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20270043 No.20270043 [Reply] [Original]

what's everyone's reading habits?

>> No.20270072

>get into comfy chair
>read for a few hours because I enjoy it
>brush teeth
>read some more in bed before going to sleep

>> No.20270076

>>20270072
>used to read in bed
>eyes start to water
>at some point started developing styes regularly
At least that's what I think the cause might be. RIP comfy bed reading

>> No.20270197

>waste 12 hours doing stupid shit
>read 30 pages before bed if I'm lucky

>> No.20270198

i don't

>> No.20270204

>admire book from afar
>request book
>pay for book
>acquire book
>read book twice
>put book on shelf
>months go by
>remember book is nice
>go read book more

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20270208

I read ~50 pages in a day but after I finish I can't decide on a new book to read for a few days.

>> No.20270220

I try to read for at least 30 min or an hour everyday. If not a book then a couple lengthy articles is good for me. Try to have an audiobook to so if nothing else I'm still stimulated intellectually.

>> No.20270230

>>20270043
>open e-book in reader program
>open browser tab with online e-book
>e-book on phone
>pdf with tabs of book
>book in front of me
>books next to my bed on night stand
I have a problem

>> No.20270233

I can't read, I use text to speech and voice dictation to browse this board.

>> No.20271019

>>20270233
That's sad. I hope you are okay.

>> No.20272274

>>20270043
non-fiction; I sleep
fiction; real shit

>> No.20272530

>>20270043
I usually read for 30 minutes, take a break, then repeat until i hit about 3 hours of reading. By that point my mind is fuzzy. For clarification i read philosophy.

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20272535

>>20270043
I read when the occasion stirs. None of this read-for-30-minutes-a-day bullshit that most spout. No, none of those self-discipline approaches such as the 10% method or the 10, 20, 30+ pages a day method. If you have to self-discipline your way on reading a book, it means two things. First, the book is not worth reading. Second, you are incapable of reading. It is almost always the first one. If it were truly a brilliant book, the kind of book that you obsess over, then there is no need for self-discipline. That is why I read when the occasion stirs. It acts as a filter: when the occasion arises, and I obsess over the book, then the book is worth reading. And when one obsesses over a book, it matters not how many hours read or how many pages flipped. What does matter is the obsession because that is what causes people to devour books and remember the ideas within it forever. If the occasion arises and I don't obsess over the book, I drop the book forever. The beauty of a great book is its ability to make people obsess over it. That is also the beauty of a great idea: the ability to make people obsess over an idea. And the more ideas that operate within heads, the more brilliant the idea. Such is the case of a great book: the more people obsess over a book, the more often hands flip pages, the more often that book gets finished cover to cover. Thus, any book that causes no amount of internal obsession is never worth reading to its end, and is in fact worthy of an immediate drop.

>> No.20272547

>>20272535
An animeposter actually has a correct opinion for once

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20272555

not enough

>> No.20273360

>>20272547
Oddly enough, I think cunnyposters operate in a power law. That is to say, the best effortposters are cunnyposters while simultaneously being the worst posters.

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20273407

I read on my kindle any spare moment I have.
>waiting at red light: kindle
>walking to laundry: kindle
>in line somewhere: kindle
>resting between sets: kindle
Other times I'll specifically go somewhere to read
>at cafe: read
>at park: read
>at beach: read
If I'm really into something I'll read it nonstop until I'm too tired to continue, then resume the next day
>spent two weeks nonstop reading Sadly, Porn by TLP
>spent a week obsessively reading Mushoku Tensei
>will spend 24+ hours reading the latest Peter F Hamilton novel
I also spend way too long on 4chan, making dozens of posts a day and reading dozens of threads.
I'd say 90% of my waking time is reading in one form or another.