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State your age and how many books you've read (approximately) thus far.

>> No.7090957

26

305

>> No.7090959
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7090959

>>7090951
16, 300 or so. Just got admitted to university so I'll probably be slowing down a lot. Feels bad.

>> No.7090965

23

Around 1.5k?

>> No.7090997

23 73

>> No.7091003

>>7090959
>16
is bait

>> No.7091014

18

535

>> No.7091112

Dyslexic, and working stiff with no proper schooling.

200~

>> No.7091178

24

5 I think. Idk It's been over a year since I started to develop this new "interest" of mine.

>> No.7091205

19.

A thousand?

>> No.7091215

>>7090965
>>7091205
>they don't know how many books they read
You plebs don't carve a notch into your bedpost every time you finish a book? Fucking amateur hour in here tbh.

>> No.7091219

>>7091112

Yes but how old are you?

>> No.7091277

>counting books
>quantifying your entertainment
Nobody else does this. /mu/ doesn't ask how many albums you've heard. /tv/ doesn't ask how many shows you've seen. Only on /lit/ do you find people who care about how much of a field you absorb, rather than how much knowledge or insight you gain.

>> No.7091358

18
Around 150 or more

>> No.7092492

>measuring by number of books and not number of words

>> No.7092502

22

About 100-200.

>> No.7092508

18

Maybe like 50.

>> No.7092521

18

About 300-400, only 40 of which I'd consider worth reading

>> No.7092533

20

Not enough

>> No.7092546

>>7091277
This. But if you were ever in an English department you'd know that 90% of lit people are stupid misguided bigots of varying stripes

It's that and the problem that most posters are or are pretending to be extremely punchable teenagers

>> No.7092573

44

about meat pie

>> No.7092588

24

maybe 1000ish?

>> No.7092600

>>7090951
23

somewhere between 700 and 1500, I really have no clue. I was a serious bookworm as a child, I read hundreds of books through college, and I've read at least a couple hundred books here and there throughout the last ten years.

>> No.7092610

>>7090951
25. I only started keeping track in 2010, and I've read 700 over the past six years.

Especially if you count manga, I kept that pace when I was a teenager. I don't know if you're counting children's books, but I read the entire libraries of my elementary and intermediate schools, which both had at least 1,000 books. But they were all kid's books, lots of picture books.

I think 3,500 is a good estimate. 4,000 would be closer if you count individual manga volumes, but that's kind of cheating.

>> No.7092769

kinda related: I´m such a painfully slow reader, will i get faster with pratice? I don´t mean by practicing special tecniqes, but just by reading a lot.

>> No.7092777

>>7092769
Yeah, I've noticed that you do, though there's a point where it seems to peak, like around 700-800wpm.

>> No.7092836

18

i've finished 2 i think

>> No.7092862

>>7090951
>26
>152

>> No.7092869

28, I have something like 300 on Goodreads but I'm not counting plays or a lot of stuff I read when I was under 20 that I don't remember anymore

>> No.7092917

>>7092777
Where did you start?

>> No.7093021

>>7092917
I imagine I started around 20-50wpm when I was a toddler.

>> No.7093296

22
4k if we're not including camix

>> No.7093324

>20
>probably like 10
Im about to finish house of leaves if that makes it any better though half the book is just one word per page

>> No.7093325

24

42 but it's a new passion.

>> No.7093329

>>7092573
3141?

>> No.7093345

>>7092836
high five

I can list all the books I read

some book about a ghetto basketball kid early in middle school and then I read Jurassic park I think? and then the godfather I think if that's a book and then timeline by the Jurassic park dude (freshman year in highschool) and then senior year I read Kafka's metamorphosis and his other short stories (which aren't books really but they were all in a book format) and then this year (I'm 2nd year in community college) I read a very short story by Nikolai Gogol and then now I'm reading house of leaves


there's probably a small handful more in there somewhere but that's the jist of my entire reading history

>> No.7093355

19

maybe 100-200
Only recently did the interest of reading spark in me.

>> No.7093723

18

25 from which 10 were done during the last year

My most favourite book so far is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

>> No.7095276

19. Maybe a 150 separate books? I have reread a few certainly.

>> No.7095328

18
100 or so books I would guess

>> No.7095338

19
no fucking clue, how do you even calculate something like that?

>> No.7095430

>>7095338
Taking the average you read yearly/monthly and multiplying from there?

>> No.7095445

20

2

>> No.7095610

24
around 2500

>> No.7095636

I honestly have no idea. I don't keep track of things like this, and I'd probably under estimate the number if anything.

>> No.7095735

22 y/o. Somewhere between 400 and 500 books. I've been using poker cards as bookmarks since I was nine, and I would leave to card in the book after reading it to mark it "as-read". I've burned through at least eight packs of cards like this, and I imagine my hometown's library is still finding those cards to this day.

>> No.7095762

24
maybe 300 books of literature