As of yesterday, April 25, 2012, I have been working on my epic library reading project for 2058<\/b> days.<\/p>\n
In those 2058 days, I consumed 3487<\/b> library products (not counting the half-read ones that I intend to go back to sometime). That’s 1.69<\/b> library products per day.<\/p>\n
Library products<\/i>? What’s that supposed to mean?<\/p>\n
That’s everything…
\n…Picture books (1203<\/b> titles read)
\n…First Readers (62<\/b> titles read)
\n…Beginning Chapter Books (91<\/b> titles read)
\n…Children’s Fiction (306<\/b> titles read)
\n…YA books (23<\/b> titles read)
\n…Juvenile nonfiction (140<\/b> titles read)
\n…Children’s CDs (42<\/b> discs listened to)
\n…Children’s DVDs (47<\/b> discs watched)
\n…Children’s VHSs (1<\/b> video watched)
\n…Adult Fiction (377<\/b> titles read)
\n…Adult Nonfiction (589<\/b> titles read)
\n…Adult Cassette Tapes (2<\/b> tape sets listened to)
\n…Adult CDs (432<\/b> discs listened to)
\n…Adult DVDs (106<\/b> discs watched)
\n…Periodicals (66<\/b> issues read)<\/p>\n
Do you think that’s cheating?<\/p>\n
I totally do. Which is why I also separate my reading out into books and into adult books.<\/p>\n
I’ve read 2857<\/b> books since starting this project–a rate of 1.39<\/b> books per day.<\/p>\n
I’ve read 1032<\/b> adult books and periodicals since beginning the project–a rate of .5<\/b> books per day.<\/p>\n
It’s been 311 days since I last tabulated my reading, and in that time, I’ve read\/listened to\/watched…
\n…312<\/b> Picture books (one per day)
\n…9<\/b> First readers (just under 1 per month)
\n…9<\/b> Beginning chapter books (just under 1 per month)
\n…57<\/b> Children’s fiction books (about 5.5 per month)
\n…16<\/b> YA books (about 1.5 per month)
\n…52<\/b> Children’s nonfiction books (about 5 per month)
\n…9<\/b> Children’s CDs (about 1 per month)
\n…1<\/b> Children’s DVD
\n…29<\/b> Fiction books (just under 3 per month)
\n…49<\/b> Nonfiction books (just under 5 per month)
\n…166<\/b> Adult CDs (16 per month)
\n…9<\/b> Adult DVDs (just under 1 per month)
\n…6<\/b> Periodicals (about 1 every two months)<\/p>\n
Since I check out my materials in 6 week intervals, let’s look at what I typical consume per library trip (vs. what I typically check out<\/i> per library trip):
\n…42<\/b> Picture books (vs. 50 checked out)
\n…1.2<\/b> First Readers (this is probably the average checked out too)
\n…1.2<\/b> Beginning Chapter Books (ditto above)
\n…7.7<\/b> Children’s fiction (vs. 6-8 checked out)
\n…2.2<\/b> YA books (vs. 2-3 checked out)
\n…7<\/b> Children’s nonfiction (vs. 8 checked out)
\n…2.8<\/b> Adult fiction (vs. 4-5 checked out)
\n…4.7<\/b> Adult nonfiction (vs. 6-8 checked out)
\n…23.6<\/b> CDs (vs. 25 checked out)
\n…1.3<\/b> DVDs (vs. 1 checked out–this is because I sometimes get the DVDs via Netflix or whatever and then count them because the library does own a copy)<\/p>\n
Yes, that’s right. I typically check out 100-110 items from the library each visit–and have consumed an average of 98 items per 6 week visit. Not bad if you ask me.<\/p>\n
According to my brother-out-law (who is a library aide) and his coworker (a librarian), there are approximately 30,000 books at the library I’m attempting to read through. Which means that (if I’ve got my math right: 30,000 books x 6 weeks\/98 books x 1 year\/52 weeks) it will take me around 35 years to complete this project.<\/p>\n
Yes, it’ll take me forever to read my library-but I’ll say I’m making halfway decent progress :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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