I'm starting to feel like it is time to make the transition from reading to writing.

In the past, I've always felt like I had to stop researching prematurely due to an external deadline imposed by a professor. With my dissertation, I'm experiencing the opposite: an internal prompt to stop reading and start writing -- with the accompanying sense that continuing to read will result in decreasing marginal returns at this point.

To that end, my current count (although I need to process some recent notes that may result in some added books) is the following:

46 books in 18 weeks = 2.56 books/week.