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I've recently got back in to reading and on average it takes me (depending on interest in the material) about 4/5 days to finish a ~300p. book.
Is this a normal speed?
>Book you last read and how many pages it was.
>How long it took you to finish.

The person with the quickest reading wins a free copy of The 12 Rules of Life.

>> No.12773906

>>12773872
I should probably mention that I have college in the day so I don't read all day non stop; nor do I have the attention span for that.

>> No.12773918

Perfectly normal! it takes about a week and a half for me to finish a book of that length; Firstly, I don't read daily and secondly, always for less than 2 hours really. I don't have the time. School's a cunt.

>> No.12773930

>>12773918
OP here. I only read daily because sometimes I have nothing else to do. I think it's important not to 'force' it though because that probably makes the reading less fun and more like a chore.

>> No.12774002

>>12773872
Takes me 40-50 days to finish a 300p book...

>> No.12774019

>>12774002
I usually read about an hour a day
but on some days maybe a bit more.

Apparently it takes an average of about 5 hours in total to get through a 300 page book.

>> No.12774112

The first few chapters take me much longer than the rest, usually.

>> No.12774127

>>12774002
At your rate I'd give up

>> No.12774164

>>12773872
Just read on the weekend. Last 300 pages book I finished in 1 sitting on a Saturday. Don't tell me you actually go out or something lmao

>> No.12774175

>>12774164
I just simply don't have the attention span for that lol
That's impressive

>> No.12774236

>>12774175
What else is distracting you ? Please don't say shitposting

>> No.12774262

>>12774236
It's not people distracting me its me starting to think about what else I could be doing.

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>> No.12774311

>>12774262
Why are you being ambiguous on purpose? Do you only think about other options or do you actually do them? Are they more enjoyable than reading? Then pick a different book.
Don't fall into the mentality of reading only 1 book at a time until you finish it or follow some meme chart posted around here. Just read what you like at the moment and hopefully your taste will improve over time.

>> No.12774333

>>12774311
No honestly I just have a shit attention span. The only book that I have had to slave through is the middle of the turner diaries (which everyone knows is shit). I dont read page by page I'll usually do it in about 40 page blocks.

By doing other things I mean for example going on dog walks, playing games, exercising etc.

>> No.12774341

>>12774311
>>12774333
desu though I do read one book at a time purely because it means I'm more excited for the next one and adds more of an incentive to finish the current book

>> No.12774362

>>12773872
i read pan by knut hamsun in under 3 hours. i also read the ted k manifesto in under 30 minutes. i tend to start books and never finish all the time, so i have to sit down and actually want to read, or i will never actually finish a book.

>> No.12774982

Obviously it depends on the book but I'd say I generally read 20-35 pages a day. I do have school and other hobbies but I always make sure to read every day.
>>12774002
How the fuck, please tell me that book was The Sound and the Fury or Gravity's Rainbow in an edition with tiny print or something

>> No.12774984

>>12773872
I started C&P a couple days into the month and I'm 400 pages in now. Is this bad or is everyone else just skimming hard to feel like big brained men? My reading flows oddly choppy. Sometimes I'll accidentally skip a line or read a word as something else. I also can't read over noise very well, especially people talking. This happens just infrequently enough that I don't suspect dyslexia or a similar impairment. Do I just need to read more?

>> No.12775099

>>12773872
>>Book you last read and how many pages it was.
>>How long it took you to finish.
well, I'm always reading multiple books at once, or referencing certain parts of miscellanies or whatever, but I went through about 100 pages of extremely dense prose in two hours this afternoon

>> No.12775114

>>12774984
To you and everyone else in this thread. Here's how you know if it's "bad" or not.

Take out a sheet of paper. Write down the names of the all characters in the book your reading up to the point your at. Then write down a basic outline of the plot with as much concrete detail as you can.

It's astonishing how much more and how much longer you'll be able to remember the contents of the book (yes its just plot and character but these act as "hooks" for deeper analysis) by doing this. As well as how much you'll have forgotten since you started reading the book.

Active recall is king.

>> No.12775121

>>12775114
seconding this

>> No.12775156

>>12773872
I take more than a week as I have reading OCD. It has really slowed down my reading and make it seem more like a chore. Basically my mind forces me to re-read paragraphs even if I know that I've perfectly understood what's in it.

>> No.12775167

Man it just depends :3

I read a lot of mathematical literature which requires higher than average amounts of thought. A couple of pages could take like 15 min or something.

I know tonight I’ll be going through and making amendments to my copy of The Optics book six. I actually get a little upset at A. Mark Smith because his editorial staff just decided to leave entire diagrams out of the back and many of them are incorrectly made. Otherwise, a riveting and fascinating psychological document on the effects of mirror distortion on vision

>> No.12775169

>>12773872
last book I read was Fagles's Iliad (~500 pages, took me about a week and a half but its in verse so it took less time per page than the average prose book)
Usually when I'm in school it takes me about a week and a half to two weeks to get through a 300 page book, depending on how dense it is. On breaks I can finish a lot quicker (last full book I read was Brothers K. in about three weeks)

>> No.12775352

>>12775099
You must be reading books to easy for you

>> No.12775402

>>12773872
I'm depressed so my psycho motor function only allows me to read 50pgs on most days I think 90 pages on my very best days. I have an uncomfortable home life so its impossible to read by the day and I usally read 9pm to 2am; recently its been hard to pass the 20pg marker I just been feeling like shit recently despite really liking the book im on

>> No.12775417

Depends on the book, last three were

30 days for a ~350 page book. This was 30 short stories so a different pace than usual
3 days for a ~250 page book
7 days for a ~500 page book

I generally read three books at once so these were all over the past couple of days