{"id":930,"date":"2010-02-08T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T20:37:23","slug":"4000-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/4000-books\/","title":{"rendered":"4000 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure it’s just me…but I sometimes panic when I realize how few books I will read during my life. There’s so much to read and so little time! Is there a phobia for this…The fear of not being able to read?<\/p>\n

Look at it this way: The average reader reads only four books per year<\/a>. Over the course of a lifetime of 80 years (with reading taking place between the ages 15 and 95), this would be only 320 books!<\/p>\n

But let’s say you read more. Let’s say you are an avid reader, and read one book a week, or about 50 books per year. Over the 80 years of reading, that is still only 4000 books! That’s about how many books I already have in my personal library! So even if I never buy another book, I will not be able to read all the books I already own.<\/p>\n

That is so depressing…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Best<\/p>\n

So I guess the lesson for me is that I must carefully select the books I read.<\/p>\n

Every time I pick up a book, I ask myself, is this a book that I want as one of my 4000? It makes me sad to think of some of the pointless books I’ve read.<\/p>\n

Books I have Read<\/h2>\n

So I decided to keep track of the books I read. Since I don’t know how many I have read up to this point, I went through my library and counted all the books I remember reading, and then doubled it. I remember reading many hundreds of books in my teenage and college years that I no longer own, so I figure this was a good starting place. This process brought me to 1500 books. Down below, I list some of the best books I have read during these years.<\/p>\n

Then, I am going to keep track of the books I read from year to  year, and update the count here.<\/p>\n

Here is my count so far:<\/strong><\/p>\n