Level up! 1000 read books.

As a RPG gamer, I always think that the first few levels are intentionally easy, but having past the first ten level ups, things get more difficult.

• Level 1: set up the blog
• Level 2: Publishing the first review
• Level 3: Getting the first views from readers through search engines
• Level 4: Publish 5 reviews
• Level 5: Publish 20 reviews
• Level 6: every day a hit – constant traffic
• Level 7: first follower
• Level 8: Publish 50 reviews
• Level 9: 5 views daily
• Level 10: Publish a guest review
• Level 11: Schedule a review
• Level 12: Attract a pingback
• Level 13: 50 ARC Reviews
• Level 14: 500 Likes
• Level 15: 600 Posts
• Level 16: 1000 Likes
• Level 17: One is fine, two is better
• Level 18: Be elite
• Level 19: Reblogged
• Level 20: 100 Followers
• Level 21: 750 posts
• Level 22: Reblog a post
• Level 23: 100 ARCs
• Level 24: 100 daily views
• Level 25: 900 posts
• Level 26: ARC-free
• Level 27: 1000 read books

A month ago was my last Level up! ARC-free.

Goodreads tells my that I’ve read 1,000 books.

At least that’s the number of books that I’ve registered there. Most of the computer science stuff that I read professionally doesn’t count. Same for books I read as student.

But give or take that’s the number I deal with. At first glance, that sounds huge, like 50 shelves filled with books, a small library!

On the other hand, it isn’t really a life full of reading. Years of negligence, other interests diminish the number I could have achieved. Yes, life came into the way of reading. And I won’t ever promise that I’ll keep up any pace.

I won’t ever be able to read all the best books. Reading time has an undefined upper limit, and I’m facing that remaining time. Maybe another 1000 books, who knows?

I just hope for many five star books!

What’s your reading count? Can you visualize that number filling shelves?