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I started a spreadsheet in June 2020. It shows the following count: June 2020 - May 2021 30 books June 2021 - May 2022 36 books June 2022 - May 2023 31 books
by admissionsguy 3y ago
I started a spreadsheet in June 2020. It shows the following count:
June 2020 - May 2021 30 books
June 2021 - May 2022 36 books
June 2022 - May 2023 31 books
June 2023 - now 12 books
The books range from a 1000 pages geology textbook to a 6-hour light sci-fi audiobook. I only count books I have read in full though, so the count does not include massive time I have spent going through various other textbooks.
BTW VCs and VC-funded people like to boast of crazy book counts like 100-150 / year. I think that's easy to achieve if you read the kind of books that VCs read.
> it's too slow to consume all the books I have in front of me.
I like to have a growing bookshelf of unread books. These are the most interesting (see Nassim Taleb' description of Umberto Eco's library).
- philomath_mn 3y ago> see Nassim Taleb' description of Umberto Eco's library I was reminded of this as well. I love the concept, but I am also amused by the argument: of course it is convenient for Taleb, an author and a book addict, to find an elegant justification for the overconsumption of books.