I do this every year. My normal target is 52 books, which seems reasonable. I set it at 104 one year, but then realised my love of long dense history books made that unreasonable. I normally hit the target or go slightly over. In 2016 I only had 33/52 but that’s still a good no of books.
I’ve set myself 25, I’d like to think that’s a low target but that’s pretty much what I’ve been averaging for the last few years. I wish I was disciplined enough to read a book a week!
Hah that makes me sound like I’m joining the army or having to force myself, when it’s more like having to force myself to not constantly be reading a book to get things done.
Maybe it’s because if I don’t set myself a target amount, I’ll barely read at all. So in my head, I have to be strict / disciplined to combat my own laziness. I don’t ever really feel like I’m forcing myself to read though.
Would a high target of say 104 books not start to feel like a chore?
It did- and when I read a long book I’d think “I could have been reading two or three short ones in this time” and realised how ridiculous it was that I was changing my behaviour to match some stupid counter. So I changed the target back to the comfortable one a week.