Have you read more than six of these books?

Sometimes, I think Facebook is merely a replacement for those chain letters that used to submerge social circles in primary school for heady weeks on end.

Currently, friends on Facebook are inviting me to identify from a list of 100 books how many I've read, and started but not finished, in reference to a damning Guardian article that said the average moron had only ever read six of these great tomes.

The thing is, I can't be bothered proving the Guardian wrong. There are a few things you should know.

1. I didn't read a book until I was approximately 13 and was required to do so for school.
2. I haven't reveled in your "classics".
3. I haven't read widely, partly since if I like a book, I tend to re-read it a billion times over instead of getting a new one.
4. Like movies, books tend not to stick with me unless I read them a billion times over.
5. In all honesty, I really prefer to look at the pictures.
   

In short, I probably wouldn't remember which few of the 100 books I'd read. I can guarantee it's more than six, but it's not 100. Most likely I'd spend hours working through the list thus:

"Thomas Hardy ... didn't he write something set in ... the country? I read that one! Was it Tess, though? Who knows? Ooh Catcher in the Rye. I've read that a billion times: *tick*. Now, Salman Rushdie. I'm sure I read The Satanic Verses when I was 14 or so, but what the fuck happened in that? All I remember is a chapter entitled Ell Ow En, Dee Ow Enn..."

And on and on.

Question: what value is the reading if there is no memory of it?

(Hint: you can substitute any transitive verb you like for "reading" in that sentence.)