How many books have you ever read in your life!

Hi All,

I have read 601books in my life! How do I know ...
My bedroom is filled with books. the 601 does not
include those boring textbooks and resources books!

I am a self trained speed reader...I can read a 500page
book in 2days or less.

So how many books have you read?...

don't think it is a very easy thing to track.

I dont know, I read 5 books on Wedensday :lol:... I dont bother to keep track of how many I read every week its exahsting... There was a time when I tried to keep track and but I hate maths and it sort of took the pleasure out of it!:)
What exactly is speed reading I mean I can read 114 pages normal size in just under an hour, usually .

Hello speedwhiz, welcome to the forums. I'm proud to say I am _not_ a speed reader, more of a normal speed I guess and I have no idea how many books I've read, but have a number on the go at any given time.

Don't know how many I've read but I try to read at least a book a week.

Not sure. 200+ probably. I've read close to 20 this year alone.

I cannot even guess how many books I have read in my life, though I know I have enjoyed reading and writing for as long as I can remember.
I can speed-read with some material, such as some easier fiction, but as for more difficult reading, such as philosophy and some poetry, I enjoy reading it more qualitatively than quantitatively, absorbing each word. This would definitely explain why a collection of poetry, or some brilliant work of philosophy or non-fiction may take me an extra amount of time to read.
Welcome to the forum, speedwhiz. :)

As mono said, I have no idea...
When I was younger, let's say from when I was 7 to 15, I could read up to 4-5 books per week... Now I'm 'lucky' if I read one per month...it sometimes take me long to read a book now, but most of the time I just don't start any cos I am very easily distracted and I have many distracting things to do, and most of all I'd neglect the studying if I read books for myself. Now I feel the urge to read something relaxing but I'm busy preparing an exam. So I read more than I realise, I just don't count schoolwork as 'reading', unless it's a novel/fiction.

It's really hard to say, but if I was to take a guess...around one thousand, perhaps? That seems like a rather high number for one of only sixteen years, but I suppose it is possible though.

601 books? yikes! how do you keep count to that? I read about 6-8 books... yea, there's that inferior feeling again! but I didn't start reading books seriously until the 10-11th grade... and I only recently finished High-School.

As for speed.. I can relate to what mono wrote.

I wouldn't even guess at how many thousands of books I've read.

When I was young I was a speed reader, but that made it difficult to think about what I was reading, so I slowed my reading speed down, and sometimes I stop reading to think about what I am reading. I don't read fast, but I usually get a lot out of what I am reading.

I had never even thought about reading being vaguely related to speed...I've always just read.

No idea whatsoever about how many books I read and I don't really care if it's 10 or 10 000. Re the speed thing, I just read at what speed the book seems to ask for, some books read really fast, some read very slow while I can't chose which one I prefer more. What Koa said... I just read.

I started keeping track of the books I read about five years ago (it's somehow so satisfying to have a list, but then, I am a compulsive list keeper), and there are currently 435 lines in the spreadsheet. Granted, I tried to remember as many novels as I could from my past, but that's not a very successful endeaver. And some lines say things like "The entire series of Nancy Drew books" :p. So who knows?

A bunch! I've read a bunch of books, and I hope I have time to read a bunch more books! I'm going to need time too, because I'm not a speed reader any way you slice it.

I think counting of books read can seem quite relative. As you mentioned, Snukes, while reading the series of Nancy Drew books, does one necessarily count that as one, since together they prove one continuous story, or as multiple? Additionally, for example, I have seen Dante Alighier's The Divine Comedy split into three separate books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
The length of books must also contribute to a number's relativity; the short length of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (which I once read in one sitting) seems no less a book than Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.