I have a sweatshirt that reads across the front “So Many Books, So Little Time.”
I don’t think I’m a fast reader. Or maybe it’s that I don’t have a lot of opportunity to read. I feel that if I’ve read one book per week on average, then I’m doing well. If you do the math, that really shows how limited the number of books I’ll get to read in my lifetime.
Let’s assume about one book per week or about 50 books in a year. Now let’s assume that there are sixty good reading years, from 15 to 75. That comes to only 3,000 books I’ll probably read in my life.
I should try to be selective in the 3,000 books I get to chose, but how often can you really know in advance if a book is good? Maybe that explains why at least one book in every ten I read I’ve already read at least once before. How do I count those?
