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1Mallou
50 sounds like a lot -- I'm a slow reader.
For the past couple of years, my goal was to read 26 books in a year.. average one every two weeks. Audiobooks counted. Last year I made it, I think, but I had to count a few things that were pretty short. And, this rule made me less likely to stop reading books I didn't like in the middle, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing.
This year I have two resolutions, to try to make sure I don't cheat.
- read 26 books in 2008 (minimum)
- read an average of 20 pages/day, or 7,320 pages this year (minimum)
For the first category I'm still letting audiobooks count, but I'm not sure what to do about the 3 books that I started in 2007 and didn't finish until 2008.
For pages, audiobooks don't count, but random things I read that aren't whole books do (and books I put down without finishing).
For page count, on April 1st I finally caught up to being on track after being way behind for a long time. Now I'm behind again. As of yesterday (4/5) I'm up to 1899 (average is 19.78.)
(You could argue that I'd be better off reading instead of keeping careful track of page counts, but I think I read more this way than I did before.)
For books read entirely in 2008, I have 6 so far:
No Country For Old Men
Cold Dog Soup
On Writing
The Writing Life
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
I'll probably give myself one more point for the three partial books.
For the past couple of years, my goal was to read 26 books in a year.. average one every two weeks. Audiobooks counted. Last year I made it, I think, but I had to count a few things that were pretty short. And, this rule made me less likely to stop reading books I didn't like in the middle, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing.
This year I have two resolutions, to try to make sure I don't cheat.
- read 26 books in 2008 (minimum)
- read an average of 20 pages/day, or 7,320 pages this year (minimum)
For the first category I'm still letting audiobooks count, but I'm not sure what to do about the 3 books that I started in 2007 and didn't finish until 2008.
For pages, audiobooks don't count, but random things I read that aren't whole books do (and books I put down without finishing).
For page count, on April 1st I finally caught up to being on track after being way behind for a long time. Now I'm behind again. As of yesterday (4/5) I'm up to 1899 (average is 19.78.)
(You could argue that I'd be better off reading instead of keeping careful track of page counts, but I think I read more this way than I did before.)
For books read entirely in 2008, I have 6 so far:
No Country For Old Men
Cold Dog Soup
On Writing
The Writing Life
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
I'll probably give myself one more point for the three partial books.
