[Katsunami]

It's obvious... if you want to read more books, read more/spend more time. Or read thinner books. I mainly read on public transport, so the longer my commute is, the more I read. Nowadays, my commute is only 30 minutes, which comes down to reading one hour per day.

I use my own page count in Calibre, and it turns out that I read exactly 30 pages in one hour. (Confirmed by both the KA1 "Time to Read" and me actually timing it.) If I don't read in the weekend, I'd be able to read one 300 page book in 10 hours, or two weeks. This would put me at around 26 books a year.

According to Calibre, I actually do read 26-34 books a year (average 30), because I also sometimes read a bit in the weekends. Also, some of my books aren't 300 pages; most are actually 400-600 with some even longer than that.

So... surprise, surprise... even if you read for only half an hour a day, excluding the weekends, you can _easily_ read 13 books a year.

If you include all days:

365 * 0.5 * 30 pages/hour = 5475 pages in one year, it'd be 18 books a year.

Keep in mind that my pages are "longer" than those in a paper book. I just counted the words on a page of 5 paperbacks (standard mass market from Del Rey), and 5 hardcovers (Lord of the Rings, Musashi, Shogun), and averaged the wordcount and then used that for Calibre. A "page" in an e-book, in my case, has no margins, and there isn't any whitespace anywhere. A 300 page e-book would probably be 400 pages or so in paper, due to the whitespace.

Taking this into account, reading 20+ 300 page (paper) books a year with only half an hour of reading each day is no great effort. (Assuming you read at average speed and have no disability or anything.)