i started reading when i was 4. from the time i was about 10 my parents told the librarians at the library in my home town that i was to be allowed to check out any book i wanted because i could read at a 12th grade+ reading level with the same level of comprehension. from then until the time i became a school teacher 25 years later i read around 400-450 books a year. since becoming a school teacher i generally read around 100 books a year. i’ve read close to 13000 books in my lifetime so far and i hope that i will get in another 7000-9000 more before i die. some books i reread on a more or less regular basis, they’re either old friends like the “lord of the rings” books i reread every couple of years or bitter enemies like “atlas shrugged” which i reread about once a decade to remind me exactly how evil the philosophical basis of so many republicans and “libertarians” is. i despise digital readers of all sorts and am a complete and total fan of dead tree libraries. i own about 5000 books and wish i had the shelf space to keep them out all at once.
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