/lit/ - Literature

>>19769444
if you take a bus or a train home, read. before you go to sleep, read. even if its 5 pages a day. that's what i do.

>>19769444
depends. lotta mfers read while they commute on public transport. i think thats kinda gay and inviting you to get buttraped by a gang of niggers. you could try to read during your lunch, assuming you don't work while you eat. or just read after you get into bed and until you're too sleepy to keep going. if its too good of a book to stop then you'll find time for it.

I don't have a long commute, I get home at 6 usually
That leaves 4 hours to read

Too slowly.

>>19769444
WFH job where I "work" like 3 hours a day most days. Also I have no friends or gf so lots of free reading time.

>>19769444
Bought a kindle and pretty much only read short stories now. There's always time for at least one story throughout the day.

>>19769444
I work 40h a week. I wake up at 5am read for an hour or two after breakfast (short story/essay and one poem) and then an hour at lunch (novels, non-fiction) and then an hour at home and then I write.
I meal prep almost everything I eat one day out of the week and try to minimize as much hands on time in the kitchen as possible, reading while a slow-cooker or oven is going. My commute is 5 minutes though, if it was longer I'd try audio books but I really like to make margin notes. Time management really comes down to priorities, you have way more time than you think if you start to kick out useless activities, hurry them up or do things in parallel.

>>19769444
read 10 pages of books for every 1 hour you spent on 4chan

>>19769444

It's easy when you only work 40 hours a week instead of some shitty 50-60+ hrs/wk grind, which is the point when it really starts to negatively impact your personal life in the sense of not being able to get anything fun done (I speak from experience). Also not having any other serious obligations in life helps, basically maximally clears the board for your hobbies (the things that actually matter in life) apart from subsistence/daily chores.

>>19769444
I drink a bunch of water and some fruit to get my second wind of the day then set 25mins to read.

>>19769444
I usually work from 9 or 10 to 6. I go to sleep at midnight and get up at 7, that gives me 17 hours of time every day. I generally read 30 minutes before work, when i get home I eat dinner and usually work on music for an hour, sometimes two. After that i read until midnight. It’s that simple, just make the time to do it and don’t waste time on bullshit

>>19769444
I work in a woodshop with a lot of loud machines and hearing protection is required. Everyone wears earbuds or headphones, so I listen to audiobooks all day. Focus isn't a problem because I'm usually doing menial labor and listening to them multiple times. I've gotten through an insane amount of literature this way. I used to just pirate them but the selection is poor and it's too much effort for me now, so I shell out to Audible. Charlton Griffin is my go-to narrator.

>>19769980
>you have way more time than you think if you start to kick out useless activities
>>19770645

The real answer

>>19769444
Read for pleasure not study

>>19770928
ngmi

>>19769444
top to bottom, left to right. adderall.

audio books during your commute

if you read, you know work is for suckers.

>>19769444
weekends nigga
or just wake up earlier

>>19769465
>if you take a bus or a train home
What if I don't want to get murderered.

i wfh but wake and bake cuts into my read time

>>19769444
I find reading on the train to be much easier than reading in a quiet setting, it is probs autism or some shit regardless train reading is the shit

>>19771238
You should have stopped smoking weed after highschool. Weed is for kids

>>19771342
pretty good substitute between shroom trips

>>19771093
Stop living in america

>>19770809
Same here, hearing protectiojnrequired at work (caterpillar) so I got some noise canceling earbuds and I listen to pod casts and audio books all day, 5 days a week 365

>>19769444
I read in the morning before work, on breaks/lunch at work and before bed. On weekends I sometimes put in some serious reading time if the mood strikes but generally just read for a bit in the morning and before bed. Pretty easy to get an hour or two of reading in every day.

>>19771093
Then you should take a bus/train, most murders are car-related
Also don't live in a city with niggurz

>>19769444
Set your alarm clock half an hour early and spend 30min reading before you breakfast/get ready for work.
And when you get home do NOT turn that TV on.

>>19769444
You don't you just realise that it is 30 minutes max before bed even though you are probably too exhausted and would only get 2 pages in.
Or you realise a world of philosophy and mental growth and expanding horizons that your English teacher told you that awaited you was a lie.
Because they only ever went to school then went to university (big school) and then went back to school again.
So they don't know how the world works and it does not work on the pleasures of the intellect or the through the power of human imagination.
That is your fate.

>>19772813
>And when you get home do NOT turn that TV on.
Better advice is do not turn your computer / /lit/ on. Who the fuck watches TV or even netflix in 2022.

I work in a whiskey packing factory.

It’s extremely chill. I put my a small discreet earphone in while I work, so some days I get literally hours of listening time in. I can easily finish a short novella in two days or so by doing this. I also listen on my walk to and from work, and I usually read for at least an hour at home, several on weekends.

eat premade cold meals (sandwiches) so you can read on your lunch break, idk.

>>19772861
but all the construction chads make fun of me when i pull out my Star Wars books in the breakroom

Also daily reminder that if you have time to post on /lit/ you have time to read.

>>19772877
not with all the time i spend reading posts on /lit/

Stop living in the US its not made for humans

>>19770935
enjoy your copious deathbed regrets

>>19770928
>Read for pleasure not study

>>19773024
Final thoughts regarding reading before dying:

>I'm so happy and proud I read all of those James Joyce and Harry Potter books. I feel so fulfilled and content consooming these made-up stories.

>I'm so happy I studied the western philosophical canyon to gain an understanding of human inquiry into life's most complicated and wonderous questions developed, and by studying these systems found my own system that has brought me solace, but also a greater understanding of life. I am so grateful to have partaken in the reasoning of the greatest minds to have roamed this earth and am content with my efforts to understand my own role in life.

choose one.

>>19773096
>>I'm so happy I studied the western philosophical canyon to gain an understanding of human inquiry into life's most complicated and wonderous questions developed, and by studying these systems found my own system that has brought me solace, but also a greater understanding of life. I am so grateful to have partaken in the reasoning of the greatest minds to have roamed this earth and am content with my efforts to understand my own role in life.
>thinks that this, not nihilism, is the inevitable result of lifelong study

>>19769444
I read on the train, during my breaks and at home.

>>19773096
Holy cringes Batman!

>>19773137
Reminder that if you care this much about cringe you're nothing but a smug slave.

>>19773114
Studying a lot results in nihilism, but with lifelong inquiry, you overcome it and find God.

>>19773096
speaking as a philosophy student, reading "the canon" is really not worth it. find what interests you and read that
fiction is more worth your time desu

>>19769444
never in history were we expected to spend 8 hours a day 5 days a week nonstop laboring while a manager leans over our shoulder ensuring we're working every second of it. and after lunch (now unpaid) and commute it's more like 11 hours a day. plus getting ready for work and unwinding after.

wfh is the closest i can get to life balance.

>>19770677
as an accountingfag my career was majorly shafted because i was unwilling to join the /grind/ of big4/public where they work you 80 hours a fucking week until you have a mental breakdown and quit (so they dont need to promote you). american work culture is sick and disgusting. all of europe works 35 hours a week and has 5+ weeks paid vacation. i work 40+ and get 0 vacation. the only "vacations" i can take are when i quit a job. this country is a shithole.

>>19769444
Just read faggot

>>19773114
> implying Anon posting the goodfellas reaction image knows a single thing about lifelong study

>>19769444
What are you doing in life that you cant find at least 30 minutes to read every day? I refuse to believe that whatever you're doing can be that important or time consuming. Before work, on bus, lunch break, after dinner, before bed, Friday nights and weekends. If you waste your life and time gaming that's on you.

>>19773225
oh shit, this guy is a philosophy student. guess I should listen to this expert.

>>19773799
Europe's living standard is entirely built on the top of American wageslavery in the financial and military sectors
I really hope Ivan buttrapes all of them soon

>>19774048
this is true that we do subsidize most of europe since they leech off our military to defend their asses. maybe russia is based.

>>19773799
38 hours in europe is the standard but yeah basically

>>19769465
Too many niggers here in sweden on public transport. I have to be vigilant pretty much all the time.

>>19774111
now you understand why americans obsess over guns.

>>19769444
You fucking kidding? You literally have no time other than when you're working? If you do, read then. This really isn't that hard.

>>19772834
Believe me, if you had a full time job you'd probably hear colleagues prattling on about Netflix 99% of the fucking time

>>19773096
Well that's just fedorable

>>19771087
>wasting weekends on reading

I get up half an hour earlier than necessary and use that time for reading. I also finish all necessary after work tasks by 7pm so I can read a few hours before bed. I often get more reading done while working 40 hours a week than I did while I was a structureless neet.

Stop working fulltime

>>19773799
We gotta move these color TVs

>>19769516
how do you find short stories?

>>19777421
I find the author first usually. Then I go to zlibrary and download whatever collection I can find. Currently I'm reading a J.G Ballard complete stories collection and it's very good.

>>19769444
Read during full-time employment. What the fuck do you do that keeps you busy for eight straight hours? Get a desk job, you blue-collar prole fuck!
>t. hasn't read a full book in months because too busy reading manga online at work

>>19774111
What? I thought you were progressive and nice. Learn to get along with people, Anon.

>That feel when you can get along with people from all backgrounds

>>19774111
Proof?

>>19772834
>>19774694
>>19772813
Better advise in the case of the average 4channer would be to limit time spent here on the boards, most 4channers pirate or only watch netflix because of some random celeb they simp for

>>19773096
I'd rather have sex.

>>19770935
Make it where?

>>19771093
>>19774111
Lol you guys are such pussies

>>19769444
6 hours sleep
8 hours work
30 minute commute to work
30 minutes back.

That's 15 hours.
Add say 3 for eating, showers etc.
18 hours.
That leaves 6 hours a day.
An hour for reading, 2-3 hours for a film, an hour for a new album and an hour for writing.

Learn to use your time hippy.

>>19769444
Stop using your free time to browse 4chan.

>>19769484
based this is also me, i just read and watch kinos

>>19771093
>>19774111
Fucking sheltered kids.

>>19773799
Where do you account friend?

I am working at a holding company for a large corporation in Canada and it's pretty chill (year end kinda sucks). I completely avoided big4 as well because I'm not a cuck.

Find yourself a good team and things get a lotttttt better.

Or find a big corp with older systems and do their corporate tax, you'll spend 8 months a year doing absolutely fucking nothing

>>19769444
>Find a book
>Open it
>Read it.

>>19769476
Kill yourself, fat jannie cunt

I started reading lots of different novels back in junior high. I buy it, read it, enjoy it, even re-read it often when I don't have anything better to do. Life was a bit simpler, i don't play games or give a shit about internet that much

Fast forward, now I'm a busy 20 year old compsci student. Kinda bit overstimulated with the internet and devices, so I'm starting to buy random books again hoping that it will cure my "ADHD" somewhat. Sadly I don't know what's wrong with me but there have been some bad habis that happens when I read it.
- if i don't like the first few pages, I get very disappointed that I'm willing to throw it to the trashbin even though I spent money for it. There are like 2-3 books that fell victim to my autism.
- if i enjoyed the first few pages, my mind instantly wanders to something else. Should I take a picture of this page? Should I take notes of it? Should i share it on my socials? The fuck should I do?

I read thousands of random articles / journals on the daily with my phone / laptop and I know how to deal with it, if it's helpful then I'll bookmark it then take some notes of it to my Evernote. But the fuck should I do when I enjoyed a physical book? Should I take notes of it as well? Why does this starts to sound like a lot of work? Like I'm doing a thesis? When do i finally get to enjoy myself without worrying anything? Am I being a fool for only capturing the feeling in my brain and heart and not write it somewhere? What the fuck am I reading in the first place?

I already don't have much free time already to read a goddamn book. For fuck sake. I've stopped playing video games, even the single player ones. I don't watch shows, movies or series. Yet I can comfortably waste my time on this site watching people talk about the stuff they like.

I'm sorry /lit/, sorry for being a total wreck of mess.

>>19773096
this was so cringe I'm ashamed to read anything at all anymore
Bro my eyes popped out at how cringe this was
Don't post anything ever again

6am - wake, breakfast, shower, dress etc
7-8.30 - read
8.30 - go to work
6pm - get home, exercise, make dinner, wash up, internet/tv/whatever
8-10 read
10pm sleep

that's a normal workday for me, obviously sometimes I do other stuff in the evenings or sleep in but normally that's three hours reading a day, sometimes a bit more if I read on my lunch break

>>19773225
>philosophy student
opinion discarded

Becoming communist after reading this thread, work is unironically slavery

Lunch breaks or rides home is when I can read. Or depending on the situation. I can't stop at work, but I can read a pair of chapters before I can get to my shift.

Plus waiting in line at most groceries stores, though nowadays, they are much faster.

>>19787226

>>19773096
Not gonna lie both are cringe m8

>>19770809
any recommendation?

>>19769444
I work from home and get up at 8:40am, and work from 9 to 6 and shower during my lunch. I read and do fuck all until I go to bed at 1:30.

>>19769516
>Bought a kindle
Faggot detected lol