I'm hyperlexic, autistic, and reading is my stim. So I read way more than the average person. Like, in 23, my Kindle says I read 872 titles. That doesn't count books I read on my computer, or paper books I read. So I'm probably somewhere close to a thousand, allowing for that.

Yeah, I know, I'm a freak, lol. It helps that the average mystery or romance novel takes me about 30 minutes to read. Chewier stuff like hard science is more like two hours. Most short scientific papers take me about 20 minutes if I'm familiar with the field and if I'm not taking notes or getting sidetracked looking up people and locales on Wikipedia. (grin) Perils of reading on a tablet. I'd estimate I read five or six most days. Like tonight, after dinner I read two Age of Sail books again while Husband watched football, then found that an author I like has another series, so I read the first book of that, and then I'm going to have a bath and read the second book and probably the third book, cause hot baths are really nice right now (it's, like, -5 outside and the heat is only managing to keep the house at 62.)

Some of that is rereading because some books or series are comfort food for me and you know, sometimes you just want something comfortable and fun where you know how it ends. Right now that's a couple of Age of Sail sagas. And I'm rereading the papers presented at a symposium in '21 on hadrosaurs, cause I find taxonomic arguments relaxing right before bed.

It's always interesting to see how many I read a year, which is why the kindle app is fun. It keeps count for me.

My claim that most Americans read 0 books per year is pretty accurate.

According to the Washington Post:
The data on most books read comes from our friend David Montgomery, “the spork pollster” who released the results of a new Economist/YouGov poll about America’s reading habits not long after we published last month’s column about America’s biggest readers. Though the Department of Data was supposed to be closed this week in honor of our annual holiday sabbatical, we couldn’t resist popping into the office to do a quick update.

So what did Montgomery find? Of 1,500 Americans surveyed, a less-than-ideal 46 percent finished zero books last year and 5 percent read just one. So, if you read more than two books in 2023, congratulations! You’re in the top half of U.S. adults.

Here is the breakdown of percentiles:


Congratulate yourself and keep on reading!

Wow, this is AMAZING! What DO people do with all their time? They can't all be watching TikTok, can they?

Great job @Catfish_Fan

My only goal this year is to read 28+ books by December 31st.

Happy Summer! Spring Challenge Complete!

I missed the Summer Kindle Challenge completion by 1 badge because on Prime Day I forgot to go online with my kindle even though I read that day and it counted it toward my streak, it didn't give me the badge for reading on that day. I think I found a bug in the game.

On October 28 I will have 2 complete years as a streak reading on my kindle. That is a might big streak! I'm about to let it go because I also got a Kobo reader for some deals on Humble Bundle that were Kobo store only books. Reading on my Kobo e-reader won't count on my kindle streak, unfortunately. I hope to hit 2 years before I give it up though... I am almost there.

Well I hit it, 2 years straight on the Kindle reading every single day, even through living with my dad helping him with horrible Covid in '23 and horrible triple bypass surgery in '24. It was HARD to accomplish this feat.

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Well done - especially with all that has happened in 2 years.

I hardly watch any tv. Usually I can't get any reading in until the evenings lately. I didn't tell many people that I read for 2 years every day, most people I know don't read or care about it. Thanks!