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You are not allowed to leave your home until you have read every unread book you own – how long are you stuck for?
You are not allowed to leave your home until you have read every unread book you own – how long are you stuck for?
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You’ll never hear from me again.
Ok I like this one. Over a month easily
Um, bye
physical books? months.
Ebooks? several eons
Normal books? Months.
With school books? Add another year
Oohhh…about two weeks if I have to read my wife books.
I’m out the door straightaway if you only include mine.
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Great question OP!
Jokes on you, I can’t read
Months, perhaps years.
If I spot something good at a Friends of the Library book sale or a charity shop, I usually pick it up even if I have no intention of immediately reading it because I’ll likely never see it that cheap again. The most expensive thing I’ve ever bought at a FotL book sale was still only $5: an absolutely pristine hardcover omnibus edition of *The Cairo Trilogy* by Naguib Mahfouz (the list price for a new copy is $40). The same thing holds for the dollar sidewalk sales of our neighborhood used book store.
I also like having a large library of unread books to select from so that I can pick whatever suits my mood of the moment. A couple of years ago, for example, I started reading *The Honourable Schoolboy* by John le Carré, but genre fiction isn’t really my thing (even though I’ve enjoyed some of le Carré’s other books like *Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* and *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold*) and about two-thirds of the way through I was tired of the cloak-and-dagger stuff and just wanted to read stories of ordinary people living their lives. So I rummaged around my unread books and came up with *Dear Life: Stories* by Alice Munro, which turned out to be the best new-to-me thing I’d read in 2020.
0 mins.. i’ve read every single book in my home.
1 hour
A couple of years, probably, and that’s going hard.
Gotta love textbooks
HAHA… Ha… haa… … at *least* two months.
A month if it’s my books. If it’s every book in the house then years
long enough for.. wait what are you doing step bro?
I’m fucked, my little brother has read a lot of long books.
Forever 🥲
I have about an hour left on a historical biography. Easy peasy.
Not very long, maybe three or four days
around a day
Mmm not too long. Maybe a couple of months.
Now if it was just “read all the books in your house”…I’d say a few years. More probably. Doing that full time.
Accounting for sleeping time and other normal breaks, maybe 10 years. I have *a lot* of books. If you include all my unread e-books, then it’s probably several lifetimes.
At least 6 months, possibly up to a year. I have hundreds of books, some mine, some my husband’s and a few that my kid left when they moved out. Of my own books I think I have less than 10 that I haven’t read yet but if I had to read every book in this house that I haven’t read then it would take a lot of time.
Forever. I just kill myself.
I’m dead. Forget it.
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About 5 days, I am a fast reader if I want to
I can’t leave my house anyways.
But less than a day.
I have a book and a half and I could read them both until the end in an hour if I tried.
I’ve read all my other books countless times, and I’d do it again.
I have so many reference books including encyclopedias. That’s going to take a very long time.
not even a millisecond. i dont own any books because i am a minimalist. i read them and then give them away.
I hope this excludes my dictionary and stack of manuals for household appliances.
Most of my books are on my Kindle now, so not very long