[prepend]

I don’t think the specific number is important and the theme of the post seems to be about reading more.

50 is just arbitrary and I still like it better than “how to read a lot of books each year.”

I don’t think the goal should be high quantity. But the goal should be developing a habit of reading and getting good information and/or pleasure from books.

[dsirola]

True, but I see a trend where everybody is trying to "hack" reading by listening to audio books on 3x or other tricks which is a complete nonsense for professional books and absorbing the information.