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Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:08:53 2015 No.6325258 [Reply] [Original]

http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/30hx08/how_many_books_do_you_read_a_year/

>many people reading 100-200 books a year

What's the average here? 20-30?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:13:00 2015 No.6325270 quality > quantity

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:13:51 2015 No.6325273 >>6325258 Only because they're counting comics, manga, and quickly-digested YA.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:13:55 2015 No.6325275 it's two to three and only those because high school requires them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:13:59 2015 No.6325276 >>6325270 What's stopping you from reading 200 good books every year?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:15:49 2015 No.6325282 >>6325258 i want to read at least 50 books this year. >currently only 16 i-i-i am gonna make it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:16:00 2015 No.6325283 >>6325276 1000 pages

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:17:04 2015 No.6325284 >>6325276 Honestly, I doubt you'll absorb a lot from those good books by reading one each two days

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:17:55 2015 No.6325287 >>6325282 sure, why not?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:19:43 2015 No.6325291 >>6325283 >200,000 pages That's 550 pages a day. If you can't afford to read 9 hours a day (and it shouldn't take more than 9 hours to read 550 pages) you shouldn't be on this board.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:20:53 2015 No.6325293 >>6325276 I dont read manga, comic books, Dr. Seuss, or YA anymore.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:21:01 2015 No.6325295 I'd rather focus my attention on the books themselves, rather than gloating about the amount of them I read in a year. If I don't feel like it, i won't push it

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:21:43 2015 No.6325296 >>6325270 This. It takes a bit more time to read the complete works of Plato than some shitty page turner genre fic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:21:52 2015 No.6325299 >>6325293 Dr. Seuss is a great poet, why wouldn't you read him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:23:45 2015 No.6325305 >>6325299 Not that I wouldn't or won't, I just dont want to.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:26:17 2015 No.6325311 File: 55 KB, 600x800, B-2UefXUcAAbRvc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6325258 at least fifty-six i do one a week i'm actually reading max stirner this week also gotta keep up with the memes

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:27:18 2015 No.6325315 >>6325311 >Keeping up with a 3-year old meme

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:31:20 2015 No.6325329

>>6325258
Considerably less.

I think I've finished reading six this year so far. One was a re-read of a great book.

My excuse is that I'm a full time student and full-time worker. I could still possibly fit more reading into my life (like right now), but I'm pretty satisfied.

Also

>Implying I dislike reddit

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:32:44 2015 No.6325333 >>6325284 I depends of how much time you spend reading them. You may be able to read more if we stop shitposting all day. I can't, it's too late for me. Save yourselves while you still can

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:35:28 2015 No.6325344 Reading books is like listening to someone else thinking or talking, why would you brag about hearing a lot of people talking? especially since that the more you hear the more likely they are just spouting nonsense and b/s

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:37:21 2015 No.6325349 I read like 15-20. I also have a job and other interests. Anyone who reads 100 books a year is just doing it so they can say they do. Or it's part of their job/education.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:41:54 2015 No.6325363

>>6325258
some of those people are e-stating. And the others are reading these short little paperbacks that are less than 200 pages. How many are 7-800+ page books?

I think I get maybe 20 on a good year. I will only have time to read all day when I am old and unable to move much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:44:33 2015 No.6325368 >>6325291 I read 10 pages per hour English is not my first language

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:47:39 2015 No.6325375 >>6325258 If you're reading 200 books/year, then you're reading pulp or are only delving surface level into what you read

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:48:03 2015 No.6325376 How Reddit Can Read So Much If They Are So Stupid?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:48:44 2015 No.6325381 >>6325311 STIRNER T I R N E R WELCOME TO THE CLUB, BRO

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 20:52:43 2015 No.6325398 >>6325376 AHAHAHA NICE MEME BRO!!!!!!!! WAY TO STICK IT TO US LOOOL

I Does the Police in Different(...) Fri Mar 27 21:06:45 2015 No.6325447

>>6325276
If for every hour you're reading you are not also spending an hour researching, an hour digesting what you've read, an hour writing, and at least 15 min reading secondary literature then you might as well be reading 200+ burner books a year that leave no lasting impression cause you are most likely a perma-casual and a foreverplebe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:10:17 2015 No.6325465 >>6325258 i read 2 books last year and they were both part of the english course I'm on, my entire knowledge of literature comes from browsing this board

>>	dirtmcgirt !!nBGJxw+LVjP Fri Mar 27 21:15:35 2015 No.6325489 >>6325465 > "knowledge"

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:17:32 2015 No.6325495 >>6325465 >my entire knowledge of literature comes from browsing this board You might as well be reading youtube comments.

>>	instanoodles Fri Mar 27 21:17:41 2015 No.6325496 i read about 10 books a yr maybe mostly short novellas and nonfiction

instanoodles Fri Mar 27 21:20:24 2015 No.6325508

>>6325465
same here and i know a guy who studies philosophy. when we talk /phil/ i always get the impression i have a way better general idea of the history and core concepts of different /phil/ things than him. like he didn't even know about the analytic / continental dichotomy (i'm not saying it's a true or useful one, but after studying phil for 2 yrs you should have heard of it, i guess).

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:30:03 2015 No.6325567 I read about 20 books a year, but I also wouldn't consider reading math books, online blogs and essays 'reading' in that sense

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:36:02 2015 No.6325593 File: 162 KB, 234x283, puppy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I tried reading The Qur'an but it was to differcult to grasp. Thats Reddit for you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:37:57 2015 No.6325598 >>6325258 About 30-40 1/4 of it is poetry and essays 1/4 of it is fiction 1/2 of it is philosophy or theory heavy non-fiction

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:39:51 2015 No.6325610

>tfw heavily involved in uni's social life and have no time to read anymore

My 15 minute pooping periods are the only time I can crack open anything. I've spent two months working my way through All Quiet On The Western Front. You guys are lucky as fuck. Cherish your reading time bros. Not all of us are lucky to have no friends and live with our parents.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:41:13 2015 No.6325618 >>6325610 >crypto calling us losers for reading

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:43:53 2015 No.6325628 I've already read 30-40 this year, so 200 or so seems likely

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:46:22 2015 No.6325641 >>6325628 Sorry, at that rate you won't even hit 170.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:47:16 2015 No.6325648 >>6325258 Counting how many books you read is a sign of degeneracy. It's not a race.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:48:55 2015 No.6325661 >>6325641 I probably will, actually. the first couple months were slow but I've been reading a solid book a day for a few weeks now

>>	instanoodles Fri Mar 27 21:51:03 2015 No.6325674 >>6325661 how the fuck does anyone even do this. are you neet? do you only read books with <100 pages?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:55:46 2015 No.6325706 >>6325648 >its not a race This is something you would hear in elementary school when you outperformed another kid. Personally, at least, I keep track of what I've read for organizational purposes.

>>	instanoodles Fri Mar 27 22:05:00 2015 No.6325761 File: 160 KB, 317x330, Screen Shot 2015-03-28 at 03.04.40.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6325706 >Personally, at least, I keep track of what I've read for organizational purposes. >this makes it a race

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:06:46 2015 No.6325773 >>6325674 I work 40 hours a week at a job that gives me 4-5 hours of reading time a day

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:18:31 2015 No.6325815 >>6325333 I go through phases where I might read a book a day for a few weeks. there is a degree to which, when you read a whole bunch in quick succession, the experiences start to bleed together and lose their emotional significance.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:39:09 2015 No.6326297 >>6325773 What job?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:40:08 2015 No.6326301 >>6325258 I go with 100-200 too. But I'm in academia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:45:56 2015 No.6326318 >>6326297 security guard

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:49:33 2015 No.6326324 >>6326297 Gay prostitute

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:11:16 2015 No.6326395 3-5

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:18:50 2015 No.6326412 >>6325398 >>6325398 >US >leleleele Go back to r/books you cuckhold loser

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:26:56 2015 No.6326431 >>6325761 >this makes it a race wat

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:29:17 2015 No.6326432 Id rather read good book and enjoy them then binge read

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:36:56 2015 No.6326455 i probably read around 100 a year. and that's not even trying.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 02:50:33 2015 No.6326482 >>6325815 When I read large books, 500+ pages, sometimes I'll even take break days to digest the information and keep it from running together. Like with the bible I have taken several days where I don't read on. I'll take notes and review.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 03:00:07 2015 No.6326496 >>6325291 >implying anyone, ANYONE here reads that much Nice try kiddo

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 03:12:11 2015 No.6326521 Somewhere between 50 and 100. Pretty much consists of literature, philosophy, and STEM books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 09:17:30 2015 No.6327339 File: 257 KB, 434x440, 142680770.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've dropped more books than I've read this year.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 09:27:27 2015 No.6327363 What does reading a book do for you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 09:33:09 2015 No.6327373 >>6327363 Gives you something to brag about online.

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