How many books have you read in your life?

[freeztar]

I don't even know how to begin answering this q...

I guess maybe ~300?

For the past several years, I've read the most that I have in my entire life. But, it wasn't books. I read almost everything online now. I do keep the latest Nat Geo in the bathroom and generally work through them in about 4 sittings. (TMI, I know)

I miss books though. They're tangible!
I usually make a big book purchase about twice a year (Amazon). My next purchase already has some yummy stuff in the shopping cart...Evolution, Philosophy in the Flesh, and Evolution is True. (yeah, you can see where my interests lie...)

One day I'll make it around to reading all the good Sagan and Hawking books. Heck, I'm still an Asimov virgin.

[Kriminal99]

The whole book? maybe like 10 - 20 if that.

The problem with reading a book is that it's just one person's ideas, and they are usually very unrefined.

If you debate a lot after a lot of experience you realize that 90% of your arguments and beliefs are just fluff and bs that result from you not having reduced your arguments to their most general form. When you do reduce it in such a manner, you are left with a really convincing argument that is some tiny fraction of the original size.


When you read books you are usually reading someone else's fluff.