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7986218 No.7986218 [Reply] [Original]

Who are these people on goodreads with 1,2,3k books read? Is that even possible

>> No.7986224

1. Why do you care ?
2. Either e-stats or full of shitty/short books

>> No.7986233

Inb4 Sebastian

>> No.7986257

>>7986233
Who is sebastian?

>> No.7986268

>>7986257
Some guy fucking alot of trannies.

>> No.7986274

>>7986268
ok. What does that got to do with my topic?

>> No.7986275

>>7986218
Of course it is. Not everyone there is a teenager. When you hit your 30s, it's entirely possible to have read a thousand books, even if you're not much of a reader. I'll probably be nearing 1.5k by 30.

>> No.7986285

>>7986257

He spams GoodReads threads every now and again. 9 times out of 10 if there's a GoodReads thread on /lit/, Sebastian made it.

So /lit/ gives him grief for it.

>> No.7986289

>>7986275
let's say you read one book every week. That's feels like a pretty good estimate if you are an avid reader since some books takes less than that and sometimes life gets in the way so it makes up.

4 x 12 = 48 books a year which makes 480 books every ten years. By every generous estimate you can't have read 2k books by 30

>> No.7986304

>>7986289
I said people will have read a thousand, not two thousand, by their thirties. Assuming they don't count children's books and have read since 10, that's 50 books a year. Considering it's a site specifically for tracking reading, you can assume most people there are "readers." So, that's not unreasonable.

Reading is part of my career, so I read more than most people do. I have a lot of editors, publishers and book reviewers on my Goodreads, and they read upwards of at least 100 books a year. When it's that big a part of your life, you'll naturally read more.

>> No.7986317

>>7986289
>>7986304
Also, a lot of people get a big numbers boost during grad school, where they're necessarily reading several dozen books a semester on top of books for their own research.

>> No.7986319

>>7986304
I'm just trying to make sense of it. I guess two books a week isn't that outrageous but still it seems a tiny bit far-fetched. Unless all the books you read are generally 200-300 pages long. I wouldn't also put it past people preferring short books to inflate their libraries

>> No.7986327

>>7986319
There are a lot of hours in the day, anon. And most books /are/ 200-300 pages long; there really aren't that many doorstoppers. Monographs are almost invariably that length, or a little over 300.

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7986334

>>7986327
>tfw you could read far more if you didnt have video game and 4chin addiction

>> No.7986450

I sometimes read 10-15 hours a day with around 100pages/hour, I am 28 and have read over a thousand books, so it's possible.

>> No.7986465

>>7986450

Can you read War and Peace in one day?

>> No.7986467

I think Bloom said in an interview once that he's read around 100k books in his lifetime. So yeah, definitely possible.

>> No.7986485

>>7986285
He actually has a decent taste though.

>> No.7986491

>>7986218

I read ~100 a year. I'll be at 1k before I'm 25.

Average page count in the area of 350-450.

Cut back on shitposting and read more.

>> No.7986514

>>7986224
Second point is correct, some people just get very excited about quantity over quality and so their reading material barely passes 100 pages.

>> No.7986540

>>7986514
That doesn't mean the book is bad though.

Plato's Apology is pretty short, and genial

>> No.7986595

>>7986218
If you often read light, short and fast-paced genre books (thrillers, mysteries, romance novels) it'd be easy to get to these kinds of totals in half a decade or so. Comics? Even faster. If you had no budget constraint you could probably read 250 or 300 graphic novels per year no problem.

I started keeping track of the books I've read in 2008. Since then I've read 560 titles. Most of them are full size novels, with the occasional doorstop -- read War and Peace last year and loved it, took me a whole month though. If I counted the books I'd read before then (in college and HS and younger) the total would probably amount to like 1000 books.

I hate Goodreads though.

>> No.7986876

>>7986467
He's probably lying desu

>> No.7986880

>board about reading
>expresses suspicion/skepticism/awe that people can read 1k+ books

it's already known, but shit like this just makes it even more obvious that this board is filled with pseuds

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7986886

Cut out video games, television, and any movies except really fucking good ones.

I read 3 hours every day minimum. I average a book every two days. My goal this year is 250 books, which I'll probably get close to.

Seriously everyone who birches about it being impossible to read more than a book a week never actually fucking reads. A book a week is like an hour a day of reading, maybe less.

>> No.7986900

>>7986224
>>7986514
Reading 2-300 page books in 2 days is simple if you you know...read

>> No.7986916

>>7986465
Not him but I read A Little Life and Brief HIstory of Seven Killings last year in three days, and thats 1800 pages.

>>7986224
>>7986514
Are full of shit, as if you are reading a good (or in a little lifes case, somewhat engaging out of morbid curiosity) you read way faster.

A lot of kids here that read canon stuff because they should read less than people who are obviously reading stuff they like. Like Sebastian

>> No.7986923

It's goodreads so you can assume they're reading a lot of shit that's not even worth the paper it's printed on.

>> No.7986934

>>7986540
Most of the NYRB Classics are less than 400 pages, people who equate size with quality are just as guilty as >>7986514 suggests.

>> No.7986939

>>7986923
You can see their lists tho. The people with 200+ books in goodreads threads are usually reading outside the /lit/ hs reading list +memes comfort zone

>> No.7986948

>>7986886
>A book a week is like an hour a day of reading, maybe less.
Less, I'm at 26 this year and I read for like 30 min a night before bed and in the tub