An updated FAQ

I wrote a couple of FAQs at the start of the project, but I think that I may need to do a new one. I've gotten some different questions over the years (years! gah), and some things have changed. Here goes:

Who created the list? (unstated but implied follow up: why trust them): 
So, confession time. Like the question about whether I read the list in order, this one really took me by surprise the first time someone asked it. It never occurred to me to care. I use this list which is based on a book. The recommendations were compiled from several editors/lit professors, I believe (I read about it right after this first was asked, but it didn't fully lodge in the brain). I guess I don't really care because I'm not reading the books to read the "best books" or the books I'd most enjoy or whatever. It's about broadening reading horizons. Any list will always be arbitrary, and that's fine.

How far are you?
This one changes all the time, but I'm at 662. Next big milestone is 750 (taking celebration suggestions), probably will hit that in Q1 2016 or so. Still aiming for completion by about age 32, but looking chancier than ever.

How do you find time?
I've written about that piece before, but here's a mini-answer. My strategies have varied over the years. I think one trick is being adaptive. The main piece is to prioritize this as much as possible. One thing that excites me and has been quite motivating lately is getting more organized. I've started systematically finding Online Archive and Project Gutenberg links for all the public domain options for older books. Oddly enough I'm going to run out of those soon, maybe in the next year. The slight issue is books in the German and the French; le sigh. I'll have to try harder with those. In addition to making it easier, at least for now, to read between library trips, it's just gotten me fired up to read more again. I read a lot online (just random articles), and this is helping to replace that in a way that helps the goal.

Do you buy all the books?
Good lord no. Way too expensive. I'm going to have to start buying some, but I'm going to try to minimize.