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The final countdown: How many books did you read in 2010

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Post by Madeleine » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 12:34 pm

I read 22, and if you count the one I finished last night - most of which I read in December - then that makes 23. About the norm for me, I'm not a fast reader and it would have been an even lower total, probably around 15, if I hadn't started commuting again and read some very easy-to-read books to pass the journey.

Actually I think 20 is a very low estimate to classify someone as a bookaholic!
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Post by Carla » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 1:56 pm

I never remember to keep a formal log, so I don't know the exact total. I reviewed 23, and I'd guess the total would be about 40 - 50 (not counting work).
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Post by Divia » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 2:07 pm

Whats DNF?
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Post by Misfit » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 2:27 pm

[quote=""Divia""]Whats DNF?[/quote]

Did not finish.
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Post by Margaret » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 6:42 pm

They're definitely going to need to revisit that "extreme bookoholic" definition!
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Post by LoveHistory » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 7:31 pm

Based on books I finished, going from my Reading Log and adding a few I know I read, I have about 20.

Far fewer than I wish it had been. But it was a difficult year. This year will be better...I hope. I certainly plan on visiting the library more often (for the classics, at least they have some of them).

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Post by fljustice » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 10:18 pm

44 this year (about a third HF), which is down. I read 55 in each of the two years prior to that. Hope to read more and watch less TV in 2011!
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Post by Tanzanite » Sun January 2nd, 2011, 11:08 pm

53 - not quite as many as I would have liked, but, oh well...

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Post by LoobyG » Mon January 3rd, 2011, 12:49 pm

32, not including two DNF since April 2010 when I started counting - hopefully I'll beat that this year!

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Post by Ludmilla » Mon January 3rd, 2011, 3:35 pm

I think I logged almost 150, but I didn't log all of my junk food reads, so it was at least 30 books over that. This is a lot for me... I'm not a particularly fast reader, but I indulged myself in quite a few popcorn reads with my eReader this year. Roughly 60 of the total were print books and the rest were eBooks.

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