/lit/ - Literature

>>11721231
Dude can some of your brain trickle down unto me?

>Read 4.5 books so far this year
Aww yeah baby

>>11721231
ew, reading is cringe desu

>>11721231
Comic books don't count desu senpai baka

>>11721231
p good

Next year I'm hoping to do 52 books, one book a week

I say that every year though. This year I'll be lucky to hit 35

>read 50,000 4chan posts this year
Hell yeah

>>11721231
I have read like 50 but hated half of them and only finished them to feel cool and now I just feel stupid

Just managed to get my books read this year above the total weeks in the year so far. Feels pretty neat

>finished ~20, started more than double that

>>11721231
i think ive read 10 this year, all excellent, worth my time and i will be rereading some of them over winter break

I've read a wikipedia article today.

>>11721328
Adaboy! What was it?

People count how many books they’ve read? Let alone have a ”schedule” (i.e one book a week)
YIKES

>only 14 so far

22 if I count audiobooks

>>11721335
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse
I like horses :)

>>11721368
I'm a zoo too, desu. You don't have to tell me about horses ;)

>>11721339
Can you not simply gaze upon your shelf and count?

I managed to read 9 (nein) books so far :^)

>>11721397
Not all of us buy books anon, some of us loan them

>>11721231
Did you shag as many girls?

>>11721520
>girls
Girls can't reveal the philosophy of two-thousand-year-old Greeks, anon

>>11721254
same, but probably my money will end and i'll be left without books to read during the week

>>11721231
Ayyy me too. But this screen is like a month old or so

>read 23 books this year
feels bad

>>11721522
Of course they can, only not by talking

>>11721231
I'd read like 60 books this year check the timestamp

>>11721522
In that case I meant little boys, did you stem as many adolescent roses this year?

>>11721677
>1 page

>bought more than 30 books by parents money
>only finished 1-2 book
Someday I'll crack my NEET dome by my own hands.

>>11721363
So, only 14.

>>11721231
I'm up to 18 I think, but many of them have been < 150p, like:

>The invention of Morel
>Pedro Paramo
>A dog's heart
>Invisible cities
>Fictions
>Death of Ivan Iljitjs
etc.

Trying not to force myself to read just for the sake of reading though, I really only want to read when I actually feel like reading.

>tfw only 6500 pages read

Planning to read like 10 books in the next two weeks.

Other than that, I would assume I have read 15 or so.

>still not finished with 1,2k pages book that I started in March

>tfw might actually make it this time

Remember capsguy, he read like 1000 books each year.

>>11721531
>Joseph and his brothers
Is it any good?

>have intense desire to read during work
>read during break, and during commute
>get back home
>drown in vidya/porn/shitposting
Internet was a mistake

>read 25 pages so far this year
Feels good man

43 so far. Will probably hit at least 50 by the end of the year.

I've read 10, I think. Would've been more if The Recognitions wasn't so long

>>11721231
>only read read 28 books so far this year
Feels mediocre man

>>11721231
>september
>only read 25 books

>books read: 60
>cryptos invested: 0
>gym visits: 0
>cooked food: 0
>times fapped: 60
Hmm, I humbly request help brothers

127 master race reporting (not bait or ironic)

>>11721231
I think I've read like 6, but I'm reading HUGE books so I don't feel like I'm lackin'

>>11722773
Good for you, friend.

>Read 45 books so far this year.
>Boomer bf has read maybe 8

>>11721695
>not reading one page books

22 books for me but some of them have been sprawling mathematics or economics works

>>11722786
>the Zoomer breadth vs the Boomer depth

>>11722786
leave this place, faggot/roastie

>>11722769
do you honestly absorb and appreciate what youre reading at this point? how does someone even read this many books

It doesn't matter how many books, all that matters is word count.

>>11722885
How's your word count, Anon?

>>11722890
I never counted!

>>11722897
Estimate it.

>>11721397
>reading all the books you buy

What do you do when you finish a book? Wait until you gave time to go to a bookshop again?

>>11722899
We're counting from the start of the year right? I've actually haven't read at all for a very long time and only recently in the last year began really getting into it.
Using this site https://www.readinglength.com/ I get an estimation of a total of 1,100,000, more or less.

10 books.

>>11722865
I am>>11721677
And I write treatises with the notes I take while reading so yeah I process all that I read pretty well.

>>11722944
Those are some fairly long books you seem to prefer, Anon.

>56 books so far
>still 3 months left
>>11722207
Not sure if real. I mean, unless he's a NEET with no other hobbies at all.

>>11722207
>he read like 1000 books each year
that's more than 2.5 books per day, either he is reading booklets or "speed-reading" aka not reading at all

>>11721296
you should feel stupid

>>11721231
Do you read whilst smoking weed? Normally I didn't, but now that my idiot bingeing ass is on it for about a month or so it starts getting easier.

>>11722885
No Word count or Book count
Page count is the real dead

>>11723345
I require weed to function but don't read when I'm too high. Tolerance helps a lot. I guess I use it as a general panacea and anti-insomniac. A few puffs and a few chapters is nice tho. Preferred drug for reading is to take my kindle outside and smoke a cigarette while reading on my porch.

>>11723324
If the guy does not work or do anything else than reading

Let's say he dedicates 8 hours a day to reading
2 hours in the morning
2 hours after lunch
2 hours in the evening
2 hours before sleeping

Let's assume an above average reading speed (the result of such intensive practice)
of 500 wpm

A typical 12 point font page will have 300 words on a single page of a smaller book (non hardcover)

Let's assume the average number of pages in the books he reads are 200 pages

Giving us 60.000 words per book

Now the guy reads at 500 wpm, so he reads 30.000 words per hour, or 100 pages per hour

In theory he could read a book every 2 hours

He reads 8 hours a day, so it's doable, he may read longer books than 200 pages that would bring down his average to 2.5 books a day.

>>11721531
>>11721677
I want to know that website. I want to have the statistic to show my e-peen o ff

>>11723455
That's goodreads

>>11723451
>Let's assume the average number of pages in the books he reads are 200 pages
so booklets as i said

I've read 26 books so far this year, which just so happens to be the exact number of books I read last year. And what's even better is that most of the books I read last year were 100-200 pages long, wheras many of the books I read now are 400+ pages long.

Recovering from depression does wonders for your reading habits.

>>11723345
>>11723438
I'm a poor NEET with no friends and I don't know a dealer so I only get to smoke once every couple of months, sometimes not even that. I'd want nothing more than to be able to smoke every day, there's really nothing I love more than smoking weed and listening to music or walking in nature or reading. But yes I do enjoy reading while high, though not too high. One to three puffs (depending on quality) is perfect, gives me more immersion and imagination and comfiness without making me lose focus. Can't wait until the next time I can smoke and read some weird fiction and Wolfe's the Wizard Knight

>>11723499
>>11723438
Weed is legal where I am, so I can get it wherever whenever, which isn't pleasant if you're trying to kick it.
Anyhow, I read the entirety of War of the World pretty blasted out of my mind, and that was very pleasurable albeit a little more tiring than usual.

>>11723515
>a little more tiring than usual
For me it's more exhausting not only because it's slightly difficult to sit still and maintain that focus, but also because the feeling I get from reading is more intense, I experience the text much more intensely. I have to try reading while taking a walk along the river next time

>>11721231
Read 4 books. Bible took me more than 5 months.

>>11723545
Was it worth it? How much of it do you really even remember?

>>11721231
>read 8 books this year

One of them was moby dick tho.

>>11723824
None of it

>>11723929
oh, really? bummer

>>11723824
>>11723929
>>11723936

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

>>11723959
I'm not sure that really applies here. The Bible is mainly read on /lit/ for the sake of understanding cultural references.

ayyy lmao i almost hit my goal of reading through 25 books this year!

>not rereading books at least twice to understand them better and remember what you've read
brainlet

>>11724038
>reading books three times
Are you actually retarded?

>>11724038
>not taking a break between each re-reading
>not reading other books to enrich your insight when revisiting
>not writing a summary/commentary/review after each reading and then comparing your previous commentaries
step it up

>>11724071
You do understand a book better after a second reading though, it is true.

>>11724076
I wasn't disagreeing. Did you reply to the wrong post?

>>11724079
I wasn’t either :)

>>11724064
>not knowing the difference between two and three
>Are you actually retarded?
kek

>>11724084
He said to re-read it twice, implying two more times after the first read

A gentleman’s re-read is all that’s necessary for most books

>>11724086
>>11724084
Ouch, btfo

>>11723479
>Recovering from depression
What are your secrets

Re-reading is a pointless endeavour when you could be devouring wholely and scrumptiously fresh books.

i read 1 (one) book the entire summer

>read 13 so far
>only understood the half that isn't philosophy
Being a brainlet is suffering.

>>11726013
Who cares about understanding? Now you can brag about reading the book

>>11722777
Brotherly trips

>>11722255
It's the greatest novel I've ever read

what the fuck
it's fucking september

>>11723824
A lot. Especially Bible.

>>11723929
Go fuck yourself.

>>11722256
Cut the internet. Type your ip into your browser and deactivate internet from your devices for certain periods of time. It should force you to not indulge in internet too much. For school i unplug my pc permanently and block internet access for a few hrs a day.

>>11722768
Invest your money in NKN and thank me in a few months. Get on the 5/3/1 program and do not miss going to the gym once. You will cook your meals to ensure you get all the goodies. I can't help for fapping, i'm worse than you.

>I have read 17 books so far this year
Tell me that I'm pretty . . .

>>11727937
You're pretty

>tfw i haven't even finished How To Eat Fried Worms yet and I started it back in February

>>11721231
How can you people read so fucking fast? It takes me a month just to finish a booklet. Then again, I guess writing and vidya may be the reason...

>>11728598
60 pages a day. That's it. It's that easy.

>>11729001
I can barely 20. 40 if I am in good mood.

>>11723460
but how do you do that nifty infographic ?

>>11729026
That's because you don't actually care about reading nevermind finishing a book. The more you read per day the faster and more cohesively the narrative can be assimilated to your memory thus improving the experience of reading and increasing the desire to read other things even more.

>>11728598
Flip through the pages without concern for comprehension, like people here do.

>>11729066
Do you really believe no one can read for more than 30 minutes a day without their comprehension suffering?

>>11721525
>paying for books in 2018

>>11724081
>>11724079
>>11724076
>>11724071
>>11724064
>>11724038
I have autism too. Syntopic reading is nice.

>>11721231
>finished one(1) book this year so far

>>11729085
Yes?

>>11729137

>>11724038
I just read each word twice on my first time through the book

>>11729456
Now THIS is HECKING EPIC

>set goodreads book goal to 23 books because I actually have a career
>read 25, working my way to 27
feels good man. Pounded out 9 of those during the summer break