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How much does /lit/ read a day? Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:29:27 2017 No.10131015 [Reply] [Original]

There's so many books to read and only so much time. I want to know how often and how much you guys read to get through your backlog of books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:30:33 2017 No.10131020 20 pages a day

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:35:15 2017 No.10131040 Usually I'm reading 3-4 books at once, so I try to read a minimum of 30 pages from each (not a definite number, just a feeling I get after having read for a while) before I move on to something else in my day or pick up one of the other books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:35:39 2017 No.10131042 >>10131015 For about 1-2 hours a day. Weekend i read about 3-6 h/day

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:36:03 2017 No.10131043 >>10131020 and much time does that take you? half an hour? Normally for me, it can take 30 to 60 minutes to read 20 pages.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:37:28 2017 No.10131048 >>10131040 so it sounds like u read about 100 pages a day then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:38:46 2017 No.10131052 >>10131048 Around there, hopefully more yeah

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:44:03 2017 No.10131073 50-100 pages a day. Sometimes more or less depending on my schedule.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:46:03 2017 No.10131079 What are your guys'' life if u can read up to a 100 pages a day?!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:50:00 2017 No.10131095 >>10131079 Unemployed applying to grad programs

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:54:48 2017 No.10131115

I always set aside an hour in the morning for reading and an hour at night. Typically I'll knock out 30-40 pages a day, though lately I've replaced my morning hour-read with bike rides due to the amazing weather where I live. Fitlit is the patrician life

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 13:54:51 2017 No.10131116 >>10131043 Normally an hour, but I usually use a pencil to underline words so I probably could read a little faste without it

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 14:14:51 2017 No.10131199 Currently not working I read 80 pages today and when i used to come home from work i was too tired to pock up a book

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 14:15:48 2017 No.10131203 >>10131095 Good luck pal, what areas?

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 14:17:31 2017 No.10131209
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>>10131199
This is a big issue. I try and squeeze in some reading in the morning or on transport because a lot of the time come the evening I'm too tired to read anything which requires much brainpower. Sometimes read short stories before bed. I try and exercise in the evenings too which eats into time

Its so frustrating looking back to when I had more free time and I wasted so much of it. Could've covered loads

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 15:02:22 2017 No.10131408

>>10131015
I want to make a change so I've recently committed to 40 pages a day consisting of two 20 page sittings.
Of course the time it takes all depends on material. I wouldn't be able to get through 20 pages of Neitzche in the same time I do Bronte.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 15:06:07 2017 No.10131422 File: 29 KB, 640x480, ...jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 200-350 pages a day I have no friends and no life anymore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 15:13:54 2017 No.10131442 File: 661 KB, 2048x1536, St.JohnsCollege2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 100 to 200 a day depending on the seminar reading and other classes. Still find plenty of time for Off Program stuff tho.

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 16:39:47 2017 No.10131715

>>10131203
Thanks my dude. Linguistics, Hispanic programs, an MFA here or there, Urban Design.

Kinda shooting for pedigree at this point, seeing if I can make an Ivy or a second-tier cause then it seems to really not fucking matter what you study if you then get that professional network and a gilded name on your resume. We'll see!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 16:41:42 2017 No.10131722 >>10131115 "fitlit is the patrician life" Tru as fuck. Meditating first thing in the morning, going to the gym, then showering and reading for hours with a relaxed mind and body is the fucking life. >>10131442 My niqqa, what year are you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 16:43:26 2017 No.10131727 >>10131043 >>10131116 This makes me feel better, I'm around that pace and thought I was a horribly slow reader

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 16:44:53 2017 No.10131733 Work full time, read at least 200 pages a day, and read at least two books over the weekend. Get on my level

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 16:50:37 2017 No.10131753

>>10131015
50 pages a day bare minimum at about a minute per page for most books. This gets me through any book that isn't a notorious doorstopper in a week or so, which is a pace I feel pretty good about since that's about how long it was expected to read through the short-to-average length works studied in my college English classes.

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:31:53 2017 No.10131916

>>10131015
One year I read nearly 4000 books, but I fucked up and fell asleep after fapping one too many times and missed the mark by 13 books. Fuck that year.

Now I read ~2 pages/day. Too devastated by such retarded failure to do more, plus now I work up to 16h days.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:34:31 2017 No.10131924 Full time employed, gf and other hobbies like vidya or tv shows. I still find an hour a day to read 40/50 pages. What is your excuse?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:36:25 2017 No.10131929 >>10131015 the least, none. the least when i plan to read? maybe like 2 pages. at most, ive read maybe 200 on vacation. today i read maybe 15-20 pages at work when i had free time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:38:53 2017 No.10131938 i read 300 pages of the goblet of fire in the bathtub when i was a kid

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:41:33 2017 No.10131952 >>10131727 I'm in the same boat, feels not so bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 17:48:38 2017 No.10131981 >>10131116 why do you underline words, like for what purpose?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 18:00:32 2017 No.10132021 >>10131722 Sophomore. Are you Ben

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 18:03:46 2017 No.10132036 >>10132021 No, just familiar with the undergrad program and wanted to know what you were reading

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 18:14:42 2017 No.10132079 >>10132036 Reading Plutarch's lives. Caesar and Cato. Pretty fucking cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 18:27:17 2017 No.10132139 >>10131952 Thank God I'm not the only one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 22:20:24 2017 No.10132884 >>10131722 >Meditating first thing in the morning, going to the gym, then showering and reading for hours with a relaxed mind and body is the fucking life. Hell yeah it is man, and that right there sounds comfy as all hell

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 23:25:51 2017 No.10133077

I am dyslexic and I get dizzy reading so unless I am really engaged so I usually find and adudibook to supplement my reading. Usually listen to some audio-book for an hour at least while walking around and doing boring shit. A 300 page book is usually around 6 to 8 hours.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 23:34:10 2017 No.10133098 >>10131015 Usually about 0 pages per day. Sometimes less if I'm lucky.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 23:46:19 2017 No.10133130 File: 192 KB, 800x567, Evola DeTurris.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10132021 I know some guy named Ben who would browse this bored, :?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 00:43:06 2017 No.10133252 >>10131442 O I used to go here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 01:23:45 2017 No.10133352 >>10131079 Anyone that has two hours of free time can read 100 pages a day, and if you don't have those, you fucked up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 01:27:19 2017 No.10133360 >>10131079 I'm sure that Warren Buffet is a busy man, and he reads 500 pages a day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 07:36:10 2017 No.10134119 300 pages minimum

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 08:03:22 2017 No.10134184 >>10131422 The next step is to be a a writer. Leave humanity behind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 08:49:59 2017 No.10134293 >>10131981 Not that anon, but I like to highlight passages, sentences, and words that I think would be worth my attention during a second reading. Whether it's just something I find funny, interesting, or something new I've learned.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 09:06:04 2017 No.10134326 >>10131015 Why the fuck do you care? Quit posting and fucking read!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:53:25 2017 No.10135210 >>10134326 lol nerd

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:58:12 2017 No.10135219 >>10131015 2/3rds of my days are spent working and sleeping. I'm lucky to get 20 pages in if I'm not too mentally exhausted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 14:59:23 2017 No.10135222 >>10131015 500 pages in between engineering homework. Hard to get my deadlifts in there too but usually my gf motivates me if you know what I mean

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 15:01:15 2017 No.10135226 >>10131722 What does meditating involve? For some people it's the eastern style, for others it's quietly sipping on coffee

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 16:57:07 2017 No.10135627 >>10131924 >Vidya and tv shows >"hobbies" lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 17:17:42 2017 No.10135694 150 today

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 18:04:07 2017 No.10135839 Too exhausted to read of my own volition most of the time, read 20-50 pages a day for uni or more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 21:57:14 2017 No.10136680 >>10135694 What book are you reading?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 22:06:37 2017 No.10136706 >>10136680 Harry Potter

Anonymous Wed Oct 11 22:16:54 2017 No.10136743

I think it's a good idea to adjust whatever goal you have in regard to pages. Trying to read 100 pages a day with a book that contains difficult content isn't a realistic goal, especially if you want to fully understand what you are reading. Obviously this is all individual, as everyone is different depending on their skill level, but it is good to have fluid goals depending on what you are reading and your schedule.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 22:22:54 2017 No.10136764 >>10131924 >watching TV is a hobby

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 01:59:54 2017 No.10137304 >>10136706 Is that tough?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 02:17:46 2017 No.10137351 >>10131727 Me too. That's about as long as it takes for me to read philosophy, and I heard it can be pretty tough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 02:36:22 2017 No.10137384 Novels: Serious stuff 75-100 pages a day Lighter fare 150+ Poetry: Depends. Sometimes I breeze through a book, others I spend hours reading and rereading one or two poems.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 02:51:13 2017 No.10137414 >>10136680 Not harry potter Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 06:48:43 2017 No.10137915 >>10131079 NEET

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 06:54:34 2017 No.10137924 File: 481 KB, 790x720, luffy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10131015 >least pages a day: 0 >most pages a day: 350 >average pages a day: 175

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