Like sunspot and hapgood, it never occured to me for a second to ever "fudge" my report.
I was totally astonished while on this site to discover many were just making up time and / or finding really creative ways to "count time". Perhaps astonished is not the best word.
I was flabbergasted. Here I was, all this time being totally honest, while others were fudging the numbers, perhaps doctoring the reports to the point where their "diligence to the preaching work" made them candidates for promotion to MS or eldership. All the while, old dumb dave here toiled along with my 3 - 5 hours per month, and paying for my literature twice, and feeling inadequate and "spititually weak".
With regards to the literature. I would say the hard cover fiction novels are rarely discarded, because of their "perceived" value.
My guess is only 10% of the weekly rags remains in anyone's hands for long. And they will eventually find their way to the trash heap. Really who keeps their W&A magazines for ever? So you could say that fully 99% of the W&A magazines end up in landfill.
That would make the WTBTS one of the largest corporate polluters in all the world. ( I doubt many jw's recycle unless forced to.). Does the WTBTS itself recycle? Does it use recycled paper, and natural inks at it's factories? And each week how many trees are destroyed to print a magazine that has no more intrinsic value than a roll of toilet paper?
Oh that's right JW's don't have to care about the planet. Big J guy, and his little j sidekick, are going to clean all that up after that "Scorched Earth" plan they're waiting to unleash on us poor unsuspecting non JW's.