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I’ll be putting up Record pages on the sidebar, for media I’m consuming. look for more of them to appear as the year moves on and for a roundup post on the books I read last year. I only got to 42 books last year, I’m going to figure out a page count from that, get an average number of pages per volume and then add to that number of pages proportionaly for the amount i’d like to read this year, though I will still shoot for 52 volumes, I’m ultimately more concerned with the amount I’m reading in total then the number of books.

I have an attraction these last weeks to reading big imposing books, like Stephenson’s last 4 novels, the Baroque Cycle and Anathem, which are (where the text of the novels proper close and excluding indexes and appendix, etc.) 916, 815, 887, and 890. There’s an article in Wired about Stephenson and their page numbers differ wildly from the ones I get by looking at the books, though they’re counting all forwards, indexes glossaries, etc. I’m thinking also of reading some Pynchon and maybe tackling Infinite Jest. 2009 may be the year of large novels.

I’ll put up my reading schemata once I calculate it.