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With all due respect to Art Garfunkel, whose work I greatly admire...I would suggest to tone it down a little bit :-) and maybe change the text on the page 1968 to 1978 from "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968." to maybe "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art bought, opened once, perused, read a few pages and some he read since 1968..." :-))

From 1968 to the end of 1978 you have approximately 3650 days...And since the page has the somewhat unusual take of also prominently listing the number of pages of each book...I was able to gather the total number of pages amounts to 43,612 pages. 12 pages per day for 10 years? Uhmmm...

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> 12 pages per day for 10 years?

Now I feel bad about constantly complaining that I don't read enough. 12 pages a day is easy, even for heavier works.

That honestly impressive how much you could read with just 12 pages a day.

Edit: Okay, a small script that grabs the first three years of books, with a bug, or two, somewhere, tells me that you actually need to read about 120 pages per day, not 12. That makes more sense. It's ten times more, but still do able.

Hmm, instead of 12 pages per day, that's just 84 pages per week. Nothing to "tone down" IMHO, because that's easily managable. We have about 5K books at home (not pages, books) which we bought and read over 40 years (not owning a TV set over that time ;-) and reading sixty to one hundred pages per evening isn't that hard to accomplish for a book lover.

I read the hobbit and around the world in 80days in English (not my native tongue) as a kid. Those two took me 5 days. The bible (nih) took me 27. Lotr trilogy took me six days. Book reading time depends on how boring it is. You could totally read a midsized book in a day. That is more than a hundred pages. This leaves you with 9 days of not reading at all.

In all honesty, 12 pages per day doesn't really seem that much.

Not if you combine those years with Studying Art, Graduating, Studying Law, Helping others Graduate by reading their own works to them, Rehearsing, Touring, Recording, Doing Movies :-)

As I said, a career I greatly admire. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel

That might explain why he's read relatively few books in all that time.

What's your point? Do you think 12 pages a day is a high number?

I'm sure I've exceeded that over a similar period. Likely anyone who enjoys reading regularly has.

> 12 pages per day for 10 years?

I don't know exactly what I average per day. But certainly way more than a measly 12 pages.

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