I haven’t read Discworld. Although funnily enough I worked in a team where our services were named after Discworld characters, so I’m aware of _some_ lore lol.

That said.. it’s kind of daunting to start a series with so many books, and I consider myself a prolific reader (~30-40 books per year).

They are very short books, and written at about a 6-8th grade reading level. As a prolific reader you could churn through them in a year or less. It's not unusual for me to read one in a single sitting, but I am a very quick reader. Regardless, I would instead recommend savoring them a bit rather than trying to read the entire series at once and making yourself crazy.

They generally don't build on each other or require that you have read the prior books, so if you put them down for a few years and come back you won't be too lost.

I have been unemployed for a few months and there’s only so much YouTube I can take between interviews, so in my particular case the large volume of work actually served in its favor.

I needed something that would entertain me for very long periods of time, and I had bought the Discworld Humble Bundle about a year ago.

I have only finished the first eleven books, but with the exception of the first two, the books are more or less self-contained so you can read them in pretty much any order.

The problem with starting is that the very early books aren't that well written. They're funny and imaginative and great stories, but the actual text is a bit difficult. I found this out when reading them out loud to my oldest who was a bit slow to reading (fine now).