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5000 Articles Read

As I was reading my daily 20 (as I like to call them), I checked my Twitter count to see if I've indeed reached the 20th mark for that evening.

Each day since last November, I've dedicated at least an hour each day to read 20 articles from numerous new sources. I haven't missed a day since that Thanksgiving Day when I decided to start it..in fact, most of the time I'll read more than 20.

205 days have elapsed since I've started this semi-aggressive reading and notating approach (each time I read an article, I'll post the link and title on Twitter). On day 204, I reached 5000; it just happened. I didn't think about it and it was a surprise truthfully speaking.

So I wanted to see how much I read on a daily basis, how many articles I've read per day on average, and how does that translate to books read.

June 20th, 2015
5028 articles total
~24.5 articles per day
Word count for today. I copied the text from each article and pasted it into Word, it came out to 10,808. I feel like today's articles represent an accurate portrayal of the length to which I'm accustomed to reading.

Most websites will list 80,000 words as the appropriate word count for a 320 page book at 250 words per page. I chose 90,000 because most of the books I read are around 350 to 400 pages long.

I'll knock off the 808 words just for the sake of discrepancy and to not favorite myself. I rather be under than over.

So at an average of 10,000 words read per day, that's 2,050,000 words read over the course of 205 days.

Taking that number and dividing it by 90,000 would be the same as me reading 22 to 23 books. I think that's a pretty impressive count in 6 months and 24 days.

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