Tom Ayling
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rebekahmt00x :
What about books we don’t have a record of?
2023-10-03 19:58:26
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Jake :
But how long would it take in general to read every book ever published in English?
2023-10-07 00:46:37
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🇵🇸☆Mo☆🪨❄️🌲🪻 :
AND this is with no account of the incredible wealth this reader needs to have to be able to acquire all these books
2023-10-24 02:25:10
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Big Doc Mystic :
you're making a bold assumption that it would be a week per book.
2023-09-30 12:49:43
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Rozzie (they/she) :
There are booktok girlies who read like 400 books a year so maybe a tiny bit longer than your estimate
2023-09-30 15:42:37
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Iloveinhalingatoms :
If you read every word in English, you've technically read every book in English, just that the words are rearranged and or repeated
2023-09-30 21:56:19
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Em :
Wait but couldn’t they have just started when the first book was printed?
2023-09-30 16:00:22
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katarzynastomskapoetry🏠⭐️☁️🎸 :
Damm.thats a lot. when I 10 I got an award for reading all the books in the school library.That was 15o. 1000 is a bit much 🥰
2023-09-30 11:50:03
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JplaysGames37 :
And that’s only including ones from the printing press. There were lots of handwritten manuscripts before then. I think it would be near impossible.
2023-09-30 12:17:00
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Cody Craddock :
one book a week. those are rookie numbers 😂
2023-10-01 01:27:35
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Dk 45 :
If you are reading 24 hours a day you could read at least 10 books a week
2023-10-01 19:36:35
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David Harry - The London Spy :
I’ve got a single leaf from one of these books- Caxton’s Polychronicon of 1482!
2023-09-30 15:42:39
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alpaca :
but what if Im just built diferent
2023-09-30 17:45:23
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james :
time to go back to 1506 bye
2023-09-30 13:39:03
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Travis Reed :
Or you could just read the dictionary. Technically it’s all the books just not in order 😂
2023-10-02 02:56:16
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Graham MacDonald :
how many if those books are bibles? I feel like you could skip the re-reads
2023-10-01 14:42:57
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youravgcapricorn :
forget boy math and girl math. book math is the new math
2023-10-01 01:16:47
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Penelope :
what if they only read fiction books? i’m assuming a lot of these books were non-fiction commentary on religion or monarchy etc
2023-09-30 23:58:47
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Accidental_Hermit :
I wonder how much our hypothetical reader was spending on all those books in the early 1500a🤔
2023-09-30 22:45:08
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az00s :
why not use page count instead?
2023-09-30 21:36:03
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Zero :
Johnson said ideally one would read 6-8 hours a day – learned 🇬🇧 gentlemen had little more exciting to do (alone) apart from cracking spines 📚
2023-09-30 21:12:31
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7 :
book a week is too slow for a true man of latter's to be honest
2023-09-30 19:48:22
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David Harry - The London Spy :
I’ve also got two leaves from another one of those books - Wynkyn de Worde’s Golden Legend of 1527
2023-09-30 15:43:53
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mareincognitum :
What changed? Why the sudden spike from 15 a year to 100?
2023-09-30 15:34:58
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Whispering Voids :
I read a 300+ pg book a day after work as a slow read. Even textbooks wouldn't be a bother (excluding uncooperative ADHD) if you're not trying to retain info 😐
2024-07-06 18:52:42
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Charlie GALVIN 🇺🇸 :
Now I feel far less guilty about the length of my “to be read” queue. 😄
2023-10-09 03:53:33
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Freddi Fish :
Randall Munroe covers this in What If? 2
2023-10-08 14:21:18
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SorSupShaggy :
What about those rare people who can 500 pages in a day?
2023-10-06 22:48:01
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Taaj Manzoor :
Do they have to read every single newspaper?
2023-10-05 06:42:33
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sarah :
just ask a booktok gal
2023-10-05 04:40:06
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oli_griffin :
1 book a week? think of all the like 200 page and below books which can easily be read in a day and kiddie style books which can be read in like 20min
2023-10-04 21:56:45
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MysticsTemple :
I saw a London spy post this tuther day
2023-10-04 18:29:32
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nickpapagiorgio :
just read faster smh
2023-10-04 12:17:38
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robynhunt6 :
Genuinely glad Tom has settled this for us ...😁
2023-10-03 13:35:14
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mykytagostyev :
What if we stop printing books today, for the same person, how long would it take to catchup
2023-10-02 19:14:41
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Thomas :
so no
2023-10-02 18:42:00
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Creepy Eye :
fanfiction girlies, step forth
2023-10-02 06:10:44
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Akiva Weinberger :
When would this be for a smaller language, such as Navajo?
2023-10-02 04:02:13
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Ira Couvillion :
Written in English not printed, awesome math though
2023-10-02 03:21:04
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Eve at Night :
Is this a re-post because I swear I heard this before?
2023-10-01 23:52:02
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Shear Ali :
wow in depth
2023-10-01 22:39:42
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Ems :
So a life time as long as you started at approximately 10yo and its the 1500’s
2023-10-01 18:12:50
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musickmaniac13 :
I can't understand how someone asks that? Each year thousands of books published. Some people/events alone 1,000's on & some authors do 100's books.
2023-10-01 16:43:02
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Ybot :
A bit longer. People can definitely get thru a book every other day
2023-10-01 15:17:44
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CapybaraMan :
@Tom Ayling would you be able to provide the source where you got your book publication numbers? I've looked and have not been able to find it. Ty!
2023-10-01 09:09:01
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Hhhhhhh :
One book a week is light work…
2023-10-01 07:56:55
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Matt :
What about taking into account most of those books would be copies of each other. What if only took into account first additions of original stories?
2023-10-01 05:10:15
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AdventuresInAutism :
I read way more than one book per week. I average four books per week. How long would I be able to keep up?
2023-10-01 04:46:53
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