This morning I finished my 300th book since I started tracking such data back in June of 2015. The book which pushed me over this milestone was the surprisingly good anthology 101 Famous Poems, originally published in 1958. (Hence my surprise.)
This book had been sitting in the meditation chamber of my bedroom for some time; I highly recommend the practice of having a book of poetry in the bathroom. Finishing this volume — which actually has one hundred and eleven poems, plus 7 small pieces of prose — means that I have read another hundred books* since the last such milestone reached on June 16, 2018. Thus 279 days, or just over nine months, have rolled on their weary way since I completed 200 books in this purposeless project. On average, therefore, each book in this last century was completed in 2.79 days, a staggering drop from the 6.17 days per book of my last report, or even the 4.83 days required to finish each of the first hundred.
1 Book per 2.79 Days
As usual, I’ll be back with more detailed analysis after I have a chance to massage the data into me-friendly form.
*As usual, I exclude comic books and their ilk from my calculations, though I believe only 2 such books were read in this last pell-mell dash of reading.
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