[LMB] Books per year

[Martin Gill]

On 01/06/07, The Sundance Kid <bobug at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Heather:
>   I can't believe it's accurate, or it doesn't take college books into account. Because that  accounts for 4-15 books a year, per student. Then high schools, where you're required to buy your books (I usually averaged 6-20 a year, there). Then libraries, eBooks (prolly not included, but 2003 might not have made a difference). And, the comment about it probably being Nothing Read vs. Lots would have a lot of merit. And a lot of corporate passing-books-around, lending things... I just can't believe 2 a year. I'd... go crazy :) I'm slow if I'm on 3 a week.
>

The big question is what you consider to be "reading".

I have almost 2 book shelves full of "work" books. These various
software reference books which I'd consider to be on a par with
College/University books, in point of fact some of them were
university books.

There is not a single one of those books that I would consider to have
been "read" by me. The only way I would include those books on a
"read" book list is if you call browsing for information and using
them as reference books as reading. The same for cook books. I don't
read them (the few that I have), I pick out a recipe and then read
that single recipe I'd never say that I'd read a cookbook.

I'm sure there are others that might have a different view to me, but
if I were asked in a survey how many books I'd read in a
week/month/year I'd only include those books where I started at the
beginning and read through to the end, and for me that would only be
novels and essay type books.

Regards,

  Martin

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