedbanger]

Honestly? Five or six. xD

[Dori]

I'm reading the classics right now, so I would say 40-50 is my goal this year. There's no way I'm finishing something like Les Miserables in a day. For some reason I read more when I'm busy. I also am involved in sports and do very well in school, so I typically get 3-4 hours of free time per day.

[applepie]

Can I just say too many??? I don't really have a good count, but I go through at least twenty books a month so... close to five hundred. They range from craft books, to fiction, to classics, to just brainless amusement. Most of the books are informational on my hobbies of cooking, crocheting, quilting, and kids crafts to do with my son. I go through maybe fifteen to twenty books like this a month so they make up the majority of my reading.

[Elinor Dashwood]

I used to read a lot more before going to uni, so now iv graduated i hope to read at least 3 per month, iv only read 10 books so far this year which is quite bad for me! By the end of the year I hope to have read 30 - well iv got 5 and a half months so fingers crossed!!

[grace86]

I used to read a lot more before going to uni, so now iv graduated i hope to read at least 3 per month, iv only read 10 books so far this year which is quite bad for me! By the end of the year I hope to have read 30 - well iv got 5 and a half months so fingers crossed!!

University definitely gets the better of your reading time.

From June to August, so far I plan on reading six books...so that is like two a month. Not highly advanced in the number, but sometimes, with school and such, it is hard to get down one a month.

Hmm but short stories and now poetry...well...that will be a different thread.

[ravilobo]

I keep a log of all the books I have read so far. Every time I finish a book, I make an entry in the book.

I was going through the log, and found that I read on an average 25 books a year.

1. How many books do you read a year? (No audio, only printed material)
2. On average how many books does a person reads in his entire life?

[Sapphire]

I myself read about 1 book a day in holidays, to not read for a few weeks after having done so. Then I read about 2 books a weak. I do not keep a log, so this is just a guess. That would make about 200 books a year I think (not all considered "literature" and comic books excluded) ...

On average in his/her entire life? No clue, really, no clue. But maybe you could look at the replies you get on the first answer in this thread, multiply that by the years a person is able to read (from age 8 to 80 maybe?) and get some sort of idea?! Just a thought, I am very sure it is not scientiffic reliable ;)

I think everybody has a different "reading habit". Some people read a lot, others do not. Some only read on holidays, some read always. Some people do not even read. For example, it has never happened but I do not think it impossible that I might stop reading for some years. Keeping that in mind, the way I read now might not be representable for my entire lifespan.

[ravilobo]

200 books a year
200 books a year is a huge number! You probably come in top 10 readers category. Surely, you have not read – War and Peace. ;-)

[Sapphire]

:lol: Actually, I did and I enjoyed it :) I think it took me 2 days. I liked the parts about War the best ;)

Surely 200 is not that much? I guess it's because I travel quite a bit: 2 hours in the train every (work) day really helps to keep reading :p

[Mariamosis]

I tend to read on average 5-7 a month. Multiply that by 12.... anywhere from 60 - 84. I imagine these numbers vary depending on my schedule during the month. However, I have only within the last year developed this habit so it would be hard to determine a lifetime estimate of reading.

200 is a nice number and a number I wish I could acquire time to live up to.

[jekan blazer]

this yer i have read exaxctly 28 books... and thats in just three months!!!!

[kiki1982]

Ok, this year is my record year already...

Since April last year (so coming on to April now) I have read:

Twenty Years Later
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne
In between that Pride and Prejudice (that was a record... Less than a week)
The Siege of Lisbon
Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Brideshead Revisited
Sense and Sensibility
and now Ivanhoe

In between still King Lear, Manfred and Cain.

I am really doing English classics now... I am thinking of doing the Notre Dame by Hugo next... I fI don't get another fancy, like the other day... What was it, oh yes, The Scarlet Pimpernel! Persuasion is still on the shelf and as I am harassing the BBC until they make a good constume drama I have to read Emma before their (probably ghastly) version comes on the screen. :D

But really, I might consider myself a very slow reader if I see how many books others read in a year...

[K.K.]

I generally read between 40-50 over the course of a year, but, of course, that number fluctuates. I also read a number of short stories that are not part of collections or anthologies.

[K.M Roberston]

I use to read tons and tons of books, nowadays I've turned to more writing them than reading them...But still about 50+ not including school books

[higley]

I read quickly but am so incredibly picky about what I choose that I only hit about 35 per year.

[crystalmoonshin]

When I was a kid, I used to read around 2-3 books a day. I was a fan of Alex Mack, Animorphs, Bailey School Kids, Spooksville, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Fear Street, Sweet Valley (Kids, Twins, High), The Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, etc.

And then the number of books read declined with each passing year.

I now read just about 70-80 books a year, schoolbooks not included.

[Rogers_68]

Do you guys buy all these books? or get them from the library?

I usually buy them second hand:
*during used book store sales,
*at thrift stores,
*at library book sales,
*with gift cards obtained at Christmas and birthdays,

or I get them via BookMooch.

I used to read a couple of books a year until about two years ago, when I got hooked on fiction. In 2007 I read about twenty-six. Last year I read forty. This year--having taking the time to read Ulysses, and having books such as Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow and Les Miserables on the shelf to read--I'll probably read about twenty or so.

[Apocrypha75]

I'm averaging about 1 book a week, dependent on length and struggle-factor. :) I buy most of my books from a great little charity shop that rotor their stock on a weekly basis; otherwise it's good 'ole Amazon. :)

[MissScarlett]

I don't read as many book each year as I'd like because I'm too busy with my clothing line and coming up with new designs, etc., but I guess I average only 30-40/year. Maybe only 20-30. Far fewer than most of you. I buy mine at Amazon.

[Tsuyoiko]

I aim to read a book every week, on average, so in a year I'll read about 50.

[Chava]

Wow, it used to be between 40-50 books, inspite of there being a time where I even had to prioritise which homework I had time for!
Some how, uni just exhausts me though, so i really have to make an effort to read, making it only about a book a month. 12 books in a year, that's so sad, but then add to it all the hundreds upon hundreds of pages of dense economics i have to read per week :)

[PositiveEnergy]

I read about 30-40 a year. All are used/second hand. I get mine from novelaction.com and library sales.

[grotto]

It depends, I stopped counting the books, but I know I read between 400 and 500 pages a week. So some would be two weeks to read, and others, two books a week.

[Ultravox]

I'm a lit student and I always moan about not having enough time to read the books that I want to read but in all actuality, if I combined the time that I waste browsing the internet and watching TV I'd have plenty. :crash:

I'd say I read 1, maybe 2 per month so anywhere between 10 and 20 a year I would imagine.

[jekan blazer]

i am at 30 books as of 4-1-09... i started on 1-1-09...my goal is 10 books a month, so thats a whopping 120 books!!!!


Do you guys buy all these books? or get them from the library?

yes and no... i borrow half of them... the other half i buy...