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1 more month /lit/

>> No.19470236

Read 34 books this year :DD

>> No.19470254

Currently at 51 books with ~15000 pages for an average of about ~291 pages / a book. My goal was 50 so now I'm aiming for 60.

>> No.19470284

>>19470236
>>19470254
Do you feel reading books has actually made you smarter or are you just doing it for le ebin memes?

>> No.19470292

>>19470284
citches cant even read for fun anymore

>> No.19470297

genuinely very excited to start this next year; i didnt do it this year because i started lurking here only a year ago. whats a good place to start? 50 books, maybe?

>> No.19470302

by the end of the year i think will complete 4

>> No.19470335

>>19470297
Outcome oriented goals are retarded.
Action oriented goals, now thats the ticket.
Instead of ending up pissed that you didnt reach your delusional goal, formulate an action that you can easily fulfill. Instead of trying to reech da big numba, set a goal of reading 30mins each day. This will have you read around 30 books a year. If some of the books are short that number will go up. You feel me dawg?

>> No.19470344

>>19470284
Yes, but that depends on the books you read and how actively you engage with them. I mostly read non-fiction, history, and philosophy, and I've taken like 2000 pages of notes this year.

>> No.19470349

>>19470039
I finished my goal of 10 the other night
Least amount I've read since 2016 but still was able to hit said goal so I'm happy

>> No.19470351

>>19470297
Compile a list of all the books you want to read or topics you want to read about for next year.

>> No.19470393

>>19470297
Agree with the other two anons. Figure out what you want to read and set realistic goals. If you get tired of a certain genre or topic, change it up with the next book. Will keep you from getting burnt out.

Set lower goals for your #of books read overall and then push yourself a little above what you read in 2022 for 2023.
Be sure to consider your situation when setting the number: do you have to work if so how often, do you have other obligations that supercede reading and eat into free time, etc.

>> No.19470408

Is it a characteristic of a bugman to set boundaries for how much you read? Why are so many on here so desperate for validation? Do you think anyone really cares that you claimed on the internet to have read x amount of pages a day?
I have no clue how many books I’ve read this year, nor would any of my friends who read. I could ballpark but that’s it. I get a book, I finish it, then I start the next one. At most I keep a list of several books I plan to read but don’t have yet.

>> No.19470412 [DELETED] 

>>19470039
i only read 26 books, but some of them were really long.

>> No.19470417

Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralyzing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts. -- Schopnehauer

>> No.19470421

>>19470039
i only read 26 books, but some of them were really long. goal was 30. good enough.

>> No.19470423

>>19470344
How often do you go over those notes?

>> No.19470428

Oof only 10 books read this year.

>> No.19470448

>>19470428
If you're making fun of me, I got married and have changed jobs this year so I've had alot goin on

>> No.19470454

>>19470039
Imagine turning reading into a challenge to consoom as much as possible

>> No.19470457

>>19470423
Every month I revisit them and catalog the most salient points I’ve made, for when I inevitably publish my critical volumes

>> No.19470475

>>19470423
The anon you're replying to here: depends. I typically go over my history, vocabulary and philosophy notes more frequently than most other notes. Like, I wouldn't go over the notes I took for Joyce's Ulysses. The only reason I may take notes for fiction is for future reference, be it in case of another read through or if I end up discussing it here on /lit/ or in class.

>> No.19470516

>>19470475
Lol how old are you?

>> No.19470520

>>19470516
25

>> No.19470630

I have 15 from the 20 books I plead to read so far. Will probably finish many books that are around 200-300 or even less pages so I can make it this month.

(Is this cheating?).

>> No.19470638

>>19470454
you didn't partake in those summer reading challenges at your local public library? was good times for me

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Only read five (5) books this year, but wrote one (stil working on it).

>> No.19470663
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19470663

Only read five books this year, but wrote one (still working on it).

>> No.19470957

>>19470297
I set my personal goal to be fifty pages per day, and let the total number of books follow. Don't set a specific numerical goal otherwise you chase numbers and ruin your experience.

>> No.19470959

>>19470039
49 out of 24.

>> No.19470974

reminder that fiction are not books and your 50 "books" a year mean nothing

>> No.19470985
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19470985

read more than 95% of /lit/ without even trying

>> No.19471011

I've only got one more book to go but I can't work up the motivation to start another book. Guess I'll just fucking fail.

>> No.19471025

>>19470448
I'm talking about myself

>> No.19471027

Did 12 this year, which was an improvement from 4 last year and 0 the year before
Next year will try to do 24

>> No.19471059

>>19470297

I started with 20 books goal and this year I've put 30. In the first half of the year I didn't really read, then I've read up to 27 and I still need 3. But again, it shouldn't matter, it's just a metric for the lulz, what's important is what you get from what you read.

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>>19470039
I lowered my goal to 20 books this year and I've only read 15 so far. Have almost exclusively worked from home this year so haven't been able to spend 1-2 hours reading every day on the train while commuting to work. It's been nice not having a higher goal and feeling the need to read just for the sake of hitting my mark.

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19471898

I'm at 97

>> No.19472252

>>19470284
You say this like reading 50 books is a lot you illiterate fuck

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19472254

i have read 5 books this year

AMA

>> No.19472266

>16 out of 30

It's over....

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19472312

I kinda fucked up by starting a book I can't exactly breeze through.

>> No.19472374

i read one, I started in october

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19472383

>tfw read 27 books for no reason

>> No.19472395

I’ve read about 7 this year and I’m making my goal 100 next year

>> No.19473053
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19473053

I've done 20 so far, will probably do a few more before year end, but I only read a single book from April-October. At least it's more than the 8 I did last year, but no longer having a commute to read on has still absolutely fucked my pace, I was doing 40-50 a year previously.

>> No.19473089

>>19471898
What's the book about the Decline and FAll of Western art about? Is it any good?

>> No.19473174

>>19473089
It's just a criticism of modern art and architecture and there's nothing very special about it. If you read a lot of right wing books you won't be seeing anything new. I would recommend Tolstoy's book on art over it.

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19473279

falling a bit behind but there is still time

>> No.19473299

Read 110 books this year. Aiming for 250 next year.

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>>19471898
what a king you are gonna make it

>> No.19473848

>>19470039
It's over

>> No.19473907

Goodreads is pure vanity. Doing the challenge forces you to get through books without reflecting on them or really understanding them. Or even worse, people literally read children's books, YA, and comics just to inflate their count.

>> No.19473919

I have only read four books this year:
-------- 2021
---January
A Christmas Carol (!)
Walden (!)
---September
The Time Machine
---November
Solaris
I did start a new job and I've devoted most of my time to that. Hopefully I can read about 20ish books next year.

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19473950

>>19470039

>> No.19474159

>>19470344
yawn fest

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19474465

Next year I'm deleting my goodreads and I'm going to read for minimum an hour a day instead of having a dumb number and continually thinking "I can catch up later."

>> No.19474759

>read less than 15 books this year
it's over

>> No.19474773

>only read ten
going to read like a maniac after the semester ends

>> No.19474978

i have read maybe 3-4, but i read alot here on /lit/ so i'm pretty sure that counts as like 50

>> No.19475143

>>19471898
Thoughts on Umberto Eco?

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>> No.19475736

>>19470039
>book count
Easily inflated by reading the shortest possible works and other stuff that takes the minimum amount of time

>page count
Easily inflated by non-prose works

>implying what you read had any value
It doesn't. The only way to really compare is to have a very detailed comparison, not a simple single number, or even as few numbers.

>> No.19475775

>>19470284
A lot of people have far higher expectations of books than they should.

>>19470335
No, action-oriented is wrong as well. Daily rituals aren't really any better in this regard, especially if you aren't feeling up to it.

>>19470344
What are you defining as "notes"? Some might call highlighting stuff as note-taking, whether it's physical or digital.

>>19470408
What do you call a person overly concerned and contemptuous of what others do?

>>19470454
We Live In A Society

>>19473907
What isn't vanity?

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19475787

>>19470039

>> No.19475796

>>19475775
>Contrarian mass reply fag that adds nothing to the discussion
Epic.
>b-but you added nothing to the discussion too!!!!1!!
And?

>> No.19475809

>>19475796
Thanks for the (you), kind anon, let me give you one as well. One good (you) deserves another!

>> No.19475842

>>19470039
Man in the High Castle
Kolyma Tales
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ubik
Tao Te Ching
Name of the Rose
On the Shoulders of Giants
Women
Factotum
Ham on Rye
Studies in Pessimism
And then a lot of my reading is just excerpts or incomplete books which I guess doesn't count? Seems kind of arbitrary but ok.

>> No.19475855

>>19475143
Different anon who's read the Name of the Rose and On the Shoulders of Giants. He's a massive intellect, with a logical and semiotic mind that reminds me in some ways of DFW, except Eco frankly seems a far more serious student of philosophy. I still need to read Foucault's pendulum.

>> No.19475864

>>19470284
This
>>19470292
I read for fun. I don't have great recall of everything I've read or anything. That said, there's an Emerson quote that puts the flipside pretty well: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

>> No.19475872

>>19470417
This is true, unless you're reading Schopenhauer. Can't go wrong reading Schopenhauer.

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19475891

I only took up reading again at the beginning of August, so I'm pretty happy with the number and proud of myself for sticking with it. I'm also so happy that it doesn't feel like a chore anymore, that it's just genuinely pleasant and that I look forward to it all day. It helped me cut down on screen time by a lot, too, which I thought it wasn't possible anymore at my level of brain rot.

>> No.19475893

Wait, what was the challenge? Number of books read? I'm at like 300 I think. [spoilers]Japanese Light Novel translations count.

>> No.19475910

>>19470284
It has made me more aware, which I'm deeply thankful for. For some reason reading more makes me care more about my environment and physical sensations, even if I just read for fun. It's nowhere near as numbing a pastime as my other hobbies.

>> No.19476026

>>19475893
that's the gayest thing I've ever read on this board

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19477472

Fantastic year.

>> No.19477847

>>19477472
I like you :)

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19477856

Didn't read at all from January to March, and then from August to September and I'm still on track to reach my goal.

>> No.19478985

bump