It's a figure of speech in response to a questionable person or troll conflating Hitler with Pol Pot, but I have read endless, and I mean
endless books, plans, scrolls, charts and whatever else throughout my lifetimes. So hundreds of thousands is not really hyperbolic in that sense, because the number is ultimately true. You cannot become ToZ Researcher while being barely able to interact with them. Not all books are novels of hundreds of thousands of words either, most books could not be that length historically.
When I was two years old I could communicate completely accurately with correct grammar, when I was four I was recalling things about adult intellectual subjects (things way beyond the realm of what children can ever know) in extreme accuracy that freaked out my teachers when they realized it was correct. That part is what is weird... and definitely not normal. There were tons of incidents like that. I couldn't figure out where this came from either because when rereading childhood books of mine, it had very little on those subjects.
As for absorbing contents of books by touch, no. That's not a skill I developed, and that takes a lot of time to accomplish. I have had elements of precognition and flashing of what exactly is in the book throughout my life, and that has become much more intense lately.
Think about volume in terms of the internet as well. People have a resistance to reading books because they're harder, they don't have this resistance to reading internet slop. Part of this is not just about reading in volume but
WHAT you are deciding to read and
WHETHER it is true or not.
People nowadays read endless content on their phones and in video games, e
stimated to be 100,000 words per day (easily equal to tens of thousands of books in some cases by age 35 supposing a person starts at age 12), that they would never, ever touch with books, but sorry, most of it is of little value. In some cultures like China, this level of reading was historically encouraged,
but independent thought is not. So yes, a lot of the time instead of video gaming or reading the internet, I was just reading books instead.
The biggest leap forward with reading is being able to distinguish falsehood from truth, and this is very difficult. In most cases, it still requires practical and empirical experience of a subject. Beyond that, honing the psychic faculty is another thing altogether. Someone can have all the intellectual prerequisites, but if they have schizo tendencies, damaged lower Chakras and live in lalaland, no point. Others have an inbuilt defiant resistance to admitting they are wrong or even admitting they don't know,
which is fatal to inquiry.
Another thing is that taste can sometimes interfere. With Astrology especially, but now with the Personalities, I read tons and tons of autobiographies and biographies. A lot of people won't do that if they find the figure or field they relate to in question uninteresting, or they hate them [on a personal level]. I was fascinated about people, so I abandoned that mindset quickly.
The amount the Clergy has read is
beyond comprehension. They are the masters [just look at how HPS Maxine created a holistic Astrology system digging through endless b/s], and all of us Guardians are not on that level. Furthermore, SG Alex, for example, has more practical and visual knowledge than me. There are a lot of things outside of books.