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[Anonymous No.18338406]

Apparently everyone is reading 60-100 pages an hour. What the fuck? How do I read faster? I can only do 20-30.

[Anonymous No.18338407]

>>18338406
Quit your job/drop out of college

[Anonymous No.18338421]

it depends
a) on what you're reading. 60 pages of dense philosophy is going to take longer than 60 pages of lucidly written fiction
b) print / page size

but also we're all smarter than you

[Anonymous No.18338471]

>>18338406
It doesn’t matter man, don’t turn reading into some kind of consumerism. The only way to improve your reading is to read more

[Anonymous No.18338483]

>>18338406
dont be a bugman. just read at your pace and dont think of it like a race nor competition

[Anonymous No.18338501]

>>18338471
>>18338483
This. Read MOAR FAGGOT!!!!

[Anonymous No.18338534]

>>18338406
I can read 30-40 pages a day and I'm ok with that. What matters is the read quality. With this amount of pages I read about 60 books a year.

[Anonymous No.18338551]

I only read 20-30 pages and hour. There's nothing wrong with that in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.18338626]

>>18338406
Good readers read slowly regardless of their capabilities.
I can read 40 pages an hour, but I tend to read at most because I try to truly discern the techniques of the author's style so that I can adapt them to my own writing.
I have read100+ books in a single in the past, and it's not worth it. You should instead find 'your kind of' authors and study their works.

[Anonymous No.18338640]

>>18338406
>Must read more so I can be accepted on my Indian Streetshitting forum

[Anonymous No.18338743]

>60-100 pages an hour
I can only read 40 pages or less, I don't have any physical books I'm reading on phone so it's easy to get distracted. It's hard, I get frequent headaches but I can say I'm learning something

[Anonymous No.18338752]

>>18338406
>60-100 pages per hour
Jesus fucking christ. I could only manage around 100 pages of Great Expectations a day.

[Anonymous No.18338760]

>>18338626
cope

[Anonymous No.18338790]

>>18338406
>Apparently everyone is reading 60-100 pages an hour.
They are lying. Or they are speed reading. But speed reading is not reading, you know.

[Anonymous No.18338815]

i can read 200 pages an hour of this one really really tiny book i have

[Anonymous No.18338846]

>>18338406
ask them to quote anything they've read. with a bit of luck they'll know what the book was even about.

[Anonymous No.18338850]

>>18338760
I don't know what it's like to read 100 pages in one hour, but I know that I profit more from reading 15 than from reading 30.
I should add that I read neither for fun nor erudition, though. I read to learn how the masters did it.

[Anonymous No.18338870]

someone posted a beautiful nietszche passage that btfo speed readers and speed writers but i can't find it now. also if those metrics are normie metrics i imagine they're reading some childish garbage like harry potter with huge fonts.

[Anonymous No.18338876]

>>18338406
There have been studies done that show without a doubt "fast" readers have terrible retention and comprehension when asked to even recite a previous paragraph.

[Anonymous No.18338948]

>>18338790
i can easily read 60-80 pages of a light book an hour, especially if it's not densely printed. then a harder, more challenging book, especially in foreign language, can take two or three times as long for the same amount of pages.
if you read all books at the same speed you're not reading right.

[Anonymous No.18339003]

>>18338406
They're reading fiction. Fiction is for fun, not comprehension, so it's easy to read quickly.

[Anonymous No.18339006]

>>18338421
:'C

[Anonymous No.18339012]

>>18339003
for me entertaining non-fiction or fiction with easy prose is the fastest read.
academic or dense NF should and will take time, you're supposed to treat it like a texbook of a sort, taking notes and stopping to think

[Anonymous No.18339017]

>>18338406
I read about 20-30 pages in 20 minutes, too bad I get distracted and only read 20-30 pages a day

[Anonymous No.18339063]

>>18338406
It doesn't matter. No one here reads anyways. Whenever an anon is bragging about their reading speed you can assume they read shitty books or skip words. Books are perfect for retards anyways so I don't understand why people here act so smart about it.

[Anonymous No.18339109]

yea, you're my good little pageslut aren't you? read faster babe, I want your eyes and thoughts WANDERING over these pages, I want your focus at its most promiscuous.
oh... yes... one-hundred pages an hour.... yes babe, you little whore, faster now... I'm almost there... oh YES BABE! I'M CUMMING ALL OVER YOUR CONSICOUSNESS, YOU'LL GIVE YOUR ATTENTION TO ANYTHING, WON'T YOU, YOU WHORE? MY LITTLE PAGESLUT!? AHHHHH!!

[Anonymous No.18339111]

>>18338406
>I can only do 20-30.
That's still more than me.
Don't worry anons, as long as I exist, all of you will have someone to look down upon. That is the reason I was brought into this world.

[Anonymous No.18339155]

>>18338406
Quality matters. I can read probably 120 pages of In Search of Lost Time in a day, but it takes me two whole days to understand the 7-page-long proof of the Prime Number Theorem.

[Anonymous No.18339307]

>>18338406
I have a similar concern with reading, not because I care about completing X number of books but because I get restless and therefore I can only read for about an hour at a time. If nobody has advice for reading more in that hour, how about advice for extending that time?

[Anonymous No.18339900]

ENTER...

[Anonymous No.18339972]

I have adhd and 87 IQ, can read only 10 pages in a hour at maximum lol

I just wanna die

[Anonymous No.18339994]

>>18338534
Cope.

[Anonymous No.18340001]

>>18338406
speedread, unironically. if you get even 60% of the material while reading twice as fast, you are comprehending more in any given timespan.
its simple math, really.

[Anonymous No.18340013]

>>18340001
I'll just take my time this isn't a race.

[Anonymous No.18340038]

>>18338406
Read to learn or for enjoyment, don't read just to read, or worse, to say that you've read something.

[Anonymous No.18340108]

When I’m being lazy and enjoying a story I can read at about 30 pages an hour. When I focus and actively think about reading quickly I can do about 60 pages an hour. But it’s like meditation, your brain kinda drifts away. But it really depends on the complexity of the content. Those numbers describe fiction for fun. Easy pop nonfiction I can read faster. Dense and complex legal or philosophical works take ages to read because you’re arguing with or contemplating every line.

[Anonymous No.18341012]

Sometimes I wish I would read slower. When I start getting into a book I start reading fast out of excitement

[Anonymous No.18341060]

depends on the book. I read 40 pages of blood meridian per day. I finished lolita in 2 days

[Anonymous No.18341225]

>>18339307
Increase the time incrementally. Go from 60 to 70mins for a month then 70 to 80 for the next. You can do 5mins increments if you like. It all adds up in the end. If the material is light i can read for 3 hours fairly easily which is about 80 pages for me approx. If i did that daily (i dont) id finish maybe 2 books a week

[Anonymous No.18341236]

>takes me an entire hour to read a chapter of crime and punishment
bros...im not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.18341276]

God ... who cares.

If a man regards a painting slowly while all those around him glance at it idly you may think of him as the intellectual of the bunch. How fast should a man read Yeats? Four or five pages an hour I would say. What if you had been living in the wilderness for 20 years and you had only one book? One page per day?

[Anonymous No.18341280]

>>18341060
Pedo

[Anonymous No.18341294]

>>18341225
So just force myself to read a little bit longer? It may work, I just usually give up once I get restless because I catch myself losing focus and drifting off into unrelated thoughts.

[Anonymous No.18341306]

>>18341236
don't give up, anon, you're gonna make it, that's for sure. if I could read this hack in russian, you can read him in english or whatever with ease

[Anonymous No.18341340]

>>18341236
>100 iq aint kin of mine

[Anonymous No.18341482]

Is english your mother language? How couldn't you read at least 30 pages and understand WHAT the fuck you read? Even I who haven't the habit could read 40-50 pages an hour back in day. Brainlet.