A hideous realization, and the 2025 book census

When I was working at the counter in the bakery in Minneapolis, I would sometimes read a library book during downtime. (Hey, listen, you can't really go in the back and start mopping if you need to be ready to react to customers. Once you've tidied up the front, you're out of tasks.) So at one point, a co-worker asked me "how many books do you even read?" and I realized I did not actually know the…