I always believe that it's not how many books we've read that crown the importance chart but rather, is how much have we gained and learned some lessons or values to be embedded or that producing changes in our life even from just a single book.
It is actually quite disturbing when some people inquiring with quite an abundance of time regarding on my personal total finished titles, and more often than not, this question undoubtedly rendering myself with a brimming reluctance to respond, as if I was being asked "How many games that you've played?"
I've met a person who posted an amount of photos parading list of books he/she (identity clue concealment intended) has bought or currently read, and one doesn't need a detective intuition to easily deduct that the person is a 'heavy reader' based on the visible 'super intellectual' book titles (refer [1] for Miss Elliott's fascinating scale for the heaviness of readers). However, despite the notion of 'the more one read, the better one becomes', it seems to me, at least for this particular case perhaps, that the notion falls apart as I've experienced on how unprofessional the person is as a team and some other names has verified the statement coming from their experiences as well.
Do we who felt annoyed are any better? Of course not, in fact, it struck me right on the conscious mind that sometimes, either one has or hasn't read a book, yields the same result. And it serves me a great deal of reminder that having a plenty of finished books on the shelf doesn't make a person wise, and there're many other ways to learn apart from churning a thick book, namely brainstorming alternatives instead of giving up in real-life situation for example.
I don't know how to end the paragraph so maybe a piece of advice would do: read a book to your heart's content, as if it will be the last book you read. Take as much as you can, and just like a photograph is just a shadow and doesn't represent the real thing, I believe that pretending to be smart is a complete waste of time when it can be used for more meaningful acts even in the absence of the public's eye.
[1] http://misselliottsfascinatingenglishblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-makes-heavy-reader.html