How many books do we read a month?

[drenee]

One of the threads I love is So What Are You Reading?."  Today it strikes me that as a group we read a lot of books per month.
I know some of you read a lot faster and go through a lot more books each month.  But I thought it might be interesting to see
how many books we read as a group, DTB and K-books, for a month. 

I guess we would have to say books that we started and finished in the month of October. 
Anyone else interested, or am I just bored today?

deb

[MarthaT]

I try to read at least 10 a month

[Boston]

probably about 10 a month....

...unless I'm on one of my sporadic mindless chick-lit runs, then its one book every day or two.

[drenee]

holy cow...i need to get my behind off of here and read more books instead of posts.
deb

[Anju No. 469]

I'm with Boston, finished 2 today and started my third, but it is a lonnnnng one and will take a couple three days.

[stitchbug]

It really depends for me!
I have two young children, so sometimes, it takes me a month to read one book, and other times, I read 4 books in a week!
It all boils down to how early my kids go to bed! 

[drenee]

When I'm focused I can go through books pretty quickly.  I can't say I've ever done 10 a month though.  Of course, I prefer really long books. 
I have read a book in a day, but I got nothing else done. 

I think it's going to be very interesting to see exactly how many books we can read in a month.  I'm setting a goal for myself.  deb

[mwvickers]

I used to read 10-12 books a month. 

Now that my daughter has been born, however, I'm down to maybe 5 a month, and this month I've only finished 2. 

Martin

[drenee]

If you read her children's books they would count.  LOL.
deb

[lisa.m]

I read at least 10 books a month. Depending upon how long or short they are it could be more. I try to read shorter books these days because my time is limited and I have a real problem with putting down an unfinished book. At least if it is shorter I can finish it faster and not be driven to read endlessly.

[Aravis60]

I read quite a few books every month, but I really don't know how many. Sometimes I keep track, but I haven't done it lately. I read lots of children's chapter books (I'm a 4th grade reading teacher) which would drive up my count. Maybe I should start doing a reading journal again...

[jaspertyler]

Maybe 3 or 4....

[ElaineOK]

I read a novel a weekend (if I didn't ration my fiction, I would never get anything else done).  I try to read a non-fiction book a week, but that varies.  I checked my archive and after eliminating the magazines, newspapers, reference books and the one or two books I bought and didn't finish; I have read 50 books in 6 months.  So, I am pretty close to 2 a week.

Elaine
Norman, Oklahoma

[evpseeker]

I average 8-10 books per month.

[mlewis78]

I don't keep track, since the number of books is not relevant to me.  I read a lot of non-fiction and it takes longer than fiction, at least for me.  I just finished an 800+ page book and it took a month, but I had some shorter books going during that period too.

Substance matters, but number of books doesn't -- quality over quantity.

[BookishMom]

At least 10 or so a month, more if my other responsibilities/projects will let me.  

That said, I agree with previous posters who laud quality over quantity, and I've been feeling the need to diversify my genres lately.

That's a good question, too... how many different genres do you read, or are you stuck in a specific genre? (Sometimes I tend to get stuck on a genre.)

[BTackitt]

I'm in.. I will ask DS #1 to keep track too.  do you want sheer numbers or do you want titles too?
Before I went back to school , I averaged 4-10 books a week. lately it has dropped off due to classwork, but I do still read every day.

[Sporadic]

I've read 19 books (6319 pages) since March 7th when I first started keeping track. Would be more if I didn't hit a boulder of a book (Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire and Samantha Power) on the August 7th and if I wasn't distracted by my new big screen (with my other love, movies)

Usually it's about 1000 pages a month. I've been on a non-fiction kick for awhile now.

[Neekeebee]

Sounds like an interesting exercise.  I'll keep track starting October 1st.

N

[mlewis78]

After I posted, I realized that even fiction varies a lot in substance and/or length.  Think Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Bleak House -- each of those equals at least 3 or 4 typical novels.

[akpak]

Maybe I should start doing a reading journal again...

This is a good idea. I think I'll start doing this as well, since I don't really have an answer for this thread. I'd *guess* I'm up to 10 a month or so. Sometimes more if I'm on a re-reading kick.

[911jason]

I am only able to read about 30-60 minutes a day while at home, with 6 kids it's just too hectic around here for me to concentrate, and unlike others, I am not very good at tuning it all out. The great majority of my reading is done while at work, and that depends on how much crime is going on in the City of Angels...



I think I need to join Smiley's Anonymous...

[BTackitt]

well, on the Kindle we cant keep track of pages, but how about if we keep track of locations?
say I read books with locations of 2500, 2100, 1900, 5000, etc.. then total how many locations we have read by the end of the month. and of course for DTB, pagecounts work.

[Tip10]

Left on my own with no outside constraints -- I'd probably read 1-2 a day (or more) -- but alas work and life does tend to limit my reading time -- sometimes quite severely.  
Since I got my Kindle I've done all my reading on it and based upon when I got it and what's in my archive I'm running, on average 1-2 books a week.

[drenee]

I was thinking only the number of books when I started, but if you want to post the titles, that would be fine. 

I like the thought process about the different genres. 
deb