How many books do you plan to read in 2017, /lit/?

>>8907019
Y'know I'm gonna be honest OP, I was gonna say "all of them" but then I had this strange feeling that compelled me to not be a jackass and I don't know why.

So ... 20-ish

>>8907019
412

>>8907019
ALL OF THEM

100 is always my goal, I don't usually reach it.

So like 75?

i hope 50

Probably 3. I'm not a big reader.

Around 20 probably.

Hopefully more

I have this thing where I read a bunch of books at the same time, so much so that I only finish about one book a month. I'd like to cut that in half this year by concentrating on new books that I'm actually passionate about.

>>8907019
At least 52, probably 8-10 more. It will be my first full not in some kind of schooling, so I have no idea if I will speed up or not.

365, a day

>>8907019
40. I've fallen short of that goal the last two years. 2015 I managed 33, this year 25. I'm not NEET, I'm too busy to read as much as I'd like

No particular number.

I find setting a goal on reading a specific quantity turns literature into a game rather than something to enjoy.

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5000

30 or so.
But who cares if I don't reach it?
I just want to meet interesting idead and cultures.

It took me a month to finish 2666.
15 books probably.

>2015 book count - 37
>2016 book count - 26
reading a 1200-page book, and five or six 600-page books over months certainly didnt help this year, but I'd like to pass 40 and - optimistically - 50

My goal is 150, but 100 would be alright.

>>8907019
wait people on this board actually read books?

>>8907124
Dang son

Assuming I don't get a busier job or off myself, I'd like to hit 52

I did 35 this year and only really started reading back in june

>>8907119
You could read nearly 30000 at that pace though

>>8907123
Same problem here my dude. Like I only read 15 books this year but several of them were over 700 pages, 2 were over a thousand. That's why counting how many books you read is kind of dumb.

At least 20, more if I can find the time to.

20

>>8907162
It's not that hard, you just need to have no social life.

0 (Zero)

I read 53 this year and started in march, stopped in november.

I don't know if i'll read the same amount it starts to feel pointless cause i'm so useless and can't even start writing. I quit at everything i do.

Hoping to read 24, two for every month.

>>8907168
Underrated post

>>8907019
Just enough to make me appear literate

>>8907019
12 books with an average page number of 300 is my minimum amount. My goal however is 18 books, but I don't expect to achieve it.

>>8907019
So far? 2.
I don't read to fill a quota or a shelves just so people come by and ask "wow did you read all those?" I just fucking pirate whatever is interesting to me and devour them on my kindle. So eh. We see what good 2017 brings and how many older ones I discover and that's gonna be the number.

Wanting to read 40 books in 2016 was the worst fucking decision I've made, I was so self-conscious that I MUST read them all that I wasn't able to fully appreciate the book at hand. Towards the end of the year I've read about 18 and the last 3 books were just to plow through to make it half way.

Tl;dr, it's a shit idea and I'm not planning to read heroic amounts. Probably 25 or so

>>8907811
How did you even select 40 books? I have trouble to find ONE book that interests me and is reasonably well written, (I like fantasy shit with wizard, I know pleb tier, but most fantasy shit with wizard is written either by or for actual babies).

also: I have trouble finishing any book because I subconsciously stop picking it up the closer I get to the end. I know I will feel like a great journey has come to an end, Like I've lost a dear friend who had his hand on my shoulder all this time and is now suddenly gone.

>>8907019

Kant and Hegel, so probably 10 in total.

>>8907811
At the moment I have about 300 books on queue that I genuinely want to read, so it's not that hard to choose from them

>>8907019
i started mid 2016 with reading and got done with 50
so the only reasonable goal for 2017 is 100

>>8907824
>>8907839

>>8907019
I already have a list of around 13 books, but I'll be trying to get to 20, just don't know exactly what to pick yet, I'll just leave the spot open for now.

>>8907019
50 would be nice

I'd be content with something like 40, will see anyway.

365

>>8907824
get off my board you fucking pleb, literally the western canon should take you years to finish and you can't dismiss any of them
literature is not for you, why are you even here

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who here will be finishing the last page of a book one minute after midnight tonight so it counts towards next year's tally, giving you a cheeky headstart?

>>8907930
DEVILISH

>>8907019
40-50, wish I could hit 52 like my pre-job days but realistically I won't.

100 although this year I'm going to read more door stoppers like Anna Karenina for example. In 2016 I read 132 books/38500 pages according to goodreads.

I want to finish every book in my physical backlog. So 20 or so.

It will be hard not to buy more.

I have read ~8000 pages this year which is fucking nothing compared to the year before, I realized that my video game addiction really fucked me up again so I uninstalled all of them and aiming for at least double that. Work takes some time but I don't care about socializing so basically all I will do is work, read, write and watch films. Still better than video games.

5-10 books to start

>>8907019
I will read more books than movie that I'll watch, that's for sure.

So, maybe 3.

38

>>8907946
I'm trying to do the same, I think I have around 30 there now, and I'm gonna end up buying another 20 or so at a booksale that happens in the spring. The sale has almost every good book published in the last 200 years (total of 600,000 books in a giant warehouse) for around 50 cents a book.

40

>>8907019
5.

>>8907019
I'm going to read 20. That's 19 up from every year previous.

26

one every two weeks

Somewhere between 10 and 20. Got lots of shit to do and other hobbies to distract me but I'm sure I'll find the time.

Aimed for 12 in and absolutely smashed that many in this latter half of this year.

Aiming for 24 books with an average 300 pages in 2017. I hardly ever include any academic reading though which will probably also increase next year. Still, two recreational books a month seems reasonable for me.

>>8907019
realistically i'll be happy if i read the 12 i've planned
i'm a stemfag

I'd like to average 20 pages a day

i aim for 50 a year and usually hit it

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>>8909046

>He doesn't read a thousand pages an hour

>>8909046
So like 25-30 mins a day? Are you serious?

>>8909060
>>not bloomInBlume.jpg

my bare minimum goal is one book a month

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>mfw have read 1 (one) book this year with ~150 pages, because of my 2d porn addiction
I try to double this number, but I can't guarantee anything.

>>8909107
>>8909110

>you share the board with degenerates like these

JUST

tfw only read the Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird this year.

They are like 200 pages total.

>>8909107
what a world to live in to be able to share such a specific feel

I read one book in 2016, but it was over 1000 pages long so that's not a totally pathetic number.

I am about 120 pages into writing my own novel, though, so I guess it could have been a worse year.

>>8907930
Doing this with In Search of Lost Time

>>8909079
Reading Lolita took me 3 minutes per page, probably because I'm not an anglo native.

And I like to comprehend what I'm reading, regardless of the language.

50 pages a day.

Shooting for 1/week desu

>>8909060
Why does he always look so troubled? What's his problem?

I started counting pages overall. I used to read bricks and then even it out with some short stories or small philosophical texts, pretty autistic but I can't help it. So pages for me now.

>>8909289
Degeneration of the modern world, destruction of moral values, shallow materialism, capitalism taking over universities etc, basically everything.

You know I always thought this board was for the e/lit/es, these numbers (even discounting the jokes) are making me feel rather good.

Also 60.

Around 30, I suspect. Aimed for 30 this year and made 20 or 21, because I ended up traveling for a month more than I expected, and as such returned only 2~3 days before classes started.
I'll be studying abroad for a semester next year, so I suspect I'll get more reading done with no PC around, but on the other hand I'll likely spend more time outside getting to know people. 20-30 seems most realistic.

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none prolly

>>8909361
NEETs don't read whatever they say, people who work doesn't have that much time unless they are in academia and those don't post here.

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>>8909361
>e/lit/es

100-200 if possible.

More than I will.

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>>8907066
Cute, I'll be hitting 50,000

>>8907019
104 at a pace of two a week seems achievable

I would guess 10. I'm starting Ulysses so that will take up a sizable chunk of the year.

>>8909445
Bloom is don but why does he pull that fucking face all the time

>>8909528
He is disgusted with you.

>>8909445
he always seems sad, I would love to give him a hug.

>>8909574
He would be if he knew my reading habits. You really don't know how right you are

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>>8909528
>>8909583

>>8907168
HAHAHAHAH!
Ceit, is that you?

>>8909589
I do a hell of a lot more than the brainless masses but I still don't feel as though it's enough which is why I said >>8909494

>>8907930
I did this last year, not intentionally but later I realized what it could mean to my reading in 2016.

same as this year

0

>>8907930
I'm trying to finish a book to achieve this year's tally

My goal this year was 4. I read 0. I think I'll go with 4 again.

>>8907065
this

>>8907031
came bo tost dis

>>8907019
Hopefully around 50. I did 70 this past year, but have uni full-time so it'll probably drop.

>>8907019
I don't really plan those sorts of things. Sorry.

Hopefully one or 2 books a day.

>>8907065
this is true, i end up forcing through quickly without actually thinking about what i'm reading if i ever set a deadline to finish a book.

i'll just go with "read a lot" this year

I read a lot of long non historical non fiction and "classics" books so probably 40 or so

>>8907019

My hope is about 30. That's just above my usual pace.

Is anyone else kind of depressed by the fact that you'll never be able to read all the books you want to? I feel like as soon as I cross one book off my list I add two more.

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All of them

>>8907019
I think I'm going to go for about 20.

I WILL BE READING
BOOKS

>>8907019
2017 of them

>>8909361
This board is really pleb behind the veneer of elitism

Describes most interest boards actually

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5 to 10. I don't have enough time to read yet, I need to git gud at Dota 2, study for my physics major and work on my massive anime backlog. Think around 2019 or 2020 where I can start seriously reading

One for every girl i have lain with

>>8907019
I want to read at least one book a week. Maybe two if they're short enough.

>>8907019
Over 9000. No really.

~100

>>8911476
>git gud at Dota 2
that ride never ends my friend, just quit it if you can

t. 5k and started in 6.4x in WC3

>>8907019
I'm gonna become proficient in reading Persian and Sanskrit and read however many books it takes and however many I like after that

>>8911476
lol @ calling anime "work"/pretending you don't have time to read bc of that
just fuckn do whatever you want but don't pretend it's divinely ordained

>>8907019
Read about 50 in 2016, hoping I can double it this year.

>>8907019
I've managed to read 3 last year, this year I'm going with 6.

Last year I read around 42 books (plus a lot of essays, chapters in other books, articles, complete manga series, and short stories), so this year I plan to at lest 50 books and whatever shorter texts come my way.