/lit/ - Literature

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i'm also a PhD candidate, so my answer is a little skewed since in general i am paid to read, but i actually get through a decent amount.
a lot of the library is for reference: an essay here, a chapter there, etc., so its not necessarily about covering entire texts, though i do a lot of this as well.

but i also read fairly slowly, and annotate everything i cover pretty thoroughly--i prefer to really engage a text and "dig in deep" as opposed to covering quantitative ground. an average book of mine looks like pic related--my copy of being and time, which i can easily take a full week for the first 30 pages alone, where other texts--pop poli sci, for instance--i can down 1-3 whole books in a day.
it really depends on the project and the material involved.