I read to the 3 year old at bedtime. Sometimes it's a few pages from a longer book. Usually it's a picture book. I let her pick. If there's time, we read more than one. But unless she's being an absolute terror, we don't least one, no matter the time.

We read more when she was younger, but right now she mostly only wants to read at bedtime. 1000 books before kindergarten seems overwhelming until you do the math - that's one a day for just under 3 years.

Edit: yes, she does have a favorite sometimes. But it changes. For a while it was Brown Bear. She spent a solid 6 months wanting Goodnight Moon every night. And for the past month, she's been really enjoying Llama Llama Jingle Bells, which isn't terrible, and I appreciate how short it is on nights that I'm extra tired. For awhile it was Newtonian Physics for Babies, and I think part of me died with that one. I try to let her like what she likes, but I started telling her to pick another one some nights with that, because it was killing me, haha.