{"id":7715,"date":"2025-08-18T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:10:09","slug":"my-current-books-read-count-3827-books-read-in-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/my-current-books-read-count-3827-books-read-in-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My current Books read count: 3827 books read in 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gutenberg_org\/115032806329413205\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mastodon-embed\" data-embed-url=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gutenberg_org\/115032806329413205\/embed\" style=\"background: #FCF8FF; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid #C9C4DA; margin: 0; max-width: 540px; min-width: 270px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gutenberg_org\/115032806329413205\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"align-items: center; color: #1C1A25; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 20px; padding: 24px; text-decoration: none;\"> <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 79 75\"><path d=\"M63 45.3v-20c0-4.1-1-7.3-3.2-9.7-2.1-2.4-5-3.7-8.5-3.7-4.1 0-7.2 1.6-9.3 4.7l-2 3.3-2-3.3c-2-3.1-5.1-4.7-9.2-4.7-3.5 0-6.4 1.3-8.6 3.7-2.1 2.4-3.1 5.6-3.1 9.7v20h8V25.9c0-4.1 1.7-6.2 5.2-6.2 3.8 0 5.8 2.5 5.8 7.4V37.7H44V27.1c0-4.9 1.9-7.4 5.8-7.4 3.5 0 5.2 2.1 5.2 6.2V45.3h8ZM74.7 16.6c.6 6 .1 15.7.1 17.3 0 .5-.1 4.8-.1 5.3-.7 11.5-8 16-15.6 17.5-.1 0-.2 0-.3 0-4.9 1-10 1.2-14.9 1.4-1.2 0-2.4 0-3.6 0-4.8 0-9.7-.6-14.4-1.7-.1 0-.1 0-.1 0s-.1 0-.1 0 0 .1 0 .1 0 0 0 0c.1 1.6.4 3.1 1 4.5.6 1.7 2.9 5.7 11.4 5.7 5 0 9.9-.6 14.8-1.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 .1 0 .1 0 .1 0 0 .1 0 .1 0 .1.1 0 .1 0 .1.1v5.6s0 .1-.1.1c0 0 0 0 0 .1-1.6 1.1-3.7 1.7-5.6 2.3-.8.3-1.6.5-2.4.7-7.5 1.7-15.4 1.3-22.7-1.2-6.8-2.4-13.8-8.2-15.5-15.2-.9-3.8-1.6-7.6-1.9-11.5-.6-5.8-.6-11.7-.8-17.5C3.9 24.5 4 20 4.9 16 6.7 7.9 14.1 2.2 22.3 1c1.4-.2 4.1-1 16.5-1h.1C51.4 0 56.7.8 58.1 1c8.4 1.2 15.5 7.5 16.6 15.6Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/><\/svg> <\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #787588; margin-top: 16px;\">Post by <a rel=\"mention\" class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gutenberg_org\">@gutenberg_org<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 500;\">View on Mastodon<\/div>\n<p> <\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-allowed-prefixes=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/\" async src=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online<br \/>\nOne page of Dan&#8217;s list of books<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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: <b>I have read 3827 books<\/b>!! 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. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will write more later (once I finish this book I am reading \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}