A scary statistic

[were_gopher]

The average British household has 138 volumes on its shelves, less than half of which have been read

I think that's the size of the stack of 'read then chuck back in the charity box' stack by my bed. This is apart from the 'read and keep stack' across the room (5 of the large cloth bags with stick handles + 3 folding crates).

Comments

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

I heard about this on the radio this morning when I was half awake, and thought at first they'd said the average household had an average of 138 books still to be read, which wasn't too far from the count here TBH.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to count the number of unread books in this house. Just take a guess from average buy per year including conventions = 150, average read me 80 - 100 him 40 - 60. subtract the detectives from the library (20?) and smooth my horror vs his mil SF and you still end up with a substantial surplus.

I have decided I cannot die until I have run out of unread books so at this rate, if the buy vs read curve holds, I should be good for another century.