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Originally Posted by Quoth
You might read 200 to 300 novellas a year if a fast reader and not doing much else. Not 120K word novels.
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Hmmm... reading for 5 hours per day, I could plow through 2 120K word novels plus time for a few short stories. Going by one of my Kobo Reading Life numbers (see non-animated image), I could have read ~94 120K word novels in that month (just over 3 per day). Keep that up for a full year and I would hit ~1127 120K word novels in a year. Admittedly that month was over my average for the last year of ~160 hours per month.
I have generally seen words counts on novels clocking in between 50,000 and 110,000 words with the average in the 82,000 word range so a 120K word novel is getting on the longer side. Here I have to except my science fiction/fantasy collection where the average length for newer books seems to be hitting 90,000-120,000 words. SF&F readers like epic stories that take more words to tell? We've been conditioned by stories such as Lord of the Rings to expect longer books?
I will admit that when it comes to reading speed, I am an outlier.