How does /lit/ get through so many books so quickly?

simple.

They lie about what they read.

It's easy. Never leave the house.

Who the fuck is /lit/?
Anyway he probably doesn't reread the books so don't pay attention to him.

It's easy if your only hobby is reading.

A fresh hot cup of black coffee always helps!

>>8515623
>read 20-100 pages a day
>literally any book will go by quickly
??

>>8515631
sounds like the most plausible explanation.
using copy pasta and such in order to justify their /lit/ cred.

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>>8515623

>>8515681
And here I thought the age of TV as the main American pastime activity and symbol of common ignorance was over.

Autism.

>>8515681
By eliminating other time consuming activities, with the desired result being that reading becomes your main or only hobby, as someone mentioned earlier. My mom wouldn't pay for cable TV when we lived out in farm country and the nearest source of entertainment was a library. Once you cut down on things like TV, gaming, and general browsing you'll have more time for it.

>>8515691
lots of older people need to die first

>>8515681
Watching live television is like madly grabbing handfuls of time at throwing them out the window of a speeding car.

>>8515623
Division of Labour.

I can makes like 12 lbs of pins a day now.

>>8515623
audio books.
>so many books
/lit/ talks about same 100 books over and over and most of it they read 10 years ago.

>>8515681
How do people watch 4 hours of tv a day? Do they not have jobs? What the fuck? I don't have 4 hours of free time a day. I'm lucky to be able to read during my commute, but other than that I have about 2-3 hours that aren't taken up by work, cooking, eating or sleeping. I spend about an hour a day writing and the rest is largely shitposting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7Wt8lDK0s

>>8515971
it's funny because this actually is how most of /lit/ "reads"
>lol I watched some excerpts of teh judge on youtube
>i read BM

/lit/ is one mass psychic gestalt of the collective superegos of young people who know just enough about intellectual smartypants culture that they know they want to be part of it, but also they are constantly aware that they suck and probably won't make it

Everything here is "good intentions" at best, a fuckton of undergrads recommending stuff they haven't read or have only read a little bit of, because their future idealized self is the one posting, and of course he's read their entire backlog

It's not really a bad thing

>>8515623
By reading brief criticisms and plot summaries on Wikipedia.

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>>8516217

Here it is because there are about 10x as many people as you think and so someone has probably read the book but if you under estimated numbers here you think they are all better read than they are.

>>8515966
Notice this is an average. Many people binge watch on the weekends; time spent on weekdays could be more reasonable.

>>8516423
Do people not get headaches from all that tv at a time?

I don't get the "binge-watch" thing

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>>8515623
I work in a lab and do repetitive actions all day. I spend the whole time listening to audiobooks. Idgaf if that's cheating because I have to do something to pass the endless hours in this white windowless room.

>>8515623

I don't waste my time with novels.

I read my books at 1.6x speed, personally.

>>8515971
I have a friend who slept with that guy. He apparently roars when he cums

I don't get through books that quickly, I tend to struggle with reading 30 a year. Still I can say that going to bed half an hour earlier and reading before sleeping helped a lot. I also tend to read on the bus and while waiting for class.

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Anyone else here just listen to audiobooks all day and then buy physical copies and put them on your shelves?

>>8515623
I don't. I take a month to read a book because I've got so many other things to do.

I just come on here to shitpost occasionally.

>>8516217
good post
>>8516390
average age here is 20-21 dude, what does that indicate

>>8515623
Wrong premise.
There are no good answers for bad questions

>>8515971

this is pure comedy!

>>8517451
Well you better buy them used so people think you've read them. Personally I'm thinking about buying a bunch of used philosophy books in bad condition and then reading the summaries on Wikipedia.

Question:
When you read a collection, do you count the collection as one book or many?

>>8516707

It lets you forget you're alive

>>8515668
This. I kinda beat myself up if I don't hit 100. But if I don't like a book (which is the case right now with Cormac's "The Crossing", I can only do 50ish. A good book I'll read 100+ a day. Just a student here.

>>8515623
Nobody reads anything here.

Want books to discuss? (Actual discussion, not flinging shit at anyone who disagrees with you) Go to reddit

And yes this is obvious bait. But it's also the truth. Now be a good little girl and give me (you)

>>8518211

I wish I was a good little girl, so here's a (you) for me to have a random stranger ironically call me one.

>>8517458
it indicates you are 20-21 and as oblivious as you imply

>>8518219
you wish you were, not was
if it were was then you would only regret when you weren't before

>>8515623
read 200 pages a day like me

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>>8515681
>live tv

I don't have a job and my wpm is 4x faster than the average, on a bad day, because literature is my life and always has been. I'll read about 20 books in a month then I'll take a break and spend a few weeks drinking and watching shit.

>>8516134
>citation needed

>>8515633
This. I've only left the house a few times so far in 2016. It's a sad, lonely, pathetic life, and no one who knows me has any respect for me, but I do get to read more than most people.

>>8518854

Don't you get stir crazy?

>>8518854
>only left the house a few times
I get you might be exaggerating but you know what, there's nothing pathetic about it. Once you become comfortable with having minimal social interaction, it's not sad but peaceful. I used to feel awful for not socializing, but that's just another spook of society. I'm happy with having a short conversation in a check out aisle each week. Interacting with people regularly is exhausting.

>>8515697
IT'S BEEN ALMOST 24 HOURS! WHY HAS NO ONE RESPONDED TO ME YET?!

>>8518894
>I used to feel awful for not socializing, but that's just another spook of society
Sorry but it isn't. Maybe you're an outlier (because there are outliers) but lack of socialisation is physically unhealthy, there's plenty of scientific evidence for it if you want to look it up.

Time management.

>>8516717
>he fell for the STEM meme

haha wow I hope you get paid well

>>8518943
But as long as I have the Internet why would I need to talk to people outside? And I could see how it might be mentally unhealthy, but physically..?

>reading
>one
>word
>at
>a
>time
>like
>a
>child

>>8518988
speed readers are shit fucks that can't even tell you what happened on the last page they read.

>>8518994
Nevermind plot.

What about those beautiful observations that just get glanced over... What about prose, cadence, metre, etc? It's all lost when speedreading.

Speedreading has to be one of the most detrimental memes.

>>8519097
yep. I almost fell for the "subvocalizing is bad and holds you back" meme. All good readers do it. It improves comprehension and people can still reach great speeds.

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-redo/

>>8519125
wow

speedreading utterly blown the fuck out.

Harold Bloom is a lying JEW

>>8518891
Sometimes, but then I remind myself of the only alternative paths available to me. And as >>8518894 said, it's peaceful.

>>8518959
I don't but at least I don't deal with customers.

>>8515919
Underrated post

>>8515623
by being NEET and reading all day

>>8515631
If you read an hour before bed or more you plough through books

>>8518197
younger people's brains work quicker, so don't beat yourself up but it should be easier for a student.

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>>8518231

>>8522113
>passive-aggressive gif of old lady
Even before I read what this was in response to, I could tell you were a girl and I wholeheartedly agree with the other guy.

Jokes on you OP, I'm actually really slow.

>>8515623
I read slowly but it is not hard to get through a lot if you just actually read. Read 15 pages everyday and you'll finish a 450 page book every month. Some days you'll do way more too. The problem is lots of people go weeks without reading.

Also this>>8515681
Plus I've been into reading for like 10 years.

>>8515971
This actually isn't bad advise. This method is commonly taught for reading long texts.

>>8522152
I meant advice.

>>8518967
There's a strong connection between "mental" issues and physical ones, largely because many mental issues are in fact physical (e. g. chemical, not to mention the still only partly understood but apparently linked effects of mood on bodily health.) This isn't pseudoscience, it's real and evidence-based, and a real concern.

You should look up the symptoms of depression, and seek some care if you suspect you may be vulnerable to or have it. Even if you are a person who legitimately thrives in the absence of human contact, you should make some effort to see other people in a structured environment for your own mental health.

It can be dangerously easy to ignore or misunderstand serious mental and physical health risks and issues without regular contact with others. At the absolute very least, please see a physician for yearly checkups and see a dentist regularly- dental health can have many implications for your general health, as well as quality of life.

And get some sun, or at least drink milk regularly, especially if you're female. Osteoporosis is a bitch, and you get old faster than you think.

>>8515971
that greenscreen is more fake than Hillary's last speech

>>8515971
While I appreciate the sentiment,

>Books are full of words!
>You don't have time to read all those damn WORDS

100 pages a day is entirely reasonable, it's 2-3 hours depending on what kind of book. You should have a goal of a book a week at least.

>>8516217
that's not what superego means

>>8522222
nice numbers

but some books are hard too and its best to subvocalize and take your time

>>8522222
Quints confirms.

>>8522227
I subvocalize and I average around 50 an hour. It's not hard and I'm not pushing it. It just just takes focus, a comfy chair, and a cup of tea or whatever your poison is.

>>8522222
checked

but it entirely depends on your reading material.

>>8522173
it is pseudoscience; it assumes that abnormality is illness, and there will always be abnormalities. abnormality isn't de facto illness. if it were, pharmas profits would be representative of a massive underselling of illness, because even normals are not that normative you would have to label them healthy.
forced isolation is probably bad. choosing isolation isn't necessarily anything. milk won't do shit if you're not getting natural sunlight, and shouldn't be recommended as an alternative. lifting weights is the best to prevent osteo problems, and osteo problems aren't in any way linked with problems of isolation to the best of my knowledge. it's dangerously easy to pretend you're not doing pseudoscience when you think advice worthy of jezebel is science/medicine.

>>8515919
Holy... I want more,,,

>>8522222
>100 pages a day is entirely reasonable
Too big of a generalization even just considering font size, margins and so on. I agree with the message though; read 2-3 hours in a day and you'll finish lots of books.

>>8522222
>You should have a goal of a book a week at least

These fucking plebs, I swear