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How many pages do you typically read a day?

>> No.8871601

These books are bullshit and have have super dense and small print.

I've read maybe 30 pages today over a 4 hour period.

>> No.8871603

>>8871595
0

>> No.8871607

Fuggin i dont know. 100 pages maybe. Completely depends on what I am reading.

>> No.8871615

>>8871603
This

>> No.8871619

>>8871595

60

>> No.8871623

>>8871615
Why are you here?

>> No.8871632

>>8871623
To drop some red pills

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>>8871632

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>>8871623
bored with my angsty life

>> No.8871643

>>8871642
I'm tired of seeking this stupid fucking poster POSTED everywhere. Fuck off!

>> No.8871647

Reading crime and punishment at about 35 pages an hour

Im not a very experienced reader but fierce fuck i feel like i should be riding the short bus at this pace

>> No.8871649

>>8871595
I've seen this gecko a hundred times and JUST NOW I realized that it's a replica of William H Gass

>> No.8871654

>>8871649
>gecko
Lol

>> No.8871655

Probably around three or four. I can't concentrate enough to read more than that at once.

>> No.8871656

>>8871649
>gecko

>> No.8871670

>>8871655
That's 164 days to read Crime and punishment, 75 days for Lolita.


I read mainly 60 pages a day.

>> No.8871671

>>8871655
Have you considered consulting a doctor about the possibility of having ADD

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>>8871643
make me, nerd

>> No.8871677

>>8871673
I can't make you unfortunately. I can only yell at you. please, stop posting it.

>> No.8871680

Been reading 60 pages of W&P per day and am about to finish. It has taken about 25 days at this speed.

60 pages per day gets you through most average sized books in a week. I usually do 60 per day and if its less than 90 on the last day of reading the book I just finish it off.

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>>8871677
ok, sorry.

>> No.8871689

>>8871687
It's fine :-)

>> No.8871693

>>8871689
>>8871687
Okay now kiss.

>> No.8871695

Infinite Jest is 1000 pages in a moderately sized print book. My goal is 150 pages starting 5 minutes from now.. I intend to finish it in about a week.

think I can do it?

>> No.8871703

>>8871695
Its definitely possible if you are autistic enough

>> No.8871719

only a fraction of what I write
I know that sounds bad but its very rare for me to find an engaging work nowadays
I mostly just read for reference on a particular topic or style I want to learn more about

>> No.8871720

>>8871595
>How many pages do you typically read a day?

~750

>> No.8871723 [DELETED] 

>>8871693
get lost, degenerate

>> No.8871738

30-50 Pages

>> No.8871757

>>8871720
So you do nothing but read?

>> No.8871775

>>8871595
That depends. How many pages is your typical 4chan thread? :^)

>> No.8871777

>>8871720

Sebastian?

>> No.8871778

>>8871623
Mostly because I am a very picky reader and I believe I have read everything I want to read with half of it being angsty gloomy shit like Kafka and the other half being postmodern experimentation with form like Calvino. I am just here to shitpost and talk about books I've read or have some cursory knowledge of

>> No.8871785

>>8871670
Yeah, it's why I tend not to read longer works. I mostly focus on essays and short stories. At the rate I rate and my tendency to skip reading some days, I'd probably forget too many details about the beginning of a books to make sense of the rest of it.

>>8871671
I did when I was in high school. Doctor said I was too old and that they already would have caught it.

>> No.8871864

>>8871671
But anon, that's a fake disorder. Are you telling me that you believe the psycolgy lies?

>> No.8871879

>>8871595
100

>> No.8871881

I read a book a day, sometimes I'll read a short story or play after I read my book for the day.

>> No.8871979

>>8871595
Sometimes I'll read 200, sometimea I'll read none. Depends on how much free time I have/mood I'm in. Sometimes I just prefer to have a nice dinner out. And sometimes I'll decide to watch a movie. Its all pleasure the same, just delivered by different media.

>> No.8871994

>>8871695
>infinite jest
Don't lie to yourself you won't read the whole thing

>> No.8871997

>>8871595
None of your goddamn business, frogboy.

>38 replies
You suck.

>> No.8872001

Somewhere between 100-180 on weekdays, depending on the book.
I usually don't read on the weekends.

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79,3

>> No.8872099

>>8871994
I'm 40 pages in and like it so far. I didn't understand the ghetto chapter though. The chapter about the guy waiting for his weed was great, I hope there are more like it.

>> No.8872103

>>8871595
The worse I feel the more I read. Ranges from like 40 to 100.

>> No.8872164

>>8871647
I clock about the same when I read Dostoyevsky, maybe even slightly less. Complex writing requires a slower pace to fully comprehend it, it's not like you're reading the morning newspaper.

>> No.8872173

Read 240 pages of War and Peace yesterday because I wanted to finish before Christmas.

>> No.8872307

>>8872164
but 35 pages per hour is a lot, isn't it?

>> No.8872324

I read more pages of 4chan than I do of books and I don't know how to stop

>> No.8872329

>>8871595
minimum of 10 on days when I'm busy or don't feel much like reading

usually around 50 I guess, some days I'll go up to like 100 though.

>> No.8872347

I usually see how many days it'll take to finish (3, 5, 7, 10 are the most common goals) and aim to read the required number of pages

inb4 autism

>> No.8872350

>>8872329

what i always do when I look at a new book

1. see what page it starts on

2. see how many pages the book is (if its 350 but the book starts on page 3, i make a mental note that there are really 348 pages)

3. i divide the number by 10 (348/10 = 34.8) or 7 or something and aim to read that many pages

>> No.8872360

About 100-150 in normal days. Since I'm on vacation, I'm reading 100 more.

I have read 320 pages yesterday. It feels as if I had leveled up.

>> No.8872361

25 minimum, usually 60

>> No.8872362

>>8871687
that was surprisingly sweet.

>> No.8872532

Depending on the difficulty of the text, I can read anywhere from 120 pages per hour (easy) down to like 40.

>> No.8872539

0-30
been working a lot lately

>> No.8872546

>>8872307
it's fine.

>> No.8872547

about 60-80.

in my worst days i read 20, in my best 100-120.

>> No.8872557

>25 on the journey to work
>10-25 on a PDF version when I should be working depending on how busy I am
>20 on the journey home
>10 before bed

Usually around 60, on a weekend probably about 20 though.

>> No.8872618

I prefer a time metric instead of pages.
2 hours minimum, usually more during weekends. Sometimes it's 100 pages, sometimes it's 20 when I'm reading something asscrunchingly complex, sometimes it's 5 when I'm reading in foreign languages (I'm trying to achieve reading fluency in at least 8)

>> No.8872782

>>8872350
autism

>> No.8872821

>>8871595
Fitty

>> No.8872829

>>8871778
>Kafka
>angsty, gloomy
Is there some grimdark version of Metamorphosis that I don't know about?

>> No.8872833

>>8872618
congratulations, you're a meme

>> No.8873284

depends on what i am reading

in a slow day, ~30
in a typical day, ~50
in a good day, ~90

>> No.8873290

>>8871595
20-30 if I'm working
50-60 on days off
then again, depends on the book

>> No.8873292

>>8872018
That's gorgeous. Where is that? Italy?

>> No.8873293

about 70 on a bad day
20-300 on a good day

>> No.8873296

>>8873292
Yep:)

>> No.8873307

>>8872350
Sort of this. I basically aim to read a book per week, which sets a comfortable rate for 95% of literature. If I finish early, say on friday, I spend the weekend not reading just to keep with the discipline, or read short stories which do not count. For extra long works (800+ pages) I give myself two weeks

>> No.8873309

>>8871595
-77

>> No.8873489

All depends on thw book pham
When I read pynchon it takes like an hour to read 15 pages, but when I'm reading game of thrones, I can do triple that easy.

>> No.8873505

I use the catalogue

>> No.8873515

Takes me 4-5 hours to read 100 pages a day. I finished 53 books this year but took a break since I exhausted myself with the pace.

People think they're slow when half my day goes to a book.

>> No.8873542

I can't read while commuting because I just fall asleep if I'm sitting, can't help it, fuck this really so usually I'm listening to history podcasts and things like that, that keeps me awake.
I read 20-30 at least while working and during breaks and ~50 after work.
On weekends sometimes all I do is read so a fuckload I guess.

>> No.8874629

>>8871595
Usually I read chapters fully at a time.

Lets say it is around 40 a day if I read two chapters with an average of 20 pages of average font and page size.

>> No.8874638

>>8871655
>>8871785
Reading isn't for you kid.

Not kidding, you are wasting your time if that is the best you can do. Play to your strong points.

>> No.8874701

I've read about 60, could do more but getting close to the end and I will keep it for tomorrow

>> No.8874771

>>8871595
Anywhere between zero and none at all

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>>8872350

I do exactly this.

>> No.8875484

>>8871601
I'm reading The Recognitions which also has really small print. It takes me at least 2 minutes - usually 3 - to read a single page.

>> No.8875589

just refresh the front

>> No.8875592

>>8871595
0

>> No.8875593

>>8871595
Hundreds, if not thousands.

>> No.8875658

>>8871595
25-30 pages if I'm busy.
100-150 pages if I'm not busy.

Today I read 146 pages of Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

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>>8871632
>reading no books, maybe only online articles
>being remotely "woke" as you would say
You can't be this entitled... can you?

>> No.8877462

Depends on the book in question.

If it's sub 200 pages book, I'll finish it in a day or two.

Easy = 70+ pages an hour
Medium = 50 pages an hour
Hard = 20-40 pages an hour

>> No.8877584

I read all the time, but I'm just a slow reader. Carpenter's Gothic took me like 4 or 5 days to read, even with 2+ hrs reading a day. I also take extensive annotations which may be part of the reason.