/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5346906]

How long does it take you to read a 300-page book?

[Anonymous No.5346909]

>>5346906
Half an hour.

[Anonymous No.5346934]

>>5346909
Liar?

Or how could that be possible?

[Anonymous No.5346940]

acm1pt

[Anonymous No.5346945]

>>5346934
I'm not even a fast reader. If it's taking you more than ten minutes to read a hundred pages you should consider euthanasia.

[Anonymous No.5346950]

300 minutes so 5 hours. Could be faster or slower depending on how into it I am, but that is what I average.

[Anonymous No.5346953]

15'20 minutes

[Anonymous No.5346956]

>>5346945
That's one minute for ten pages.
Six seconds for one page.
It is not physically possible.

[Anonymous No.5346969]

>>5346940

2tnslppbntso

[Anonymous No.5346973]

like 8 hours

[Anonymous No.5346980]

300 pages

[Anonymous No.5346988]

It depends on the book. 300 pages of twilight level drek would take about 2 hours.

300 pages Herman Melville could take several hours

Why does it matter how quickly you read? You racin?

[Anonymous No.5346991]

upper bound between 4-5 hours f I were to do it in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.5347010]

>>5346956
Are you parsing sentences in sequence? Just read them all at once.

[Anonymous No.5347013]

>>5346906
6 to 7 hours if it's a book of average difficulty and density of text. That translates to about three days in practice since I usually only read a couple hours a day.

[Anonymous No.5347015]

>reading sentences sequentially
>not reading a whole book at once

[Anonymous No.5347016]

fuk reading

[Anonymous No.5347019]

>reading books

le shiggy schopinhauer face

[Anonymous No.5347021]

>>5346956
Yes if you are reading children's books.

[Anonymous No.5347336]

>>5346906
Until my attention span gives out and I go shit posting.

[Anonymous No.5347376]

>>5347015
tralfamadorian much?

[Anonymous No.5347384]

>>5346906
Depends on how long the book is.

[Anonymous No.5347462]

3 hours if it's straightforward fiction (I average 100 pgs/hr), but it can take twice that if it's nonfiction or complex/surreal stuff.

[Anonymous No.5347472]

>>5346906

About two weeks. And that's with being unemployed.

[Anonymous No.5347498]

>>5346906
three weeks

[Anonymous No.5347590]

>>5347472
>>5347498
Are you guys dyslexic?

[Anonymous No.5347601]

>>5347590
no. just no specification about the book, so it's an average. but like with my writing, when I read, i don't just read shit i don't like. so. books i read? that length would take me roughly 2.5 weeks, like i said. probably contributed to my dropping-out of school. i like the finer details

[Anonymous No.5347624]

>>5347601
How many minutes/hours do you put in total in reading the 300 page book?

(I'm imagining an unemployed unshaven dirty man strugglingly [wow what an ugly word] working through a single word every hour)

[Anonymous No.5347628]

>>5346906
A week because I specifically break the chapters up to fit a 7 day schedule.

[Anonymous No.5347631]

guy's which board is more of a shithole: /v/ or /mu/?

[Anonymous No.5347632]

>>5346906

Maybe eight or nine days, since I tend not to read more than 30 or 40 pages from one book in one day. Reading time is something like 12 hours.

[Anonymous No.5347634]

>>5347631
/v/

A great deal of /v/ seems to go out of it's way to shitpost.

[Anonymous No.5347636]

a few days
I'll read about 100 pages per day and that takes me a few hours
>>5347631
/v/

[Anonymous No.5347637]

>>5347634
have you ever been on /mu/? it's basically [s4s].

[Anonymous No.5347642]

>>5347624
When you're reading things about catharsis, or the 'politics of driving', you tend to take three weeks. what about the Sun and our knowledge concerning its nature? why are bees dying? shit like that. so pardon me if i dwell in the flowers for a second of life you deem too long . i will stop enjoying myself at your discretion

[Anonymous No.5347645]

>>5347637
I was last on /mu/ a week ago and received some great recommendations.

[Anonymous No.5347651]

>>5347637
at least it doesn't have the same
>drawthread
>filename thread
>autism thread
>zoe quinn thread
>vivian thread
>flavor of the month general
>offtopic
>offtopic
>offtopic
on the front page every day

[Anonymous No.5347686]

>>5347010
Goddamn, the concept of doing this is blowing my mind.

[Anonymous No.5347693]

>>5346906

[Anonymous No.5347694]

>start reading book
>got to page 6 and still no pictures

what the fuck? how am I supposed to visualize what's going on?

[Anonymous No.5347695]

>>5347686
It's possible. Same way you read all the words of a sentence at once instead of going over them one-by-one. People exist who can do it.

[Anonymous No.5347698]

>>5347695
>People exist who can do it.
Yes and they are called idiot savants for a reason.

[Anonymous No.5347701]

maybe 10 hours. I've never timed myself so im just guessing.

[Anonymous No.5347702]

300 is fairly short. Depends how big the font is though. Shorter books will often blow their font up to make it appear larger.

Like The Running Man is around 300 pages, but it's huge font so it's actually a fairly small book. If it was normal font it would probably be around 200. But it took me about a day to read that, at a casual pace.

[Anonymous No.5347707]

>>5347642
I wasn't trying to be obnoxious or mean. I just wanted to know how many minutes/hours it takes for you to read a 300 page book if it takes 2 weeks or however long you said. The silly illustration was just that, a silly illustration. I apologize if it came across as something else.

But still you didn't answer me and I am genuinely curious. I want to know over a 2 week or however long period, how much time is devoted to reading? I suppose it can vary on the topic, non-fiction scientific stuff to fiction so maybe you can be specific for each genre?

No hard feelings, sorry again.

[Anonymous No.5347708]

>>5347698
>Called idiot savants for a reason
Yep. Many don't even comprehend the writing, or give it much though. They're just able to pick out the facts that they can recall later.
>Who died on pg 310?
>Beansprout Joe

[Anonymous No.5347715]

Why do you need to read that fast? After you read it can you pass an exam based on that book?

[Anonymous No.5347717]

>>5346906
Is this shit for real? Does anyone else have sub-vocalization? I can't read more than 100 pages in an hour and a half (minimum).

[Anonymous No.5347724]

>>5347717
I do. Probably could get rid of it if need be, but I rather like taking my time reading. Pretty enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.5347725]

>>5347707
oh no problem. please. i over-react half the time, if anything. trying to work on stuff. who isn't. at least i don't have real problems like some other people i guess. (not you, i can't convey that properly, just english's notion of 'you' in plural). that's why it takes me 3 weeks to read something. look how long it took me to say a little thing like this. and when i say 3 weeks, i usually have multiple readings of the same thing because i'm never satisfied with most authors' styles. i want to write something. we'll see how it goes. but that i spend about 4-5 hours for each day, in those examples. happy reading/writing.

[Anonymous No.5347727]

>>5347717
Motherfucker, you got it easy. I sub-vocalize and it takes me a fucking hour and a half to read 30 goddamn pages.

[Anonymous No.5347745]

>>5347727
How the hell can I delete sub-vocalization?

[Anonymous No.5347748]

If I really like the book and it's just a story, a couple of hours. Something philosophical or similarly dense can take months as I like to spend some time mulling over the ideas I've just encountered. Sometimes I read books that I only kind of like and they can take a few weeks. I've usually got a few on the go at one time anyway.

>>5347717
Sub vocalization?

[Anonymous No.5347749]

>>5347727
I sub vocalize and I do a page a minute.

Is this good or bad? Is sub-vocalizing good or bad? Should I stop?

[Anonymous No.5347755]

>>5347748
Read aloud in your head.

[Anonymous No.5347765]

>>5347749
>>5347748
Sub-vocalization is the inner voice that repeats everything while you read. I consider it to be a waste of time, even though I've never gotten rid of. However, some people say that it makes you understand less.

[Anonymous No.5347777]

>>5347765
i don't think i've ever read a single word without doing that. but when i drive or walk down a sidewalk i tend to look more below than at horizon. 'they' say that's 'bad' but i find that it works. somehow.

[Anonymous No.5347781]

>>5347755
That's just blown my tiny mind. Is there another way to read, or do you just mean you read internally as slowly as if you were reading aloud?

[Anonymous No.5347782]

>>5347777
maybe that's bad too because i also can't find shit, right in front of my face. that can be a man versus woman thing, too, apparently. as men scope distance and women stare at babies

[Anonymous No.5347786]

>>5347781
Speed readers eliminate this voice. They can read faster than the son of the fart.

[Anonymous No.5347787]

>>5347777
Why are you driving down a sidewalk?

[Anonymous No.5347793]

>>5346906
About 30 minutes

[Anonymous No.5347794]

>>5347787
i realized that and read it back after i posted. just English, or me, being stupid. i'm tired and lazy right now.

[Anonymous No.5347795]

>>5347781
No, it's a lot faster than reading aloud would be. Most of the time, words are only half pronounced in my mind, and it's more out of habit than need. Sub-vocalization isn't paramount to my understanding of something, just something I do.

[Anonymous No.5347798]

>>5347793
Somehow, I sub-continently prefer not to believe you.

[Anonymous No.5347801]

I read pretty fast, but without that "voice" I don't think you can really call it reading can you? It's more like >>5347708 says with just getting facts for recall later. You'd miss out on almost everything.

[Anonymous No.5347804]

>>5347794
>I was only pretending to be retarded

YOU MOTHER FUCKER
I SAW YOU
I SAW YOUR ASS DRIVING DOWN THAT GODDAMN SIDEWALK

[Anonymous No.5347807]

>>5347798
>sub-continently
I've read that shit like 8 times, and I'm still struggling to assign a definition to it. Sub-consciously? Whatever it is, anon, you have outdone yourself.

[Anonymous No.5347813]

>>5347804
made me smile
>minorityreport.jpg

[Anonymous No.5347815]

>>5347804
Who lets a donkey drive their car?

[Anonymous No.5347819]

>>5347807
Sorry, it's the auto-corrector. What I meant was what you just said.

[Anonymous No.5347826]

>>5347819
I was genuinely stumped, STUMPED!
>nice pic

[Anonymous No.5347834]

>>5347815
says the mighty minotaur?

[Anonymous No.5347836]

>>5347819
Most women I know don't read at all.

[Anonymous No.5347845]

>>5347836
Well, women are strange and fascinating creatures.

[Anonymous No.5347861]

>>5347845
How big of a disparity do you truly believe lies between men and women? Off topic 'N' shit, I know. The comment just made me think.

[Anonymous No.5347868]

>>5347861
Somedays I think it's somewhat substantial and then other days I ridicule that idea as juvenile.

[Anonymous No.5347871]

Completely depends on the difficulty of the book

Invisible Monsters took me like 3 days, Blood Meridian took me like 3 weeks.

[Anonymous No.5347872]

>tfw can't concentrate for more than 15-20 min bursts

i have to do like 15 mins on 45 mins off in order to get my motivation back but it's getting better with practice

originally could only do 5 minute spurts

i think i am retarded

[Anonymous No.5347878]

>>5347861
As a child I liked the idea of men as humble, weak protagonists; and women as cute but dangerous fairies who could manipulate men with their talk and beauty. (Like classic mermaids)

[Anonymous No.5347879]

>>5347868
I like to imagine it's a potent mixture of confirmation bias and cultural expectations that makes people believe there is that huge of a difference. I don't know, though. Male and female brains are demonstrably different, after all.

[Anonymous No.5347887]

>>5347878
Oh anon, will your reality ever come out on DVD, so we all can enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.5347888]

>>5347872
ADHD?

[Anonymous No.5347896]

>>5347878
my succubus gf in ugly americans

[Anonymous No.5347908]

>>5347888
that's what all my teachers in school thought but i've never been formally diagnosed

i honestly think i've just been a lazy shit for so long that i forgot how not to be but i am putting the pieces back together now and my dis tractability seems to be getting better

[Anonymous No.5347912]

>>5347908
wow i really butchered that post didn't i

[Anonymous No.5347916]

>>5347912
no

[Anonymous No.5347927]

>>5347912
You did great, friend. Believe in yourself.

[Anonymous No.5347932]

>>5346956
lel, fucking pleb

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.5347942]

>>5347628
that's weird as fuck, my friend
>>5347701
i'm sitting pretty at about 10 hours, too. couple days of heavy reading or a week of very light reading.
>>5347715
because we're all going to die
and you don't need to pass an exam, the point of reading books is not to retain the information but to process it and use it to further your character, your knowledge, and your creative capacity.
>>5347727
i read aloud faster than that
>>5347836
most men i know don't read at all
>they're just "really into music"
>>5347878
i'll put down a book if a female character like that is introduced
>and then set it on fire

[Anonymous No.5347954]

>>5347927
This pig makes me so happy.

[Anonymous No.5347966]

>>5347942
Stately Muck Bulligan is right, I know more women who read than men. Though it's mostly genre rubbish. But it's better than my guy friends who sneer at reading recreationally

[Anonymous No.5347983]

>>5347942
>the point of reading books is not to retain the information but to process it and use it to further your character, your knowledge, and your creative capacity.
die

[Anonymous No.5347986]

>>5347966
I only have one friend who really reads and he isn't very secure in his self or in his knowledge. The rest are basically genre fiction to zero about even between male and female. Regardless, I don't get sneered at. At just get weird looks like I'm on some other planet or some deep well of wisdom and knowledge. I suppose the previous really is the case in some sense.

[Anonymous No.5347987]

>>5346906

I hate it when people say "page" as if it's any kind of common signifier of length.

A "page" is arbitrary. Some books have "pages" that are four words long. Some 200. Some 1000.

Ask instead, "How long does it take you to read a _____-word book?"

[Anonymous No.5348003]

>>5347986
>some deep well of wisdom and knowledge

I hate this, as if I know the answer to life because I have a different hobby than you.

[Anonymous No.5348005]

>>5347983
what was the difference

[Anonymous No.5348006]

>>5347987
Pages serve as a broad indicator. Also, I don't know the number of words in most books I read.

[Anonymous No.5348010]

>>5348005
I think what he's upset about is the idea of books as a means instead of an end in themselves.

[Anonymous No.5348024]

>>5348003
I don't know, not to be pretentious (watch as I'm abstained from all claims of being pretentious), but literature is a "deeper" hobby. Certain people are attracted to it, and in it, many important concepts are dissected.

[Anonymous No.5348033]

>>5348006

I'm saying, pages are USELESS as a broad indicator, because different books contain varying amounts of words on one page.

As for the other thought: google is your friend.

Just type in something like
[book title] wordcount

[Anonymous No.5348041]

>>5348033
Page number typically only comes up in casual conversations, where being broad is just fine. I'm not saying wordcount is inferior to page number, just that page number is more familiar to people and is better to use in casual discussion.

[Anonymous No.5348044]

>>5348033
words are useless as an indicator. some words have one character. some have dozens. you should ask "how long does it take you to read a ____-character book."

[Anonymous No.5348057]

>>5348044
characters are useless, some character like m are way longer than l. you should ask"how long does it take you to read a book with ____ amount of ink."

[Anonymous No.5348066]

>>5348044

Yeah, but given their sheer quantity, they achieve a kind of average between them. Two 3,000-word texts are going to be very, very close in length. Whereas two 300-page books might be wildly different in length. One could be a paperback. The other could be a statistics textbook. "Page" means nothing.

[Anonymous No.5348084]

For people who don't subvocalize, do you do it for fiction? or at least dialogue? I'm not exactly conscious of it but I'll go back and forth depending on the content and writing style.

[Anonymous No.5348103]

>>5347986
>isn't really secure in himself or his knowledge

I think that might be because he reads.

[Anonymous No.5348110]

>>5348057
>e-books

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.5348112]

>>5347983
what was the correct answer? what is the point of reading books? if you aren't incorporating text into yourself and instead are just focusing on memorizing the work or "retaining" it, you're doing yourself a disservice.

i'm (pretty obviously) not saying that you shouldn't make an effort to understand what you're reading in as thorough a way as possible, but being aware of your own analyses and interpretation matters far more than just knowing what the author set out to do.

[Anonymous No.5348117]

>>5348066
The exact same can be said for the sheer quantity of books with pages. It averages out that page length is a perfectly acceptable metric on the aggregate.

[Anonymous No.5348131]

>>5347015
>Reading books sequentially
>Not reading an entire series at once

[Anonymous No.5348135]

>>5348066
How are two 300 page books going to vary in length? They're both 300 pages long.

[Anonymous No.5348140]

>>5348131
>reading books that come in a series
fantasypleb detected

[Anonymous No.5348157]

>>5348140
>Has never seen a series of books of political occurrences of or pertaining to an event or nation labeled by year in a library
Your mind couldn't comprehend knowing every public thing England has done since 1928 anyway.

[Anonymous No.5348160]

>>5348157
thank god that sounds gay and boring

kinda like you

[Anonymous No.5348164]

depends how much im into it i guess

[Anonymous No.5348188]

>>5348084
Generally you subvocalize when you read poetry, otherwise you miss out on the rhythm of the piece. That's the only time I ever do it.

[Anonymous No.5348202]

>>5347686
He doesn't actually do that, he's being a dickhead and stroking his epeen. He hate himself so much he comes to an anonymous imageboard to lie about reading.

[Anonymous No.5348227]

I never thought about it, until reading this thread, but when I subvocalize (is that the "reading in your head), and characters each get their own distinct voices, I read at about 1 page/min depending on the size of text. I just read 1984 (325page book) and it took me 6 hours over 3 days. but, when I read non-fiction, and I don't have to give characters voices, and there is no scenery to set, I read closer to 100 pages/hr.

difference being, after reading a fiction story, I'll recall it in my memory as if I watched a movie. I eidetic memory makes it so I can't re-read books though, I end up predicting the words that are coming up and skip entire pages (no need to re-read the scenery or the character descriptions). I end up reading books as if they're plays, and then I read closer to 100-125 pages/min depending on the amount of dialog (inner or outward).

non-fiction books aren't like movies, I recall the facts from them, but there is no mental image associated (not even "floating" text).

[Anonymous No.5348247]

>>5348227
I don't do this, nor do I see images whilst reading (barring one or two flashes).

[Anonymous No.5348249]

>>5346906
4 months.

[Anonymous No.5348267]

>>5348247
this makes me feel sad for you

[Anonymous No.5348271]

I don't know about hours, but I'll usually take my time and read an average length book over 3-4 weeks

[Anonymous No.5348278]

>>5348267
I don't know any different, although I do sometimes feel like I'm missing out.

[Anonymous No.5348301]

>>5348278
you had a shit english teacher in elementary

[Anonymous No.5348306]

A couple hours

I always flash read books, then read them again multiple times. I can't read things slowly

[Anonymous No.5348311]

>>5348301
I always assumed it was something more defective within me. I enjoy reading, I just don't get images internally.

[Anonymous No.5348328]

>>5348311
It seems to me like you are not at all a visual thinker. You think only in words. yes?

[Anonymous No.5348347]

>>5348311
go download some audio books and just lay down and close your eyes, see if you can't visualize the stories

[Anonymous No.5348348]

If I like it, three days.

[Anonymous No.5348365]

>>5348328
Yeah, that sounds about right.

>>5348347
I never really got the appeal of audio books, but if you have a good recommendation I'll give it a crack.

[Anonymous No.5348477]

>>5348365
James Marsters reading Dresden Files, really hits his stride in the 3rd book

[Anonymous No.5348512]

>>5348477
I'll check it out. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.5348775]

>>5346906
two hours at most. But if I;m not busy/distracted, less than an hour

And yes I'm a fast reader
No, I don't read books without understanding them because reading fast is already NATURAL for me to do.

[Anonymous No.5348814]

>>5348775
Michael, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[Anonymous No.5348847]

>>5346906
A day or a week, depending on the format (audiobook, regular) and my interest.

[Anonymous No.5348903]

>>5347631
/v/ wins by virtue of actually discussing videogames every now and then

[Anonymous No.5348909]

>>5348775
>And yes I'm a fast reader
Yo, protip: that's not a good thing.

[Anonymous No.5348911]

About a day, but it depends how motivated I am and if I'm taking notes or not.

[Anonymous No.5348915]

>>5346906
I've read a few 150-180 page novels this holiday in less than 24 hours. So if the book is exciting it'll take me two days. Depends on size/dialogue/chapter endings, obviously. I average just above 30 pages an hour on Don Quixote, if that means anything to you.

[Anonymous No.5349055]

A little over a month I guess. I don't read much and I read slow. Rushing through a book is a shitty idea

[Anonymous No.5349124]

About a year, I consider a book read only once as unfinished.

[Anonymous No.5349130]

>>5346906
Shitty question, depends on the book. The first chapter of Das Kapital, or the Introduction of the Phenomenology of Spirit, can keep you occupied for about the same amount of time it takes to finish the entire ASoIaF series.

[Anonymous No.5349149]

>>5348911
What do you take notes about?

I feel like picking out sentences will help me with my own writing

[Anonymous No.5349192]

>>5348909
Do you slow movies down to half speed when you watch them so you'll 'understand them better'? Speed readers take the same amount away from a book as people reading at a normal speed, and the good ones will have time to read it five times over by the time your sluggish ass has finished.

[Anonymous No.5349239]

>>5349192
>Speed readers take the same amount away from a book as people reading at a normal speed
As a speed reader: no, that's completely false.

[shorts No.5349240]

>>5349130
Pffffffflol bullshit

[Anonymous No.5349245]

>>5349240
Dude, people have written 50-pages essays on the possible interpretations of the word 'erscheint', (probably mis-)translated as 'presents itself', in the first sentence of Kapital. Somehow I don't see any word or sentence in any work of genre fiction give anyone that much of a headache.

[Anonymous No.5349293]

c-carrot...

;_;

[Anonymous No.5349382]

>>5346906
Word count per page varies from book to book, hence your question is invalid and you should euthanise yourself. The only valid way of measuring book length is by words per book.

Your question should be:
How long it would take you to read a book containing x words.

Reading speed also varies depending on the type of book and difficulty of text.

[Anonymous No.5349420]

It obviously depends on WHAT I'm reading but depending on how much time I have in a day to read, I could read about 1000 words in 7-10
without really "racing" anyway, its my average imo.
Sometimes I pick up the pace and read really fast, and see how much information I retain, and compare it to the pages I read

[Anonymous No.5349424]

Well it deppends on how long are the pages, but probably about 9-10 hours

[Anonymous No.5349434]

>>5348202
Envy isn't attractive.

[Anonymous No.5349703]

>>5349149
Quotations I like, examples of prose I enjoy/wish to emulate, points of reference, key ideas, allusions (this was especially true in Finnegan's Wake)

[Anonymous No.5350699]

>>5347010
>>5346945
>>5346909
>reading genre fiction

[Anonymous No.5350707]

>>5347694
10/10

[Anonymous No.5350716]

>>5346906
The depends on the book.

I read 300 paged pulp in one sitting, I read 160 page'd The Crying of Lot 49 in two days because I'm taking my time to map out the conspiracy and appreciate the prose.

[Anonymous No.5350856]

>>5346906
How does anyone even read a book that long? The books I read are usually 25-30 pages, maybe throw in a 150 page tome now and then if I want a challenge.

[Anonymous No.5350870]

>>5350856
Are you fishing for "horrible bait" replies? Is this the new trolling? Damn, trolls have goten lazy.

[Anonymous No.5351339]

>>5349192
>reads faster than "normal"
>equates this to everyone else doing things at half speed

do you watch TV and movies at double speed? while you get the general plot points, do you enjoy them as much?

[Anonymous No.5351380]

>>5349382
Letters count per word varies from book to book, hence your response is invalid and you should euthanize [sic] yourself. The only valid way to measure a book length is by letters per book.

Your question should actually be:
How long it would take you to read a book containing x letters.

Reading speed also varies depending on the type of text and difficulty of book.

[Anonymous No.5351427]

>>5346906
I read ~200 pages a day so one and a half days worth of reading.

[Anonymous No.5353642]

>>5347765
can confirm. its like breathing manually for me, if slows me down and i can't not when i think about it.

with that said i comprehend better subvocalising, its a must for philosophy

[Anonymous No.5353653]

This is hilarious. If you read a 300 page book in one day, you are not only reading it improperly, I can induce that you having nothing to do throughout the day and that it is a bad book most likely, if a neet who has nothing to do can read it in one day, or is even able to.

It's probably fantasy.

[Anonymous No.5353658]

>>5346906
Depends on the book, obviously.

(I know this was probably already said a few times, but I just despise the question so much that I just had to add some more useless noise to the thread.)

[Anonymous No.5353695]

>>5347651
it has had literally all of those things for eons, except that they also obsess over their trips and that in place of Zoe they act gross over female musicians in general

[Anonymous No.5353700]

>>5346906
However long I want. Got no deadlines anymore. Graduated years ago, boy.

[Anonymous No.5353708]

>>5346906
It depends on how into it I am. If I am truly focused than maybe four hours give or take.

[Anonymous No.5353715]

>>5353653
>all these implications

[Anonymous No.5353763]

i could read 300 pages in a few hours, but i would only remember the bare minimum of the book

[Anonymous No.5353767]

About 8 hours.

[Anonymous No.5355598]

I tend to read pretty fast, I read Look to the Lady and Black Plumes just traveling to my school twice (2 hours a day). Somehow, I can only read whenever I'm traveling or doing something else, I can't sit in my house and do it. Dunno why

[Anonymous No.5355698]

>>5347942
>that's weird as fuck, my friend
How? I don't have the time to sit up and read until I get bored. It's much more efficient to read a certain amount of chapters daily.

[Anonymous No.5355729]

>>5353653
>It's probably fantasy.

where does this meme stem from? it seems to me that at least 50% of books produced are fantasy, and the most popular books are also fantasy. is this some fedora tipping meme that fantasy is bad?

learning can be fun, sure, but you don't only watch history and discover channel, do you? even those have 'fun' futuristic speculation, and is that not in and of itself also fantasy (syfy)?

I'm pretty sure its bait to say "hurr fantasy" but I'm tired of reading it

[Anonymous No.5355734]

>>5347878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMtzyA0dXU

[Anonymous No.5355741]

a week. ; ;
i wish i were a faster reader

[Anonymous No.5356366]

>>5355734
Why did I watch that?

[Anonymous No.5356696]

>>5355734
>A whole movie full of gross racial mongrels except the one Aryan girl who is paired off with one of the brown-skinned mongrels

What the hell has happened to America...

[Anonymous No.5356714]

>>5355734
This is fucking hot

>tfw no teen mind control dominatrix

[Anonymous No.5356717]

>>5356696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2zlPNGuPbw

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.5356727]

>>5355698
i just can't grasp the idea that you feel like this has to be an efficient process

[Anonymous No.5356738]

>>5356696

[Hawk !0K1gKfMIEc No.5356768]

I read the wikipedia synopsis and if you don't, you're objectively wasting your time and your life.

[Anonymous No.5356787]

>>5356768
I sometimes will attempt an audio book without any synopsis doing my mindless occupation, this is objectively a gamble I admit but has paid off.

[Anonymous No.5356800]

>>5347745
Force yourself to look over words faster than you can say them in your head.
You get the ideas from just seeing the words and not hearing them internally.
http://www.spreeder.com/
This is supposed to be a site for it. Keep ramping up the speed faster than you could.

[Anonymous No.5356808]

>>5348112
Aesthetic experience?

>>5346906
A couple days if I really love it. A week if I like it. Several weeks if I'm not into it. A few hours (4-5) if I have to (but I don't like reading that way).

[Anonymous No.5356810]

A very long time I'm sure by /lit/ standards. I'm typically mid-way through a few books at any one time because I like to read in 30-60 minute intervals. I also stop a lot and think over what I read and then walk around the house for a bit and consider it further. I know a lot of people that like to read whole books in one sitting but when I do that I don't feel like I've gotten much out of the experience by the end. A 300 page book might take me a few days to a week.

[Anonymous No.5356894]

Most of the gals I see at the Barnes & Noble about my age (the only ones that matter as far as I'm concerned) are browsing in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section.

It takes me anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months to finish up a book. Recently I read Treasure Island in three or four days, I think.

I always sub-vocalize, but sometimes will notice I've spent a few pages just seeing scenes, though.

[Anonymous No.5356910]

>>5346956
It's because of your pleb reading techniques.

The proper way of reading is to let your eyes glance over the words trying as fast as you can to get to the next page. After you finish reading the book you go to wikipedia or some other trusted internet site and then learn the plot of the story while parading your knowledge of the book to everyone else.

Only fags actually read

[Anonymous No.5356916]

>>5356910
>The proper way of reading is to let your eyes glance over the words trying as fast as you can to get to the next page. After you finish reading the book you go to wikipedia or some other trusted internet site and then learn the plot of the story while parading your knowledge of the book to everyone else.
>Only fags actually read

[KAWAII MAX 10 No.5356936]

With annotation 3 hours. If its kawaii and moe as fuark, 10, because I gotta fap for 7.

[Anonymous No.5357479]

> tfw you start sub-vocalizing manually
> tfw this transers to your other aspects of life (ex. "breathe in, breathe out, stand up, sit down")

Am I the only one? I hate when this happens.

[Anonymous No.5357485]

>>5355729
Fantasy is shit, that's why.

[Anonymous No.5357499]

>>5346956

[Anonymous No.5357530]

>>5357479
>sub-vocalizing your breathing

Jesus Christ that must be hellish.

[Anonymous No.5357545]

I can read 300 pages of say Dragon Gate Cycle in like two hours, but Moby Dick is taking me a while.

[Anonymous No.5357563]

>>5346950
this