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I’ll Never Read Every Book There Is
But I’m still not going for your type-A reading hacks
As of 2010, nearly 130 million books had been published worldwide.
That was almost ten years ago now. There is no question that the ongoing surge within the self-publishing industry as well as all of the hundreds of traditionally published books that companies churn out each year have since put the estimate well above a measly 130 million.
I read between 75 and 110 books each year, so even going top speed, it would take me about 1.2 million years to read them all.
Sooo… never going to happen.
Yet I try.
And you won’t convince me to take your shortcuts.
Trust me, I am very aware of the people who think that I’m wasting my time trying to devour every book that passes under my nose. They like to publish thought pieces like listicles of all the other things I could be spending my time on or their treasured life hacks for how to speed read or their many resources that seem to be overtaking the grown-up Spark Notes scene.
And that’s great. For them.
I think all of those reading shortcuts do a great job of passing the information from page to brain without…
