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11742250 No.11742250 [Reply] [Original]

How many books do you guys even read in a day?

>> No.11742256

>>11742250
If you can read a book in a single day (ie airport fiction), it's generally not worth reading.

>> No.11742259

>>11742256
If you can't read most books in a day you're not trying hard enough.

>> No.11742262

>>11742256
This.
Quality before Quantity. It's about what one can take away from a book not the amount of books which count. Tacitus' annals have around 500 pages, and it will still take your at least a week to read through it, if you don't only fly through the words.

>> No.11742266
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11742266

I can read like 6 Goosebumps in a day

>> No.11742271

>>11742250
This is a good space. Where is it? Maybe .15 or so.

>> No.11742352

>>11742271
The British School at Athens.

>> No.11742369
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I typically read less than a book a day, OP. I would love to have more time to read though.

>>11742256
What utter nonsense is this? Some of the best books I've read I've read in a single day.

>> No.11742813

>>11742256
you can read one of the best 20th century proses in several hours

>> No.11743325

>>11742250
'bout three fiddy

>> No.11744314

>>11742256
Kant read a book a day on average.

>> No.11744569

>>11742266
That’s a lot of books for one day lad

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>>11742250
Every few months I am struck by a ravenous hunger for MM romance novels. This hunger lasts for about a month or two and in that time I read up to a hundred novels. These are full novels, not short stories. I then physically can't read for a few months time until the cycle repeats itself. No one knows about this. Not my husband. Not my children. No one. He thinks my strangest hobby is browsing this place. I honestly have no idea how he'd take the truth. My last ravishing was in may-june of this year. I suspect I will have one more binge before the end of 2018.

>> No.11744865

>>11744607
Raunchy

>> No.11745008

>>11744314
Kant was one in a million.

You are not a Genius like Kant, Aristotle, Newton, Leibniz, etc.

>> No.11746180

usually 8 or so

>> No.11746268

>>11746180
That's a lot of books

>> No.11746276

>>11745008
>Implying you have to be some sort of mega-genius to read a book a day

>> No.11746436

>>11746276
>Implying you haven't just been re-reading the Harry Potter series every single day for the last 10 years

>> No.11746605

>>11746436
Last time I reread the Harry Potters I read three books in one day.

It was a good day lads. Come at me.

>> No.11747064

>>11742256

You've discounted very short books from your analysis. Even when difficult, they can and perhaps should be read on-a-first-pass in a single day, in a continuum of reading, to get that good first gloss, to be supplemented by later re-readings, notes, etc.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus comes to mind.

>> No.11747236

>>11745008
>implying Newton and Leibniz were some sort of hypermen

>> No.11747239

>>11747236

They were. Get fucked.

>> No.11747655

>>11747236
Newton for all intents and purposes "invented" calculus when he was 19. You probably would complain about needing to learn it in college.

He was the ubermensch. He truly was what peak male performance looked like, you may not like it, but it's true.

>> No.11747676

>>11742266
wow that r l stine is like a machine

>> No.11748164

>>11747236
Newton was possibly the greatest mind in human history

>> No.11748251

i havent read from a book in months

>> No.11748312
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11748312

>tfw i finally understand op's question
Anywhere between 1-3 books usually. Rarely more than that.

>> No.11749657

>>11742250
Do you mean a total of 24 hours or on an average day including work, school, hobbies, etc?
I cant read an entire book on one of my average days. But in a total 24 hours I could probably read 3 maybe 4 books depending on the books

>> No.11749682

>>11745008
Chaste chads.

>> No.11749685

>>11746180
Do you ever get tired of Dr. Seuss?

>> No.11749689

>>11742259
But all my favorite books are 1000 pages.

>> No.11749700

>>11744314
Kant was a brainlet though

>> No.11749717

>>11749700
He was one of the most intelligent people to ever live.

>> No.11749970

>>11749689
I think 500 pages of small print in a day is pretty reasonable.

>> No.11750650

>>11742250
generally 3-4. 2 on a slow day. occasionally 6 if im feeling especially sharp

>> No.11750948

>>11750650
That's a lot of books lad.

>> No.11750952

>>11742250
I usually read 10 pages, or a chapter - whichever comes first - per day. I'm slow, but consistent, and still blown away by how much more I've read than 99% of people I meet

>> No.11750959

I generally read from 3 books each day. Sometimes less if I'm tired, sometimes I add a bit of nonfiction if I get bored.

>> No.11750961

>>11749689
>not even 50 pages an hour

slack

>> No.11752025

>>11745008
Kant wasn't smart he just had autism

>> No.11752075

>>11744314
I have a job Anon, his job was reading, my job is not

>> No.11752178

>>11752075
Pretty much this. If one has 8h a day additionally as a NEET one can obviously read the tribble amount of that of an even passionate reader.

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>implying people on this board actually read