TOO MUCH INFORMATION

Rick Warren is a prolific man. This blog seems to be dying on its feet, with a combination of a full church program, young family, and major house renovation squeezing the time and creativity out of me. Warren, with his church of thousands and a myriad demands on his time, doesn't seem to have much trouble churning out blog posts and tweets though, as well as books and sermons. Hyper-eloquent.

Anyway, Warren's recent tweet about having a library of 20,000 volumes provoked a certain amount of fluttering in the blog and twittersphere. That's quite a collection. And his buying policy was interesting too - used hardback rather than new paperback.

I normally review what I read on this blog, but regular visitors will have noticed a dearth of such reviews recently. I read some stuff that didn't seem worth reviewing, and then I hit a kind of reading block - just couldn't get into anything for a couple of weeks, which is unlike me. And now I am into The Brothers Karamazov, which is going to take a while to get through.

According to a report from the University of California, The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. An exabyte is a billion gigabytes. Printed documents of all kinds comprise only .003% of the total. That was a 2000 report, so doubtless the amount of info is now considerably more.

Its enough to make you never want to read a thing again...