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Woman borrows 25000 books from library!

That's a lot of books! 25000 books? If you read 250 books per year it would still take 100 years to have read that many. I don't know if that's something I would want to emulate.
 
That is nuts..

"An avid reader in south west Scotland is on the brink of borrowing her 25,000th book from her local libraries.."

I think it would be incredible on the 20,000 mark also or 10,000...
 
Even 1,000 books seems a lot to me. It's beyond me how anyone can borrow so many without inadvertently stealing them.

Maybe she has some kind of book loaning business going.
 
Robert said:
That's a lot of books! 25000 books? If you read 250 books per year it would still take 100 years to have read that many. I don't know if that's something I would want to emulate.
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I'm shooting for this goal via the family plan...one of the perks of home education...and using a curriculum that relies heavily on library books, Just doing my best to keep up with the Joneses:whistling:
 
I think I could come close to that it they let me loose in a good used book store with somebody else's credit card. :innocent:
Strand, or Powells, let's say. /dreaming/
 
Peder said:
I think I could come close to that it they let me loose in a good used book store with somebody else's credit card. :innocent:
Strand, or Powells, let's say. /dreaming/
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Hey, I've already called dibs on Donald Trump's Visa:innocent:
 
I wonder if by now she can read the first page, and the last page, and then imagine all the stuff in between good enough. :whistling:
 
steffee said:
Even 1,000 books seems a lot to me. It's beyond me how anyone can borrow so many without inadvertently stealing them.

Maybe she has some kind of book loaning business going.
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I used to inadvertently steal paperbacks from my classrooms in elementary school because I always had a few going. I'd find them in my room somewhere halfway through the summer and think "Oooops!"

Personally I don't think that I'd want to be going through books that quickly, even if I had the time. Don't some books deserve a little extra contemplation and a slower pace? I think my brain would fry at the pace that woman is setting (but good for her, it's impressive!).
 
I know I couldn't read that many if every book was Louis L'Amour or Star Trek.

I wonder how many of those were rereads?
 
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