How Many Different Books (Titles) Have You Read in Your Life?

dwndrgn said:
Well, with a 40 hour a week job plus commute, I currently read around 200 books a year. Scale that back every year a bit and subtract the years where I didn't have as good a library and no digital books or audiobooks to add to my reading and carry the one....and I get around 5,000 or so.
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Now is that 5000 books read in your reading life, or a very impressive 5000 different books in your life? Like I said above, if you have read Capital or Atlas Shrugged 20 times, that counts as one book, not 20. If you have read 5000 different books (different titles), have you reread any of them?
 
Hm, now I'm not sure how to figure that, quick math considering I only started re-reading books around 92 so that is about 26 years of re-reading but something like 3 books a year for 78 books so subtract those but round up to 100 just in case I had some serious re-reading years so approximately 4,900 books instead of 5,000.
 
The first book I read in a novel format ( ie not colour pics Dr Suess type thing) was Emil and the Detectives in 1976, so that gives me a mere 42 years. My peak was my teenage years when all my pocket money was spent on pulpy and very cheap second hand SF. Literally armfuls of the stuff each trip to the shop.
A bit more sedate now: probably one novel per week, but I must have read several thousand.
 
Extollager said:
Several thousand different books?
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Yes, I would have thought so. I have about 3000 books on my shelves, 70% of which I reckon are fiction, and most of which I have read. There are boxes more in the attic, at my parents, pinched by my brothers over the years, lent and not returned, lost, etc.
 
25 years but sadly I have only read about 150 books. Slow reader and I put books down if I don't get into them. I typically only read about 5 - 8 books a year lately
 
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