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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
Out of curiosity, I did the calculations on this. Let's suppose you have been reading for 30 years (I don't know how old you are, sorry). A billion pages would be over 33 million pages a year, averaging to about 91 thousand pages a day. This would mean 228 400-pg novels a day.
On the other hand, a million pages isn't far-fetched at all, depending how old you are. I have been literate for about 20 years, so I would have needed to average about 140 pages a day to reach a million at this point. I was certainly not reading nearly that much when I was young, so I suspect I have another 5-10 years ahead of me.
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I did figure we have a number of folks well over 50 who have been reading novels since around 8-9yrs old and that was where I got the one-million page idea. I know there was a stretch of years I hardly read 20-books/yr so even after 43yrs of novel reading I have a loooong way to go but still I might reach it with the access provided to classics.
Heck just read Homer, Leo Tolstoy and Ayn Rand and you are half-way there. Toss in Peter Hamilton's Void novels should get ya the rest of the way there.
