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Over on his personal website, Art Garfunkel has done something pretty fascinating (and oddly neurotic). He has listed every book (complete with how many pages the book is) that he’s read since June 1968. The list would make Art’s high school English teacher proud—it’s all Dante and Twain and Delillo and Sophocles. But what would inspire someone to publish this information (besides the obvious reason of showing off)? And if you had to disclose every book that crossed your hands in your adult life, don’t you think you might be inclined to fudge a little? Did he really finish Dickens’ Bleak House(975 pp.) in 1989, or did he just, you know, buy it? Whatevers his motives were, that level of dedication to the archive and record keeping is pretty amazing. Even if he did leave off the entire Harry Potter series.