How many books do you read per year?

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It depends on when I can find the time...sometimes I have movies to watch, or videogames to play, or I just feel like vegging out and watching TV...or sometimes I waste way too much time on the Internet >_<

And sometimes I don't get around to reading until right before bed, and by that time I'm so tired that my comprehension is nearly gone.

But I think this year, I've only read about...15 books, maybe. I don't know, I really don't keep track at all.

purly depending on the nymber of book i discover in the year

If you mean "novels", for me, that would be something between .1 (point one) and 0 (zero) per year. I'm very active in my pursuits so, see fiction mostly as an un-necessary distraction.

Around 20-30 due to school. If I didn't have school, I'd read way, WAY more.

I'm not a heavy reader, in fact I've only started reading for the first time in ten years two months ago. I've read eleven books in the past two months, and I've read three E-books, I'm still working on that medical dictionary, it's a hard read

I don't read enough, but I buy a good 100 books a year from the used bookstore.

I'm not a big fan of reading fiction, so that cuts my potential reading by about 100 or so books. Obviously there are plenty of fiction books that I do enjoy immensely, it's just that there aren't enough that meet my own standards for a good read. Over the past few years I've gravitated more towards the biographies of my heroes or just interesting folks during that specific period in time. I cannot say exactly how many books I've read in 2007, 2008 or 2009 as there are many that I have started and have yet to finish, although I do revisit them every once in a while.

The number of books I've read or am reading now aren't really whats important to me, but for the purpose of this thread I will try to guess how many I've read this year and how many I've started but have yet to finish.

Hmm.. well, I guess the thinking process of this particular activity doesn't really show up too well in text, unless of course I were to fill up the page with one-thousand hmms and two-hundred ums and forty-five uhs.

So rather than writing words with no real meaning to the topic at hand, I'll give it a go.

I have read, in completion, 4 books so far this year.
I have started, and continue to read, 11 books so far this year.

I had started to read one I had just bought at the bookstore and it was quite good, but I just received the three books I had ordered online and I'm certain the one I started reading will have to wait.

Thanks all. This is very intriguing. I didn't think to include "partially read" books or rereading books.

I reread favorite books regularly but don't count them in my annual total. I read parts of books when they pertain to my interests, but only have a chapter or two that isn't already familiar. I sometimes abandon books, particularly fiction, after the first 30 to 50 pages if I can't lock onto the characters or figure out what is happening, or deal with the author's style. Most recently this happened with the book "The Road".

My work requires me to read scientific and technical papers (actually, translate them too), but I don't even try to count those.

Not even one a month.

A couple health issues outside of Asperger's often make it difficult to absorb content or even concentrate enough to read the pages.

Mostly it's magazine related to a hobby and the occasional boat or train book with lots of pictures.

Have done pretty well lately to read a lot of stuff on here

Reading is something I need to do more, but with ADHD it's hard for me to read in one sitting, even a little book like 194 pages. Don't get me wrong, I like to read, it's just that I tend to slip into other activities and forget about the book stuffed in the bookshelf, possibly not being read till six months to a year later.

So I start many books, but I don't finish them unless it's about my special interest like writing since I used to read slow.

That being said, I got a book on how to speed read. Now I can managed to read about 490 words per minute, but I can read 500 or even 600 wpm if I try, though I'm not comfortable with reading 600 wpm yet.

I tend to finish books now, but I've got to concentrate on it if I have to read it in one sitting. But you know, ADHD...

3 books so far, so many have started to read, but didn't finish. Got to improve that reading streak.

Zero. I have read two books in the past 20 years.

Am ADHD Inattentive. Normally I read zero books per year. With the right med for my ADHD Inattentive (for me an alertness aid) which works a little - not a cure - (contains caffeine - 100 mg), I read two books a year.

I used to read 40 books a year. Now I am down to 10 or 15.

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I truly love books. Yet I can't focus on them. I average 2-3 non fiction books a year and less than 1 fiction. I write a fiction novel every year which mean I write more than I read. Which is bizarre. My friend always carries a book around. I envy her. She can focus anywhere. I used to be like that as a kid. After I had a bad depression I couldn't focus well on reading anymore. My writing would benefit from reading more.

150-180 books, if you you take the the internet into account and calculate for number of words (400-600 wpm which is roughly to pages a minute), then assume that an average book has 300 pages. It'll take 150 minutes or 2.5 hours to read a book. If we say that I read approx. 5 hours a day (which is an understatement), then I read two books a day which equates to 730 books a year. Very simplified and not at all a 100% correct estimate, but it gives you an idea.

I read about 30-40 books a year, but would read more if I did not get distracted as much as I do sometimes.