/lit/ - Literature

>>5948609

Person studying to be an Electrical Engineer here.

I'm not sure if it's business or laziness, but I'm willing to do the math to find out.

By definition, to complete the task,

>100 books a year = one book every 3.65 days

Question One: how fast do I read?

The longest book I ever read in a day without skimming or missing content was the first volume of Karl Ove Knaussgard's "My Struggle", a 449 page book. This took from 11 AM to 8 PM.

I ate meals and took short breaks when needed. Let's say 1.5 hours of 9 hours of reading time were wasted. That means it took 7.5 hours to read ~450 pages.

So:

>450 pages / 7.5 hours = 60 pages per hour

So, while maintaining roughly full comprehension, I can get through 60 pages in an hour, or about a page a minute.

I wouldn't want to read 100 books in a year if I didn't have a shot at comprehending what I actually read, otherwise I'd just be a poser. So that's the rate.

How long would I need to read to clock one book?

Amazon found the median novel's ~64,000 words. I need to convert from pages to words.

>(in 6 vol.) estimated 1,000,000 words / 6 volumes = ~ 166,666 words / 7.5 hours ~ = 22,222 words / hour

Therefore:
>64,000 words / 22,222 wph ~ = 2.8 hours.

This is an interesting result because as far as I'm concerned it isn't necessarily out of my reach, and I'm taking a bullshit level of difficult STEM courses.

If you're a humanities major with spare time, you have no excuse to not be a patrician god at this point.