I have read about 15, all of them being Forgotten Realms books and most of them by RA. Salvatore!(the best fantasy writer in the world)

The same question my German teacher asked two weeks ago,and I answerd 38 (good,ehh :cool: )

I would like to read alot more but with all the recent crpg's I just don't seem to have any time.(or money for that matter)

Counting school assignments, I would have to say somewhere around 70.

For "proof," I'll even name some of them:
Jordan's Wheel of Time (all, though not for the first time);
Goodkind's Sword of Truth (all);
Most of Pratchett;
Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series;
Hobb's Farseer and Tawny Man;
Douglass Adams;
Katherine Kerr's Deverry series;
Brust's Vlad series;
and so on.

[ April 24, 2003, 01:52: Message edited by: Rathanel ]

I have only read roughly 85 books in the last year. :( Pretty sad considering I used to read at least 200 books a year before I began working full time and purchased my house. It would have been even worse but my firm sent me out of town on an eight day course and I managed to polish off a dozen books during my spare time.

I read somewhere around... 100-105 approx. Back during my youth I'd probably have read quite a bit more, but I havn't got as much free time now.

IN the past year, it is more than I can count. In the last 2 weeks or so I read 6, and in the last month about 10. It would average 120, but that would be extreme, even for me.

Maybe about twenty or thirty books... mostly fantasy. I read usually less than half hour in a day, so I read books quite slowly.

(My 300th post. YAY!)

Too many that, can't remember.

I've lost count. Actualy, I never counted in the first place

Probably about 30. Not enough, but lack of time between work, CRPG's, PS2, Pub and girlfriend.

To those of you at 100+, where on earth do you find the time????

After thinking for a while, I came to a total of ZERO.
Actually, I don't read, I am the one people are reading about!
(Yeah, right!)

Wow. People are reading around 70-ish books a day. That's, on average, every book finished five days. I'd say your average fantasy book is around, say, 350 pages, so that's 70 pages, on average, a day. Which amounts to, say, around 4.5 pages every waking hour (assuming you sleep eight hours). Wow.

I haven't read a lot. I've read a few books on writing. Skimmed a few books on history, science, technology, and stuff, but never really finished them - I get too bored easily. I haven't read much fiction - pretty much no fantasy (excluding those so-so fan fiction on the internet).

<grins maniacly>

Read the first two books in the FR Return of the Archwizards series in the last 8 hours. Yay night shift. I do 3-5 nights a week, you do the maths.

Do you mean over the last year, or this year?

Id say about 22 this year, and, considering that we have gone through 4 months so far, I would say about 70 books over the past year.

I'm running out of spare time at the moment, 2 more years of school, so they finally decided to pile work on us. I get about 1 1/2 hours each night to do what I want, and its getting very annoying.

All of them.

Actually I read quite fast so I think that I am around 150 books this year. I think. I'm not sure it might be more or less. I just read to much.

Somewhere between 45 and 70. I don't really keep track of the number of book I read.

Hard to keep track but around 2 books a week I would say. Depends on size and time and such but I always have to have a book to read.

Wife, Kids, work, poverty = not nearly enough books read over the past few years :o

Wow. People are reading around 70-ish books a day. That's, on average, every book finished five days. I'd say your average fantasy book is around, say, 350 pages, so that's 70 pages, on average, a day. Which amounts to, say, around 4.5 pages every waking hour (assuming you sleep eight hours). Wow.
Wow? Not really if you think about it. I can normally read between 50 and 100 pages per hour depending upon the book. Thus, it will normally take me less then an hour of reading to meet your calculated daily quota. On days when I am not working I will read typically betwen four and six hours meaning that I will read between 200 and 600 pages. Thus a two day week-end will net me between 400 and 1200 pages read. Assuming this averages out to 800 and given the average book length that I read is around 400 pages that amounts to two books a week just on week-ends. Unfortunately I don't have week-ends off for 1/4 of the year so that takes me down to 52*2*.75= 78 books.

When I posted my figure of 85, I calculated it by going to my bookcases and trying to remember which books I had read in the previous year. It is a little difficult to remember when I last read each of the 800 or so books but if anything the figure of 85 is a little on the conservative/low side.

I've probably red about 100 books in the past year, maybe more. I read about two books in a week, but sometimes more.

Golly, you 'crazy readers' lol. I can Barely find time to play crpg's. I like to read but I like crpg's just a tiny bit more so I do that more often. When I do read however, I usually read about half way through the average book in one or two sittings and finish them fairly quickly. I would read more if I had time. But heck, who has that.

Maybe someone could make a study on the average books_per_year_read dependant on readers age.

I would say, that for me it looks like:

6 - 8: 150+ books per year - many had only few pages, but I also had a sci-fi books about 200-300 pages at age about 8 - lot of time to read ... 9 - 13: 100+ books per year - less time, school, school friends, ... 14 - 21: 120+ books per year - started to read computer manuals, computer language theory books, big fan of sci-fi and got some money to buy books ... and plenty of time too 22 - 27: 50+ books per year - some serious computer working (semiprofessional) 28 - 33: 30- books per year (not counted various studies, analysis, and presentation materials) - hard core programmer in big software house, later DB architect, quality manager ...

no wife, no children, no time to read books ... it's terrible and the rest of the free time spent writing this post ... ;)

I can't read. I get them all on tape.

About 40 different books. These include all of the Wheel of Time series, several course books, manuals, and some sci-fi/fantasy. That´s the saldo of last year.

Oh god about 190 rangeing everything from Stephan King to Dragonlance.

MANY!
Just can't count all of them.

As of the past year, I'd guess... 200. There was a time when I managed to read probably approximately 500 books during an year, but I did nothing more than go to school and read :D

If all the stuff I read over the 'net was put on book form (amateur author works) the number would probably be a lot higher...

I can, after all, read 250 pages in an hour. 300 if I cram. But where's the fun in it?

:D :D :D

(Elrond... would you read aloud for me?)

I read HP IV in 6 hours and once I read HP I,II and III in one day.

And let's say, I have some 200 books, add those what are not mine... Say 270-280.

Last year? Hmm, 10 or something. some of them (such as Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy and LoTR) were sort of "many-books-in-one" types. The year before that it was somewhere around 20 I think. I have a problem with getting stuck with anything interesting that I start doing, -and books are something you can do just about anywhere- so I try to avoid getting into them too much as it severely hinders my work and studying.