06-06-2017, 11:53 AM
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How Many Books Will you Read Before You Die?
HOW MANY BOOKS WILL YOU READ BEFORE YOU DIE?
SPOILER: IT DEPENDS ON HOW OLD YOU ARE RIGHT NOW "There are millions of books in the world (and almost definitely hundreds of millions—last they checked, Google had the count at 129,864,880, and that was seven years ago). The rabid and/or competitive readers among you will now be asking yourselves: yes, yes, now how will I read them all? Well, you won’t....." http://lithub.com/how-many-books-wil...efore-you-die/ |
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06-06-2017, 12:05 PM
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Another discussion...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=285212 |
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06-06-2017, 12:07 PM
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Great minds, eh....
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06-06-2017, 12:09 PM
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06-06-2017, 01:00 PM
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You'll probably read more if you stop wasting your time reading this forums and chatting about how many books you'll read before you die.
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06-06-2017, 01:38 PM
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As Many As I Can.
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06-06-2017, 04:42 PM
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Making bad extrapolations from the presented data, the most voracious readers are female, over the age of 65, with a college degree earning more than US$75,000, living in a rural area. Rounding off, this group comes in at two books per year. Data is from http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/0...16-appendix-a/ I"ll be happy if I can read a book a day, every day, until I die. |
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06-07-2017, 01:54 AM
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might be 500-600 books. and among 600 I have already read 450 in my school. so rest 150 maximum I can read.
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06-07-2017, 03:45 AM
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I read in excess of 1 a week so around 65 a year currently so I will make a small dent in that number.
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06-07-2017, 06:23 AM
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What's really interesting about those numbers is that the median is so much smaller than the mean. It tells us that there is a minority who read vastly more than the rest of the population. |
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06-07-2017, 06:41 AM
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06-07-2017, 07:45 AM
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Based on my observations, what's missing in the survey is that kids read a lot more than adults. Of course, kids have a lot more time to read than adults. It also makes sense that people who are older, especially retired, read more simply because they have more time to read.
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