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View Poll Results: Wonder what kind of readers we have on TOTV? How many books do you read per year? | |||
0-2 | 3 | 10.34% | |
3-4 | 1 | 3.45% | |
5-6 | 1 | 3.45% | |
7-8 | 1 | 3.45% | |
9-10 | 2 | 6.90% | |
10-20 | 5 | 17.24% | |
21-30 | 3 | 10.34% | |
31-40 | 2 | 6.90% | |
41-50 | 1 | 3.45% | |
51-60 | 2 | 6.90% | |
61-70 | 1 | 3.45% | |
71-80 | 0 | 0% | |
81-90 | 1 | 3.45% | |
91-100 | 1 | 3.45% | |
> 101 | 3 | 10.34% | |
read other materials than books | 2 | 6.90% | |
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll |
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How many books do you read per year?
I often read more than one book at a time so it is hard for me to answer this.
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Re: How many books do you read per week?
Normally I do 5-6 books a week, but I'm almost out of crayons. The only colors I have left are "flesh" and "thistle". :joke:
Seriously, I'll be very surprised if there is much dispersal in answers to this question. In a period as short as a week, I expect 95%+ to answer with the first option. Suggest the time period be expanded to 1 month and that zero be a separate selection. It's unfortunately becoming less and less surprising to find a large number of people who have not read an actual book since school days. :yikes:
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"You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me." About these voices? Are people attached to them? Once had a fellow student at the U of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management who always demanded an extra seat for her invisible friend. I just see numbers in weird places and think they may mean something. Who knows? |
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Re: How many books do you read per week?
Is question How many per week or per year? I thought was per week, then graph showed per year.
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Re: How many books do you read per week?
Tal,
I am too embarrassed to take part in your poll. I need a category that says, "Not enough. -Not even close." But your question did remind me how much I like to read. I see from your posts that you are very connected to libraries. I know a couple of people who work in public libraries, and I think most of the book loving public would not believe some of the stories librarians could tell. I saw a review of a recently published book titled "Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library" by Don Borchert. I have not read it yet, but I might. Has there ever been an attempt on TOTV to start a thread of book recommendations? -not anything as elaborate as book discussions, but something with recommendations here and there, with maybe just a blurb to go with the rec. -just wondering and I thought you would be the one to ask. Boomer
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I read way to much. About or more then 100 books a year. Better then television, can do anywhere, and usually the book is better then the movie.
I have a cat who hears voices. He will be laying around quiet as a mouse. All of a sudden he will jump 2 feet in the air and take off like his butt is on fire. Runs around the house 90 miles an hour, then settles back down. Has to be the voices.
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Re: How many books do you read per week?
As mentioned in an earlier post, the Subject is how many books do you read a week but the poll asks how many books do you read a year. Based on that I read 1/2 of a book a week but about 25-30 a year - and I also have two books going a time depending on the library turnaround.
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Re: How many books do you read per year?
Is it possible to change the Subject to read year instead of week. You might get more takers.
I checked the post because I wanted to see who read how many books a week. I know that I can do one a day if I really put my mind to it but would I enjoy it? I don't think so. You need to read so much and put the book aside and think about what you read. Since I do mostly mystery fiction, my time is spent trying to decide who done it.
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Tal: You need to make zero a separate answer - I don't want to be counted in with the people who read 1 or 2; people might think I spend all my time in a library.
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I have not noticed any large thread on recommended books even though smaller postings have showed up. I started one a ways back. https://www.talkofthevillages.com/sm...ic,1806.0.html |
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And speaking of Libraries - - -
I went to HS with two brothers who's father was a prof of library science at Univ of Chicago. Talk about weird kids! They used to play poker at their house with a bunch of their geek friends and at each bet they would bet in a different language - and not just saying numbers either. About 15 years later I ran into the older one in the unemployment line. He said he was working on his 3rd PhD.
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