At first the numbers shocked me (500k books, 16 reviewers) because they entail something like ~100 books added per reviewer per day (~250 workdays/year, 2k book

At first the numbers shocked me (500k books, 16 reviewers) because they entail something like ~100 books added per reviewer per day (~250 workdays/year, 2k books per workday). Then I saw the numbers of copies ordered for the top 10 titles and realized that they're adding many books with the same title and potentially in the range of ~10 copies per title on average -- so that seems much less strange, reviewers only need to approve about 10 titles per day or so. So then the question is, how much they have to comb through to get there. The article only gives one data point here: > Politics and dieting regimens — keto, Paleo and vegan — get a close look from Wayne Roylance, 58, a selector who reviews more than 4,000 adult titles a month. Of those, he typically picks about 1,500 for the shelves. Actually that one made me burst out laughing at work. (Since they weren't talking about "titles" before, my reading initially placed the end of that first sentence as a commentary on the magnitude of Wayne's porn addiction, rather than a material fact to be considered.) That number doesn't quite square up... ~20 weekdays per month means he's reviewing 200 per day, which is doable but a bit much (sort of a Marie Kondo thing, processing one item a minute by holding it up for 30 seconds and keeping it if it "sparks joy", is 480/day-ish), but I am very surprised that he picks 75 per day rather than the earlier estimate of ~10. Maybe I was wrong and indeed most of their books are singular rather than duplicates of one title?