hobbits measure this with bookfeets

[aamcnamara]

bookfeet (bŏŏk-fēt) pl. n. Unit of measurement in books, in terms of how much shelf-space a given amount of volumes take up; e.g., "How many books are you bringing to college?" "Oh, about five bookfeet."

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Never have time to read all these books" is an opinion I generally discount out of hand. It signals to me "does not have any idea how much I read."

(I'm glad it was nice! I mostly enjoy it, but there are certain things about the physical campus right now that point out to me some very shallow short-term thinking administratively, and that makes me sad.)