I seem to read about 200 a year so the 10,000 over a lifetime doesn't seem particularly excessive, though I don't think it should be touted as some kind of target. I read because I enjoy it
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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Quite so. When I was 10 or so I went through two or three books a day. The local library staff knew me by name 
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Fairly similar here too... For my 8th birthday my parents bought me a Jules Verne set, read all 23 volumes in about 2 weeks - they got me a library card after that

and luckily said library was only about 300 yards from home