52 books in 52 weeks (with data tracking)

An absolutely excellent book list. If all those books are available on Project Gutenberg (which it seems they are), this is one hell of an achievement as a civilisation, that we have managed to make freely available these foundations of educated thought.

How much time does he spend every day to read them? I'm always impressed by people who tell me they read a book in a few days. I understand that one can learn to read faster, but for non-technical books this always lead me to be unable to clearly envision the world it is taking place in. Just like a narrated movie. Even if I slow down I often can't remember the names and places in the book. In two hours I might read about 50 pages. Far too slow to even stand a chance doing the same challenge he does.

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i wonder how many technical books the average HN'er reads per year. My own personal goal is to read 5 books a year

&#62;I've only just this minute taken a mere six steps to get from Jack Lemmon to Samuel Pepys<p>I wonder how often a path between two pages on Wikipedia is unique once its length is known. (You know, assuming no cycles were abused inbetween.)