How many books do you plan to read in 2017, Veeky Forums?

365, a day

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.

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.

wait people on this board actually read books?

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

You could read nearly 30000 at that pace though

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

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.

Underrated post

Just enough to make me appear literate

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.

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

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.

Kant and Hegel, so probably 10 in total.

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

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

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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.

50 would be nice

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

365

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

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?

DEVILISH

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

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

So, maybe 3.

38

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

5.

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.

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

>He doesn't read a thousand pages an hour

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

>>not bloomInBlume.jpg

my bare minimum goal is one book a month

>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.

0

>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.

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.

Doing this with In Search of Lost Time

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

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.

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.

none prolly

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.

>e/lit/es

100-200 if possible.

More than I will.

Cute, I'll be hitting 50,000

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.

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

He is disgusted with you.

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

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

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HAHAHAHAH!
Ceit, is that you?

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

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

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.