Voracious Readers, Indeed

My family and I had a very good laugh after finding this in our town newspaper. Take a close look at the caption. Those kids would have to be seriously crazy to attempt to read 500 hours in a month, and they would surely be a bit loopy by the end of it. February is only 28 days long, so that would work out to about 17 hours, 52 minutes of reading per day. That would leave just over 6 hours to eat, sleep, etc. per day. I can just imaging these two kids sitting in a pile of books all day, every day. Reading while eating, reading on the bus, reading all through school, ignoring their teachers, parents, and friends, eyes bloodshot, suckin' down double espressos and just reading like crazy. Of course, they actually meant five hundred minutes. Wowee, front page news.