Voracity: example

Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, is said (Christianity Today, October 2010) to be a voracious reader and collector of books.  How voracious is this man?  His personal library contains over 40,000 books.  They are arranged in rooms, by theme.  And every book has been catalogued.

Now, it's unlikely he sat down and catalogued all 40,000 at one time.  But if we allow a minute per book, he has spent 40,000 minutes cataloguing.  667 hours.  83 eight-hour days.  17 work-weeks.  In my spare time it took me months to catalog my (relatively) little library of 1200 books using Book Collector software (a very good tool).

How he manages to read and collect books while leading a seminary and writing his own books and sharing his beliefs online is hard to imagine.