Short answer? 129,864,880
Long answer: Check out Inside Google Books' post on how they arrived at that number. Honestly, it's quite fascinating if you are a literary geek with a love for the scientific method. Their exclusions and concatenations and values and checksums intrigued me, but I won't pretend to regurgitate their method to you. It's lengthy.
My question: With there being almost 130 million books in the world, how many do you think you'll read in your lifetime?
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3 Comments:
Good question! I would've thought that there are more than 130 million books in the world, but I guess google knows more than me. I'm guessing that I'll read about 35,000 books or so in my life. Maybe more. Maybe less. It'd be fun to keep track.
Dear lord, that's a lot! It's like the population of China...it keeps getting bigger and bigger by the second. Could you imagine even attempting to read that many? Incredible!
Also I thought they were more. It happened to me a book that it had some interesting parts but the majority was horrible. I finally gave it by bookmooch.
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