Discussion How many books have you read in your life?

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How many books have you read over the course of your life? (Please be serious when voting)

  1. 100,000+ I have read all the books in every sect over my 2000 years of life

  2. 5,000-20,000 I'm well aged and have spent my entire life reading

  3. 2,000-5,000 I'm a bookworm

  4. 1,000-2,000 I read all the time

  5. 750-1,000 I love to read

  6. 500-750 I actually like to read

  7. 300-500 I actually enjoy reading

  8. 200-300 I read, and it's actually ok

  9. 100-200 I read every now and then

  10. 50-100 I just don't get much opportunity/time to read

  11. 20-50 I've forced myself to read a few book

  12. 1-20 I've tried to read a few books but failed

  13. 0 What's a book?

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  1. katokashi

    katokashi 31st Imperator of Indolence

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    So I was extending the lease of a library book online, and I happened to see that since I applied I have borrowed 1300+ books. This lead me to thinking about how many books I've read. Considering that I have 200+ books on my bookshelf and I hardly buy books, as well as that most of the books I read nowadays are ebooks. I have come to the conclusion that it's atleast 2000 (conservative estimate)
    By books I mean actual books. Not magazines. Not newspapers. Not textbooks. Not manuals. Books meant for recreational reading.

    Useless statistics - The average length of the books I've read is perhaps 300 pages long. That's about 75,000 words. It takes me about 5 hours to read that if I do it in one sitting.
    That means I've approximately read 600,000 pages (2000 x 300), and 150 million words.
    And it's taken me about 10,000 hours (2000x4.5). 10,000 hours is about 1.15 years (10000/8760). This means I've spent an average of 2 hours 30 minutes a day reading ((10,000x24)/(8760x10)).
    The usual length of books I read is a lot longer than 300 but I'm assuming they were shorter when I was younger so maybe it'd balance out to 300
    250 words to a page
    Read at 250 words/min actually it's probably closer to 300 but w/e
    Started reading regularly at about 8 years old
    I haven't read every book I borrowed
    I once read The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan in two weeks. It's a 14 book epic, with each book being about 800 pages and 300,000 words long. For a total of about 11,000 pages and 4.3Million words in two weeks, 14 days. I did nothing but maintain my health and read for two weeks.[​IMG]

    Just take a best guess!!
     
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  2. SoulZer0

    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    You've borrowed 1.3k books from library? Lol what a nerd.
     
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  3. katokashi

    katokashi 31st Imperator of Indolence

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    Suck it
     
  4. LynneSuzuran

    LynneSuzuran JP Translator and Author

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    Do comic books and magazines count, or you mean, novels only?
     
  5. anhrefn

    anhrefn [NTR Sect Leader]       [True Ancestor]

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    I dunno, how many times have you masturbated in your life?
     
  6. juniorjawz

    juniorjawz Well-Known Member

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    There's no 'check history' in my real life.
     
  7. Xane

    Xane Well-Known Member

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    How do you expect me to know that number.
     
  8. katokashi

    katokashi 31st Imperator of Indolence

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    I was asking just about novels, since comics and stuff have different densities.
     
  9. Cosmic_

    Cosmic_ [Novel Addict] [Lazy Writer] [Meh Editor]

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    How do you count web novels?
     
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  10. Enigma

    Enigma Follower of Jesus, he's the only way

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    Somewhere in the thousands, not sure how many in total
     
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  11. Off-topic

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    what the fuck is a book? they sound really boring
     
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  12. LynneSuzuran

    LynneSuzuran JP Translator and Author

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    Thanks for the clarification XD
    I read lots of comic books but smaller number of novels, so...
     
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  13. Lazy Bookworm

    Lazy Bookworm Well-Known Member

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    No idea, just know that it is an excessive number. Plus I like to reread books I particularly enjoyed, so do they count twice? I have worked in a library as well as bookstores. My Kindle is packed. And one of my favorite activities when I was poor was hanging out at B&N to read in their comfy chairs.
     
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  14. WorthierSky8

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    Hmm...if you you exclude web novels and books meant for legit research then only around 50.
     
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    sKunKmike Well-Known Member

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    A book? Does manga, magazine and knowledge book at school count?
    If not then i'm on zero book count
     
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  16. katokashi

    katokashi 31st Imperator of Indolence

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    Yeah I'd say so. I've probably read some of my favourites 6+ times over. (Harry Potter, Lightbringer, Kingkiller)
     
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    Jigoku Shounen An Envoy From Hell

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    ......:hmm:.....Who knows?:blobunsure:....Not like I count from my birth till now, so how will I know the numbers anyway?:blobexpressionless:....Thousands maybe:blobawkward:
     
  18. MahotsukiKonran

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    Than why are you on a website for book translations?
     
  19. Arcturus

    Arcturus Cat, Hidden Sith Lord

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    I know I've read over 1k+ books simply through Goodreads ratings. Ive only done that for about 5 or so years though, so probably somewhere on the order of 4 times that would be accurate since I read more when I was young and had more time. So in the range of 4-8k would be about right.
     
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  20. Jiggy

    Jiggy I am JiggyliFAP~ the not fat anymore guy.

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    I read a lot but probably a few books. I read encyclopedias and history books before averaging 300 pages. And read 2 history books 600 pages thick. That's a lot considering I'm lazy as fuck.
     
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