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What's the point? If you enjoy reading and reading for fun then you'll just read as much as is fun for you. If you're reading professional books, then the quantity doesn't matter. I would rather spend a year with a single book like "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" revisiting chapters and reiterating same things to really absorb that knowledge than rush 1 book per week/month/whatever.

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I don’t think the specific number is important and the theme of the post seems to be about reading more.

50 is just arbitrary and I still like it better than “how to read a lot of books each year.”

I don’t think the goal should be high quantity. But the goal should be developing a habit of reading and getting good information and/or pleasure from books.

True, but I see a trend where everybody is trying to "hack" reading by listening to audio books on 3x or other tricks which is a complete nonsense for professional books and absorbing the information.

“What’s the point” was my reaction too.

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