How many books have you ever read in your life!

[Adelheid]

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.

How typically singaporean, speedwhiz!

don't you ever remember reading a booking in assembly hall everyday???
ALMOST every singaporean wears glasses, lah! isn't it proof enough that they can read heapsss alright??

Not surprised that you've read so many.

Me? I've read so many (and reread even more times) that I've totally lost track.

[Vampire Kari]

I'm not sure how many books I've read but I know for a fact that it's ALOT.

[baddad]

.....bunches........scattered and massive dusty piles of books in my wake...........manymanymanymany.............severa l several thousands............40 or 50 fifty this year already......a virtual cornucopia of books.............so many that most are forgotten unless picked up years later, fresh reading is begun and the sense that yes, i've read this before is adamant, and then the fresh re-reading is continued and the book tossed into the pile when finished........I read so many books that I repeatedly hear lamentations from many whom I meet unable to find the time to indulge themselves, a rue of a life that reserves few moments shared with a book........Oh yeah baby....I'm hooked!!!!!! I wish to be buried with a book.

[ArcherSnake]

There's no way I could count the enormous number of books I have read in my entire life, but I know that in the past year I have read at least 45-50.

[Bianca Fransen]

Wow, difficult question. I am always with a book in my hand, but read quite slowly.. Maybe 2 or 3 books a week.. and when I studied Literature it was probably approximately 10 books a week for four years.. I am 28.. have read since I was 6. [Calculating now] about 3.000?? Ehm, that sounds like a lot. But then I count all my children's books and everything.

[underground]

can i also include those little golden books i read as a toddler?

well, i read a lot of series books when i was younger, and one series could be as many as 100 books, so if i include all of those, i have read, uh, enough. i started to make a list of the books i've read two years ago, but my lists are all over the place and i don't even know how many books are on those lists. (i don't have the books; i borrow most of the books i read from the library.) as for this year, i've been keeping an online list instead, which makes it look more organized and easy to track, and so far i've read ~60 books.

p.s. have you heard about that elementary school kid who reads 100 books a month?

[CheshireCat87]

what kind of question is that i mean even if you have all the books you've read in your life in your bed room r u including all the childrens stories you've read do you have good night moon up there if you do have all you throught your entire life then im not to sure that thats a very impressive number and what about the books that you have to read in school weither or not youve finish high school because u read atleast 7 book a in english usually 4 course books and 3 "private reading" (isn't all reading privated at that point in life) any way i've lost my self oh yeah um the average person probably reads 20 books a year now lets say your 35 so u should have read atleast 700 books but no one in their right mind would keep track of this and if you do than you really need to get out some more buy a dog or if contact with living things scares you than a plant but no mor of this how many books have you read in your life reading is not a compation its a way to relax and escape from life for a while.
end of rant and i've forgotten my point so i leave you now

[CheshireCat87]

what would posess you to become a speed reader

[underground]

um, person? i have no problem with the i-don't-know-the-shift-keys-exist mode, but where are your punctuation marks? i shall now recommend you a book by lynn truss called eats, shoots & leaves.

[scruffy_danny]

It's impossible to say how many books I've read but I try hard to get through one book a week. I think another important thing to consider is how many different genres and styles you have read. Reading all the same stuff, no matter how much you have read, is not as good as say reading less books but with more diversity in.

[samercury]

How many books have I read.... too many to count more than 2000 but less than 6000 is the closest I can come up with.

[yellowfeverlime]

I read 6 books a week, 3 on a bad week. So far, i can name 700

[yellowfeverlime]

But i'm sure i have read more, cause i have been counting for a few weeks, and i come up with 200 a week. Far-fetched but true.

[Pendragon]

Couldn't tell you. I could read by age 4. I was reading college level when other kids my age were struggling with the "Dick and Jane" series. The fact that I own around 4,000 books, and usually stay about 100 to 150 books behind on my reading all the time, may give you some indication. On my database of read books, and this does not include any I have check out of libraries, just the ones I own, I am up to number 1781, and I haven't entered them all. Since I'm disabled, and have been since 1994, and TV bores me, I read all the time. Sometimes, I can get a 400 page book in a day. Just depends on how interesting it is. Still 41 years of consistant reading is a lot of books!

[mickeymack]

I am with Cheshirecat on this one! Why even ask the question? It just brings out the braggart in everyone,as people vie with each other and lie claiming to have read more than each other leading to a debasing "literary" oneupmanship.Has anyone read David Flusfeder's THE GIFT? If you have you'll know what I mean.
1. Read.
2. Enjoy.
It's simple!