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Anonymous Sun Apr 16 11:59:18 2017 No.9387787 [Reply] [Original]

How long does it take you to read a 400 pages book?
>20 hours

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:00:48 2017 No.9387794 I have no idea. I read because I enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:00:56 2017 No.9387796 Yeah, more or less

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:05:13 2017 No.9387821 >>9387787 unironically like 5 hours.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:06:02 2017 No.9387824 >>9387821 wew lads!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:16:21 2017 No.9387875 >>9387821 Embarrassing

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:28:30 2017 No.9387935 >>9387787 10-15 hours depending on the writing and density.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:41:24 2017 No.9388002

How long is a piece of string?

It would depend heavily on the print. Most modern bookshop paperbacks have huge font and big spacing. Something like Infinite Jest or Charles Dickens has smaller text and shorter line spacing.

Former, maybe 10 hours
Latter, maybe 15 - 20

But I don't know since I don't time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:52:33 2017 No.9388061 >>9387787 A long time, I usually read a chapter silently, at about 1 page per 3 minutes, then go back and read the chapter again aloud, which take slonger

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 12:53:48 2017 No.9388068 >>9387787 Start measuring by words, you pleb.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 13:32:39 2017 No.9388215 >>9387787 2 months sadly

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 13:37:39 2017 No.9388231 well i try to read 50/day before sleep that's an hour or two before bed so 8-16 hours?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 13:59:24 2017 No.9388319 >>9387787 10 to 20 hours. Depends on font and spacing.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 14:11:31 2017 No.9388354

>>9387787
I dont even have a clue. I read until I understand and then move on. Obviously this happens immediately most of the time, but with GR or something I'll spend a few minutes on each page. With philosophy I could spend half an hour on someone like Kant or Heidegger

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 15:22:06 2017 No.9388650 >>9387787 Depends on the book. On average about 3 weeks

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 15:37:07 2017 No.9388715 >>9387787 1.5 years

>>	Anen Sun Apr 16 15:40:57 2017 No.9388726 >>9387787 oh wtf, you guys have been reading the books? i've been singing them, LAAAAA LA LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 15:45:17 2017 No.9388736 it depends on how light the reading is. A 400 page fiction book I could finish in about a week. A 400 page history book would take 2-4 weeks. A 400 page philosophy book would take between 1 month and 3 months.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 15:53:07 2017 No.9388755

It really depends on the book.

But I find I usually read at a pace of about 1 page per 1 minute. Sometimes a bit slower, sometimes even a bit faster if the work is a light read.

So 400 minutes or so = 6-7 hours, might be 4-5 if it is very light, maybe 10 if it is rather heavy.

Sometimes I read a lot and sometimes very little, so the time frame in which I'd read that 7 hours might be a day, a few days or a few weeks or even a month.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:06:11 2017 No.9388804 >>9387935 This,depends on how well it flows and how much I enjoy their writing

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:14:52 2017 No.9388839 >>9387787 I'm too busy smashing pussy in my spare time to read books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:21:20 2017 No.9388851 >>9387787 >reading >books

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:26:48 2017 No.9388867 >>9387787 4-5 hours i think?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:37:31 2017 No.9388906 >>9387787 about 400 days

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:39:14 2017 No.9388916 >>9387787 I mainly read nonfiction so I just skip to the most interesting concepts and chapters. I don't really count how much I've read.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:46:24 2017 No.9388948 >>9388839 I've had enough with your microaggressions against illiterate individuals sir. Also your ignorance is frustrating me so much that I can't continue to smash puss.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:46:58 2017 No.9388950 Fiction: 2 days. Nonfiction: 7 days.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:48:48 2017 No.9388958 File: 53 KB, 657x527, fühlfrosch help helper mit lupe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9388061 Do people really do this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 16:58:52 2017 No.9389002 Depends on the text, usually for fiction I read 1page/minute, 90 seconds if it's not my native language.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:00:45 2017 No.9389008

>>9389002
So you read 60 pages per hour?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:02:00 2017 No.9389014 >>9389008 I'm glad you find it funny.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:34:25 2017 No.9389136 >>9389008 How can you get away with a reply like this

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 17:55:26 2017 No.9389221 >>9389136 >>9389008 Kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:13:03 2017 No.9389299 About one year lel Took me half year to read How to Read a Book

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:16:08 2017 No.9389314 >>9389299 Damn nigga How do you cope?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:22:53 2017 No.9389347 >>9389314 well he gets fed by a nurse through a straw which helps

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:24:45 2017 No.9389357 >>9387821 If you can't summarize the novel, and you barely remember any of it, that's not reading, that'd skimming. Listen to audiobooks instead, you're a lost cause.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:31:27 2017 No.9389391

>>9387787
Depends. If it is interesting in such a way that I end up drowning in my thoughts, it'll take me long, but it will be over in a glimpse. If it is too boring, annoying or feels like a waste of time, I probably won't do it at all.

Stop asking the clock permission to acknowledge time. Time is relative. It's what you experience.

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:43:38 2017 No.9389447

>>9389314
I don't care.. I occasionally read books only when I go out to smoke a cigarette, so about 5 minutes a day. I also pretend that I know philosophy, based on what I read from reviews, wiki, book charts. I do read essays on the internet though, so I can't say I have zero knowledge about whatever I'm interested at the moment

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 18:51:41 2017 No.9389485 >>9387787 it takes me about 400 days to read 20 pages

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 19:04:48 2017 No.9389539 Sorry, I saw your thread a few hours ago but I've only just now finished reading through to post an answer. It takes me about one hour to read a 400 page book

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 16 20:35:30 2017 No.9389876 It depends, if I don't put it down at all it'd probably take me like 5 hours maybe

Anonymous Sun Apr 16 20:50:50 2017 No.9389933

>>9387787
About 10 hours reading sounds about right. Give or take a few hours.
Probably take a week with my current schedule.

I'd be able to recite pretty much everything that happened as well as the thoughts that went through my head as I read. I seriously doubt the quality of "page a minute" readers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 17 05:24:21 2017 No.9391408 >>9389357 nice strawman my man

Anonymous Mon Apr 17 05:37:54 2017 No.9391426

>>9389933
>I seriously doubt the quality of "page a minute" readers.

Have you tried to actually read? I seriously doubt the quality of /lit/ posters, people barely read here, I've been spending here like 15minutes/day in the last couple months and apart from work like 90% of my free time is spent on reading, 1page/minute is nothing special for fiction, it just takes practice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 17 05:43:09 2017 No.9391433 Day and a half Maybe two

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 17 05:47:08 2017 No.9391437 I read moby dick in 12 hours.

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