[LMB] OT: Books per year

[anmar mirza]

On 6/1/07, Countryboy <countryboy66 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> James Nicoll noted:
> >  Good point. I mean, we don't even know that the books that are
> > bought are ever read. I know I never finished my CRC Handbook: the whole
> > thing is one long infodump and the plot is thin at best.
> That's the truth.  However it is useful for flattening paper and other
> books
> out.
>
> Countryboy - who buys more than two books a year but reads considerably
> more
> than he buys with borrowing and rereading.


I have read almost every book I've ever bought, plus a whole lot
lent to me over the years.  Some, like texts or references, I may have
skimmed or referred to from time to time, but I could pretty
much tell you what was in them and where. But then, my mom
got us a 26 volume encyclopaedia when I was five and I started
reading it regularly when I was bored and there wasn't anything new
to read.  I made it all the way through it (no, not every word, but every
page)
by the time I was twenty.

Like Countryboy, that doesn't count rereads :)  Bujold is by far the
highest on my reread list which says a lot.

Which is topical to the cartoons Pat sent me from "Funky
Winkerbean" :)

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