What is the 1000 books project?
1000 Books
The goal of this project is to read 1000 books. This is an arbitrary number in the sense that I could have chosen any number. I chose it because it sounded nice and well-rounded. It could have been 999, but it would have felt incomplete.
Why this challenge?
There are a lot of yearly/monthly book reading challenges. Thought it'd be nice to do one about reaching a certain number of books.
But why read 1000 books? Why the challenge?
Books can be life-changing. I want to see for myself how true that is. I consider myself a reader, and I'm a competitive person - but I have a tendency to either binge or fall into ruts which shoots your consistency to hell. If I binge - I barely remember what I've read because I move from one book to another without reflecting on what I've read. If I fall into a rut - it gets hard to start reading again. I want to be more consistent in my reading and make an actual dent in my to read list. I'm not competing against anyone with this challenge, but it's a way to hold myself accountable.
For who is this?
If you want to do any of the following:
The goal of this project is to read 1000 books. This is an arbitrary number in the sense that I could have chosen any number. I chose it because it sounded nice and well-rounded. It could have been 999, but it would have felt incomplete.
Why this challenge?
There are a lot of yearly/monthly book reading challenges. Thought it'd be nice to do one about reaching a certain number of books.
But why read 1000 books? Why the challenge?
Books can be life-changing. I want to see for myself how true that is. I consider myself a reader, and I'm a competitive person - but I have a tendency to either binge or fall into ruts which shoots your consistency to hell. If I binge - I barely remember what I've read because I move from one book to another without reflecting on what I've read. If I fall into a rut - it gets hard to start reading again. I want to be more consistent in my reading and make an actual dent in my to read list. I'm not competing against anyone with this challenge, but it's a way to hold myself accountable.
For who is this?
If you want to do any of the following:
- become a reader
- read more books
- challenge yourself
- read more diverse books
- diverse can mean anything
- read books you've been telling yourself you'd read, but keep procrastinating on
- This challenge, this project - it starts with a clean slate.
- I have over a 100 books that I'm "reading" but can barely remember. Any book started 1 month or more ago doesn't count. Just start over.
- When a book is read - a review must follow (even if it's only 1 sentence).
- It's okay to combine this project with other challenges
What about when you finish reading 1000 books?
Well, it's going to take a while to get there - but when I do, it doesn't mean I'll stop being a reader. This, in the end, is only a challenge I'm willingly doing. Once I reach this arbitrary goal - just keep reading.
If you have any questions or comments please leave them below.
Thanks for reading.
- Kudrat
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