how many books do you read per year?

how many books do you read per year nostormo?

21-30

when i wrote book reviews closer to 30
in a busy year closer to 20

how many books do you read per year nakhchivan?

7

holy number

i read a book once

green it was

i have measured out my life in Mills & Boons

books

books of numbers

Major gap between books I pick up and begin and those I complete.

Even bigger gap between number I buy from various charity and 2nd hand shops and those I finish.
Think i'm in at least high teens of completed though, could be 30s too.
In 2003 I read about 60 books over the summer. Read a few too fast to retain, others I read twice.
Slowed down since then but need to tidy up since books disappear into piles.

81-90.

since i stopped reading fiction i pretty much stopped finishing books too

I put 51-60, but that's a big guess, as it comes in fits.

need an official ruling on whether 'read' necessarily means 'finish'

Finishing isn't important its the journey that counts.

i finish, like 5 books a year tops.

I used to keep lists of books read and usually hit around 125-150 a year. Now I'm down to about a book a week.

I love books

usually between 14-20 a year. im flabbergasted at people who read over 50 books a year. how do you get the time? i suppose i could read more but internet/real lyfe gets in the way. i like to read slowly (dont see the point in speed-reading books tbh, kinda defeats the purpose, no?) and sometimes i might leave a book aside for a week or two and then come back to it.

It's my fault: I'm neurotic about finishing even lousy books. Also, three days a week I deal with an hourlong bus commute to another campus.

even on public transport i find i get distracted or it takes a while for me to find my place or i fall asleep reading or w/e

i just read the bible, over and over again

I'm going to hit over 50 this year but that's with dedicating pretty much all of my free time to reading. But I'm married and I drive to work, and don't use public transport. A more normal year is probably 21-30.

101+ (ducks, runs away)

wow..how can you unless you work/study/in a relationship/don't have friends etc..

In a normal year I read between 30 and 40 books. I rarely read less than 30 and an every couple of years I read as many as 60.

Somewhere around 30-35 I think. I tend to tackle a couple of huge books every year and offset that with a rush of shorter fiction though.

wow..how can you unless you work/study/in a relationship/don't have friends etc..

It's not really that odd. I read about 30 minutes before work, then on the train (80 minutes round trip) and on breaks at work (70 minutes total). So that's about 3 hours of reading per work day--around 90 pages a day, 450 per work week. And that doesn't cut into evenings or weekends at all.

Yeah I think the key to reading a lot of books is having a long commute on public transit.

I think I'm at around 25 this year, which is an all-time high (post-college). That's only due to having books on my phone and starting to read at the gym. And while a lot of them were long (600 - 900 pages), I still can't imagine reading 50 in a year.

I'm usually up around 35 per year. Some of it depends on how bloody long they are. It seems like half the books I get interested in this year are >800pp.

currently on 46 but with provisos.

i'm halfway through 4 different short story collections and some of those other 42 are individual short stories, some as little as 8 pages long, downloaded from gutenberg (sci fi shorts taken from pulpy magazines mainly, PKD, algis budrys, vonnegut). the ereader kinda redefines what a book is.

about 9000 pages. £74.79. (i have a spreadsheet)

currently trying to finish some of the unfinished. have Little Dorrit lined up for christmas / january.

21-30; some years it's less, rarely more. I'm envious of those who can read a book a week or more.

I'm the same as Michael B. I take my time reading them (or I'm just slow)

So far this year 93 with maybe a dozen half-read.

This is more than most years partly because I've been keeping a list for the first time and also travelling on trains quite a bit - for both these reasons I've read quite a few novellas and not many big books. I probably normally read about four or five hundred pages a week.

Same here, weekends less oddly enough.

30-40 this year. Some late increase as I gave up on heavy novels and started reading mostly horror.

32 last year, to my disgust, and even fewer this year. I only read on public transit.

In December I will read with grim determination. ('Tis the season.)

10 is a good year. Would be more if I could get a seat on public transit.

damn i wish i read 100 books per year

even at that pace you'd barely scratch the number of good books to read

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I used to average about four a month. Now it's closer to seven-ten a year. (I've got health/energy issues though, plus I read a considerable amount online.) I also don't have the discretionary money any more to just buy whatever I want to read when I want to read it.

I read almost no "literature" proper, these days. I wanna know stuff.

Other than those deep perennial truths contained in great works of literature, I am told.

Like: couples cheat on each other. People are sometimes hypocrites. Life can be disappointing.

Managed 26 this year so far, which is good by my standards. Doubt I'll manage more than one more book before the year end as new baby = sleep and powers of concentration shot to shit. I have a queue for 2014.

prob btwn 35-50

like i started this thread last yr and i count 34 i guess -what all did you read in 2012

wow..how can you unless you work/study/in a relationship/don't have friends etc..

Can't drive/go everywhere by public transport
Work part-time
Have trouble sleeping at night
Read during lunch break at work

I used to manage much more before we had a baby...

so PUBLIC TRANSPORT is the main factor influencing this matter?

so i read less than some of you guys because the public transport in my city is shitty. ok.

shitty public transport => more time to read.

you could always hire a man to drive you around in one of those black cars, that would free up some time too

yeah, good thing i'm a millionaire

Hire someone to read for you

reading in a black cab is usually not that productive

I'm trying to figure out my number but it depends on what you mean by "read." Read and completed from beginning to end, or skipped around in and read cherce nuggets here and there.

if nugget is defined as a few pages or more, probably about 150

No option for "This question depresses me."

^this

"Read and completed from beginning to end"

i mean this

"No option for "This question depresses me."

why?
cause you don't read much? who said thats "bad"?

I think I only read about 10 books a year but in recent years I've been reading quite long intense stuff. I've read about three books in the last two weeks, but they've been plays, or collections of plays, probably about as quick as it gets.

Having only just participated in a Thanksgiving family gathering, I can attest that my unnatural reading habits mean I am missing out on a great many widely-watched television shows.

you can just get them to tell you who shot j.r., it's no big

this is like, actual books, right? discrete entities bound by two covers (or their electronic equivalents)? probably 11-20 these days

I used to read around 30. Since having kids it's definitely less than 10. I can count 5 I've read this year.

Also not working outside the house = no commuting time.

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I was unemployed for about fourteen months that overlapped with the years 2008 and 2009. I read 40+ books (some of them pretty heavy duty) each of those years, almost all during the time I was unemployed. There's another answer: don't work.

Oh yeah, also no home internet access while I was unemployed. Three hours maximum a day using the computers at the public library.

oh yeah, when I got home internet my yearly book reading totals dropped

My current reading of The Gallery was interrupted for 10 minutes on the F train last night by a "spoken word artist."

That is why we have the second amendment.

given that this thread is the first time I realised nostormo is not "nostromo", I may be reading a lot of books but not very closely

32 last year, to my disgust, and even fewer this year. I only read on public transit.

In December I will read with grim determination. ('Tis the season.)

― alimosina, Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:21 PM (1 month ago)

I made an honest 30. Honest because some books were too short, so I count them as half books.