/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.24254537]

How do some people manage to read 100 books per year?

I read about 2-3 books per month, sometimes more or less depending on the book size.

[Anonymous No.24254543]

>>24254537
>How do some people manage to read 100 books per year?
slop and young adult novels, that's how

[Anonymous No.24254549]

>>24254537
>>24254543

[Anonymous No.24254606]

>>24254537
Part of it is that a lot of it is short
Part of it is that a lot of it requires little active engagement, allowing them to multitask
Part of it is that they count audiobooks as reading
Part of it is that they are skimming or speed reading
Part of it is that reading is their primary hobby

100 books is about 2 a week. At 200 words per minute(average), let's say they read for 4 hours every day for a year. Well the math adds up to 336,923 words a week. You could read 4 novels a week at that rate easily. In reality though, most people who are avid readers are not spending 4 hours every day, spending 2 hours a day is more realistic and still brings us over 100 novels. YA novels tend to be around 60,000 words, bumping us to around 2.5 a week at 2 hours each day. Novellas and novelettes are even shorter, as are short stories.

[Anonymous No.24254620]

>>24254537
>spend more time reading
>read shorter works
>read faster
>listen to books

[Anonymous No.24254631]

>>24254537
Most women readers in my WhatsApp group are married housewives or young women living leisure free life while working a part time job in restaurant or hotel.
These women do not work except cleaning their house or celebrating kitty party. So the only thing they do in their life is read books (for work) or watch sitcom shows with their friends.
I think that's atleast better than incels here who live a NEET life and waste time asking irrelevant off topic questions in this board and waste most of the time fapping at BMWF videos on PH.

[Anonymous No.24254868]

>>24254537
>100
Ridiculous. These people must be the anon in pic.

[Anonymous No.24254874]

>>24254631
>I think that's atleast better than incels here who live a NEET life and waste time asking irrelevant off topic questions in this board and waste most of the time fapping at BMWF videos on PH.
quite the projection

[Anonymous No.24254876]

>>24254549
Kek

[Anonymous No.24254886]

>>24254549
certified burger letters

[Anonymous No.24255033]

>>24254537
>How do some people manage to read 100 books per year?

By lying or reading picture books

[Anonymous No.24255667]

>>24254606
>Part of it is that a lot of it is short
>Part of it is that a lot of it requires little active engagement, allowing them to multitask
>Part of it is that they count audiobooks as reading
>Part of it is that they are skimming or speed reading
>Part of it is that reading is their primary hobby
>100 books is about 2 a week. At 200 words per minute(average), let's say they read for 4 hours every day for a year. Well the math adds up to 336,923 words a week. You could read 4 novels a week at that rate easily. In reality though, most people who are avid readers are not spending 4 hours every day, spending 2 hours a day is more realistic and still brings us over 100 novels. YA novels tend to be around 60,000 words, bumping us to around 2.5 a week at 2 hours each day. Novellas and novelettes are even shorter, as are short stories.
rom a young age? (first grade) I read only paperbacks and "real books", IE... adult books.
Sad childhood.
ALone a lot.
"books are cold, but fast friends"
yeah. I rad 100 pages a day, minimum.
150 to 200, if the book was good.
Yes, I read faster than normal, I think.
No, I never skimmed. Every word.
It was some sort of, well? Compulsion.
Like an alcoholic drinking? I would read. A lot.
but, I'm hardly the proto-typical reader/case.

[Anonymous No.24255876]

I manage about two books a week easily.
Will usually read one novel and one poetry collection.
I get two hours reading every day just commuting and on lunch break, then evenings and weekends. Sometimes 70 or 100 pages a day depending on how accessible the style is.
Last week I read An Area of Darkness by VS Naipaul (300 pages) and Worldy Hopes by AR Ammons (55 pages).
I'm amazed the Naipaul isn't memed more, it's everything the Internet thinks about Indians.

[Anonymous No.24255928]

>>24254537
They read children's story books.

[Anonymous No.24255954]

I was intreested, as a writer?
In word counts, what constitutes what.
Its universally agreed, that a standard length novel... is about 80,000 words.
When I write, in my font and everything... this occurs somewhere *around* 200 pages.
somewhere aroun 40-50k words? Is where short story ends, and "short novel" begins.
so, 50 to 79.9k... is "short novel" length.
I quit reading for pure pleasure, a long time ago.
Its a special occasion now.
I read "A bullet for cinderella" (Macdonald), as a reccomendation for "style".
over 200, less than 250 pages. mall dense print.
It was *about* an 8 hour deal for me.
Every word, not rushing.
SO yeah.
I could easily read, a standard novel length book?
Every day,
Honestly here...
people have handed me a paperback, say 225 pages.
I'm back the next day, returning and discussing it.
People *assume*, I'm a "skimmer"... but, I'm not.
those who can;t "really" read well?
naturally assume, that anyone who can and does...
is some sort of trickery involved.
Not in my case.
I'm the guy at work, that they hand the 800 page text to.
Yeah. Couple days?
"here's what's going on, guys.... I'm passing out copies of chapter 7, that's what we need to ficus on. That's, what we need."
*shrugs*
we're out there. Just not a lot of us.

Not all "fast readers" are what I call "real readers".
They skim, they pretend.
I * bust* them with gusto,.
My "retention", is somewhat legendary, too.
I pick up a book I havent read in 20 years... flipping... couple seconds... here, its what I wanted to show you.
Yeah, freaks people out.
But, I'm not ordinary or typical.
---------------------------------------
This, all comes at some cost to me.
I'm a bit of a sperg,.
as was once said...
"the gods? Are jealous gods. what the gods give with the one hand? They take away with the other."
This, was my "gift".
In return? I'm a sperg.
*whatever*

[Anonymous No.24256034]

I read a lot. I just really enjoy reading. I don't try to speedread or anything, it just comes naturally.

[Anonymous No.24256047]

Some people include each separate Platonic dialogue as a book, fucking pricks.

[Anonymous No.24256174]

>>24254868
I only buy books. Whether it's new or used, I don't want to waste the money. I've read tons that didn't make any sense. That being said, I still don't read 100 a year.

[Anonymous No.24256644]

>>24256047
I've seen at least one faggot here that counted biblical books separately

[Anonymous No.24257195]

I read over a hundred books a year. what I've found when I compare with my friend who reads less and considers himself a slow reader and me a fast reader is that actually we both read the same series, I just read a lot more. So he'll read a chapter a day for like half an hour whereas I read for a few hours and several chapters.i just enjoy reading more, it's the primary thing I do for entertainment

[Anonymous No.24257207]

>>24254549
for me, its Hot Dog Girl

[Anonymous No.24257217]

What's even the point of reading a lot? Never once I met a person and thought to myself - wow, I wish I read as much as them. It just never happened.

[Anonymous No.24258347]

>>24257217
>What's even the point of reading a lot? Never once I met a person and thought to myself - wow, I wish I read as much as them. It just never happened.
For one thing? It grants the big reader, a sort of automatic English class.
The more you read? The more vocabulary you naturally have. You dont have to "force" big words to sound important.
Broad general knowledge.

>What's even the point of reading a lot?
what's the point of exercising a lot.
what's the point of... *anything*, a lot of it.
*shrugs*
for me, It satisfied some urge.
I felt it was better, than becoming a drug addict or a drunkard, or a lazy do nothing bum.
Personally, I find a lot of pseudo-intellectuals? Like to pretend they read fast and have great retention.
I strongly suspect, with no proof?
A *lot* of this... "I read this and that obscure philosophy book", to be a sort of...
affectation on line, a put on.

[Anonymous No.24258355]

The average book takes about 10 hours to read. You can finish the average book in less than a week if you read just two hours a day. Once you realize this, it becomes a lot less daunting.