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Originally Posted by Mistyfarm
The very first interrogations and demands for “proof” actually came from users demanding I spend hours counting and listing the “exact” number of books, where, when etc.
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Demanding hours of counting? For a ballpark figure? You can count every single book, make sure you skip none or double count. Or you could have counted pages on your screen. Count how many fit on a screen, then scroll down, and down again, then multiply the number of screens by how many books per screen. The number you gave earlier by itself is no real grounds for concern (when you stopped counting at 250) if they were all small books. Still it would be really nice to know how much more after 250 there is as your situation is quite unique (getting flagged without trying to test the limits on purpose).
Here on MR we have many members that read a lot and read fast. One such member (don't remember who and certainly much faster than I am reading) mentioned they can read
The Lord Of The Rings in one setting of 14 hours. Amazon says that book as single volume is 1200 pages long. If you read all day long for a month straight that is 36 thousand pages. Now if that person reads short books of 50 pages each, then he could rack up 720 books a month. If you got flagged at reading 500 books (let's just say when you stopped counting there was still half left) on mostly real short books 10 to 20 pages long, that would be real cause of concern. Now if you did all that in one afternoon, it is very reasonable to assume that it was humanly impossible to read that fast.
Do you maybe now see why we would like to have a little better estimate? Heck, if you are off by plus or minus 25% that would still be valuable information.