How Many Books Will You Have Read This Year?
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Anonymous
| Probably 26–a lot less than last year, which was 37. I got stuck on a lot of books I didn’t really love this year and spent time casting around for something that appealed. |
Anonymous
| Goodreads says I read 116 books in 2023 which is way more than I would have guessed. I got an email from them saying I was in the top 25% of readers which was also surprising, but I thought it was probably because people set up a Goodreads account but don't use it which skews the Goodreads average. |
Anonymous
That's interesting - I read 37 and they also said top 25%. I thought people would read more might get a different % but it sounds like they just sent top 25% to all those in it and made no further cuts. |
Anonymous
Who counts this? I just read.... |
Anonymous
A lot of us keep track on Goodreads. |
Anonymous
I also don’t keep track. I checked Libby to get a count of things I’d borrowed from the library, counted how many books I’d read in the last month and multiplied that by 12. 😅 Then I also rounded down a bit because I feel like I’ve been reading more recently than I did at the beginning of the year. |
Anonymous
A couple years ago I started writing short summaries and my personal thoughts. More summary than review. I realized I couldn’t really remember the book a month or so later. It was the classic “I read War and Peace. It was about Russia.” The summaries have helped my memory a ton, even though I rarely refer to them again. Through that, I track. |
Anonymous
| I started tracking years ago after half way reading a few books I had already read. |
Anonymous
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I listened to 51 audiobooks and I read 3 books with my eyes.
So depending on your perspective, I either read 3 books or 54. I didn't keep track of how many books I read / listened to until this spring. When I heard that overdrive was going away on May 1 of this year I was like, OMG I will never be able to listen to audiobooks on my MP3 player again. So I bought an SD card for my MP3 player, made a list of all the audiobooks that my library has and that I wanted to listen to and then downloaded them if they were available. I ended up downloading a total of 166 books. Now as I listen to them I cross them off my list and then delete them from my MP3 player. It turns out overdrive didn't go away and I can still download audiobooks to my MP3 player, but I didn't know at the time that overdrive would still be available. |
Anonymous
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I am 61 and this may surprise people I have not read a single book since 1980.(other than text books).
The surprise is I loved books from 10-18. I even worked in a library as a Page in HS and still know whole Dewey Decimal system, I goof off and read books in the stacks. Once I started going to bars, college plus work and fact I have had an office job for 42 years after looking at text and numbers all day I rather surf net and watch Netflix |
Anonymous
| I've been tracking how many books I read and writing a short "review" of my impressions since 2008. I love having a record of the books I've read. The reviews help jog my memory of details about the book, and it's just fun to look back through them once in a while. I am about to finish book #102 this year. |
Anonymous
| To the poster who hasn't read since 1980. Not surprising as half of Americans don't read. But, why are you in the book forum if you don't read. |
Anonymous
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About 20. It's the quality that matters, not the quantity.
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Anonymous
Not surprised that you don't read for so many years - fair enough. But why are you here in the Book Club topic? Genuine question. |
Anonymous
| I looked at my kindle and Libby. Roughly 140, including audio books. I’m in my 50s and my eyes get too tired to read as many paper books as I used to. I also love audio books for long drives and winding down for bed. |