If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

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If you read one book a week starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books. We all have a certain maximum number of books we can read before we’re considered “bored to death.” The more important question is whether or not you’ve been able to help move the world forward.

Source: The Yellowlighted Bookshop: A Memoir, A History

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