/lit/ - Literature

5 if you're fast.
15 tops.

Obviously not talking philosophical or scientific works here.

It takes me around 5

300 pages would take me like 7-8 conservatively.

>>6152273
6 pages per minute is my speed for predictable things you don't read for amusement. A good book may take weeks. I revel for days in scenes I enjoy, subvocalizing them over and over and comparing it all of the previous passages.

>>6152350

you're full of shit, kek
that's around 1800 WPM
very likely an impossible pace for retention of any kind

>>6152360
Naw, I timed myself reading harry potter once and I was at 12 seconds per page, so someone reading 1 page per 10 seconds seems pretty reasonable

>>6152386

you are skimming, not reading
just stop, you're not impressing anyone by glossing over hundreds of words per second and not remembering a single thing

>>6152394
yeah you sure got me, I'm trying to impress anon by being anon

I read about 120 w/p/m if it's a light book, so I guess 20 hrs?

>>6152411

reading 30 words a second is certainly trying to impress someone
it's also not really possible unless you're skimming

>>6152419
not him but can confirm: We're not talking about reading joyce here but reading what you HAVE to read (unless you picked the wrong course and now HAVE to read Joyce). Skimming is significantly faster.

>>6152419
You know if you spent 5 seconds googling speed readers you'd see 1,800 WPM isn't even approaching remarkable levels

>>6152448

speed-reading and skimming are not the same thing as reading
retention and immersion are actually important, kids

I just got 649 WPM, is that fast?

>>6152466
goml

>>6152484
Please bitch I got 45,515

>mfw I read slower than an 8th grader
>mfw I didn't do this bad on purpose

>>6152295
This. Reading fiction can be done quickly, even by women.

>>6152273

a minute a page is 300 minutes so 5ish hours.

>>6152273

I don't know how you pull a page a minute. I can do 40pgs max an hour.

the average person could probably read a book in 8 hours, i'd say, though rarely ever in a single sitting

i spend so much time re-reading and thinking of other things and reflecting. when writing, i use books mostly to fuel my creativity, stopping off and hopping back on when i write something down or get inspiration

i think 12 hours maximum is a good amount

Who cares?

Number of pages is not a good indication. Word count is, but that's rarely readily available.

For example, reading the entirety of Crime and Punishment took me several days, probably a total of around eight hours. I'm not a particularly slow reader, but the text is fairly dense in detail and can be disorienting - the same is true of, say, American Psycho.

Meanwhile a book with the same page number, like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, took me about four hours in total when I was in elementary school.

Tl;Dr it's all up to the density of the text and your own speed as a reader.

>>6152704
i was reading latin poetry in elementary school

>>6152295
Yep. Just using hour long lunch breaks it really should not take more than two or three weeks with 300 pages. If it does find a book you like better.