Books
Have I ever mentioned that the last time i was in NZ (primary 5, year 1999), I used to come back from the library with a stack of 10 books each week - and finish them?
It seems like im starting the same thing - just that now my books are on my laptop. And i don’t count books by the number i read anymore… its all by file size.
Some pointless details :
eBook Folder size (.txt .lit .pdf .doc .rtf & .htm(l) files) : 135MB
of which i’ve read probably around 2/3 of it : so thats roughly 85MB over 4 years since I started accumulating them.
Which isn’t much compared to, say, movies - one 2 hour movie is roughly 600MB.
But its a lot of text.
1000 words - roughly 20kb in a .doc file, say 10-15kb in a .txt file …
so taking 15kb per 1000 words,
85000/15 * 1000= 5666,667 words or 5.7 million words in 4 years.
What’s worrying, of course, is that I can remember finishing at least 8 books over the last 2 weeks.
AND its mid-semester exams season. (now’s the time to headdesk)
*the rough calculations thing i think i blame Mr Robert Heinlein and his somewhat annoying habit of penning figures into his fiction stories
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On another note, I think I like it here.
