I
love book giveaways for the instant recognition they get. I run one on Goodreads for every new release,
watching as hundreds of people add it to their to-be-read (TBR) list. Zero to 400 potential readers in two weeks. And all I have to do is sign a few proof
copies and ship them off.
Of
course, I’m interested in my new best friends, so I checked out a few of their
TBR lists. Some are long. There were ones with a few hundred titles…or
a few thousand…or how about over 110,000?
Wow, the optimism of it all!
How
long, I wondered, would it take to read 110,000 books? Well, my library gives me 3 weeks to read a
book, but if you’re in the 100,000 plus league, you probably polish them off at
a pretty good rate. Let’s say, 3 days
per book. And let’s say this person is
getting an early start and is only 12 years old when he/she amasses the list.
By
my trusty little calculator and giving this individual Leap Year’s Day off once
every four years, he/she can expect to polish off the list at the ripe old
age of 916.
So,
knowing that, what am I doing? I’m busy
on edition 2 of Half A Mind, looking
forward to the day when I can have a Goodreads Giveaway on it, because that
instant recognition is just so cool.
Image
by Eneas De Troya from Mexico City, México (Lectura para unas vidas) [CC BY 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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