So, a word of clarification. Some comments are expressing either disbelief that one can read 100 books in a year, or that one would have to read them so fast t

So, a word of clarification. Some comments are expressing either disbelief that one can read 100 books in a year, or that one would have to read them so fast that one would get nothing useful from them. In the post, I talk about the importance of varying the difficulty level of what you read. Of these 100 books, not every one would meet the standard of this community as "difficult" - after all, I read five books in the juvenile/YA category, one of which (Stranger at Green Knowe)I consider in the top 10 books I read all year. Of the really deep, difficult books, I tended to take a longer amount of time and return to them repeatedly. For example, Russell and Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" was assigned in a grad class. I read it over the course of a semester from January to April (and took multiple tests on it). Did I get every possible insight from every book I read? Of course not. Did I get more than if I'd not read them at all? Yep.