That's why I figure a few hundred years would be a good compromise. I mean, there are well over half a million books published each year, so at a book a week it would take me 1000 years to read one year's output. Plus I'd like to write a few hundred. I'd also like to master the piano and the drums, learn to paint worth a damn, travel extensively and meet lots of people, finally attain my pilot's license, maybe go back to college. Maybe even have a kid or two, if I knew it wasn't going to take up my whole lifetime.
So I don't know, I'd rather decide for myself when I was bored enough to pull the plug.
most books will look the same. I experience this even today after having read some books. most people repeat themselves because really, there is not much one can come up with other than mostly repeating what others have said before him.