How many books have you read?

[E>M>M>A]

By guessing, if you don't know exactly, how many books do you think you've read?

One woman on Facebook has read 10,024 (something like that)

Me? I think I've read around 24. I'm 15 and I'm aiming for 100 books.

 

[sparkchaser]

Thousands.

I have never bothered to keep count.

Are you aiming to read 100 books this year? Before you graduate High School? Lifetime?

 

[beer good]

4,931 1/2.

 

[Litany]

8.

 

[Writer44]

How many books have I read? Hmmmm.... just enough to prop up that sagging corner of the house.

 

[Canker]

392 and yes I do keep track

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I've only been keeping accurate count of the books I have read since the beginning of 2007. Over my lifetime I'm sure it has reached in the thousands range by now.

 

[SFG75]

Good lord how do you keep track of that!? Do newspapers and magazines count?

 

[Canker]

I use an Excel spreadsheet like so. Thats my backup and a little behind. I use to just use a plain old txt file but it got fried and I had to go back and retype my list using an out of date back up. Since I had to retype a lot of it anyway I switched over to Excel and started adding more columns which are why there are lots ? marks.

 

[Peder]

Just an observation: if one read 50 books a year for 50 years, that would be 2500 books (wouldn't it?). My hat's off to anyone in the thousands!

 

[abecedarian]

Just an observation: if one read 50 books a year for 50 years, that would be 2500 books (wouldn't it?). My hat's off to anyone in the thousands!

That's what I was just calculating. Some years I've read lots more than 50 and I know there were a lot of years where I did good to read that many. I just wish I'd kept the kind of lists then that I have for the last five years or so. I literally cannot remember much of anything I read before.

 

[angerball]

No idea, as it's only recently that I've been keeping track. But counting books that I read from childhood, I'd probably say it was in the high hundreds.

 

[Anamnesis]

The closest thing resembling an answer would be "The high hundreds". Definitely not 10,024 . . .

 

[arnuld]

.. only 6 :blush:

 

[beer good]

.. only 6 :blush:

Well, it takes a brave man to admit that.

 

[Steph]

If I had to guess... close to a thousand. However, in my oppinion, it's about quality, not quantity.

 

[sparkchaser]

it's about quality, not quantity.

I wish you wold have told me that before I checked out those 75 children's books in order to bump up my count.

 

[Wells83]

If I had to guess... close to a thousand. However, in my oppinion, it's about quality, not quantity.

I'd guess close to that too, but that includes all the books I read in my childhood.

In my adult life, at least 500.

 

[abecedarian]

I wish you wold have told me that before I checked out those 75 children's books in order to bump up my count.

Children's books don't count?:sick:

Considering how many I've read aloud over the last 24 years...I remember one evening when the oldest three girls talked me into reading some 15 books in a row. I don't know about them, but I sure slept well that night:lol:

That's another list I wish I'd kept..I think I only managed to keep an accurate record of read alouds one school year. Usually I'm too swamped to put forth the effort.

 

[Peach]

hmm.. i'm 55, i've been reading since i could... i can read a slim book in a matter of hours, a thick one in a few days, and there's never been a time in my life where i have not read books.. there's no way i could even guess at how many..