I read a lot and am a fast reader so folks are usually quite surprised by how many books I read every year, but today I was surprised instead as I read this toot by Project Gutenberg:
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online
One page of Dan’s list of books
3599 sounds like a very high number. As I have been tracking every book I have read since 26th Nov 2007 I went and checked the list to see how I match up to Dan. In the past ~18 years that I have been logging every book that I read: I have read 3827 books!! Assuming I read the same number of books every year since I started reading novels at the age of ~9 years that would translate to ~7200 books read over the years. Filtering by unique books read, it comes to 2781 books.
As opposed to Dan, my list of books read is in the form of an excel file that notes the name of the book, author and date read. I could share the list online if folks are interested so see the stuff I read. BTW, the books in the count above are novels (fiction), they don’t contain any of the technical or programming books that I have read over the years. (Or any of the comics/graphic novels). It will be interesting to get a count of the no of books when I reach the age of 60, if I remember then I will make sure to post about it when I get there.
Well this is all for now. Will write more later (once I finish this book I am reading 😉 )
– Suramya