How many books do you read a week? A month? How long does it

depends on how depressed I am.

When I'm doing good, I can read about 1000 pages in, say, 4 days, if I read 10 hours a day.

On a bad day, I can't read shit. Nothing.

On average, I read about 4 hours a day.

>>9256739
Haven't been doing too good lately, so it has been around 30-50 pages a day for a month.

>>9256812
>tfw this is a good amount for me

>>9256758
>4 hours a day.

That seems like a really high amount. I manage one maybe 2. I think I'll try 4 for a week and see how it goes.

book every day or ever other. Not sure why some get so distracted. Something like the Jester would take me three or four, though

I try to read 100 pages a day when I read but I usually average about 500-600 a week.

Usually when I'm focused I'll read 3-4 hours a day.

>>9256739
that pic lacks a frame where hes jacking it to anime traps

>>9256758
>4 hours a day

I can barely read for 30 minutes before being distracted

fuck

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I simply fucking hate all the shit that society and pseudo intellectuals say I should do.

I don't give a shit about gigantic boring as fuck paid by the word Victorian novels or trivial as fuck of their time ranting Russian novels or motivational speaker tier edgy philosophers who would never get away with their shit today by the same pseuds who praise them so much. And I can't believe that late 20th century PoMo has managed to be worse than all that came before, but I'm supposed to worship that as well.

This isn't 800 AD anymore. The pseuds pretend that wanking over the Greeks and Bible is 95 % of what an intellectual is. They never acknowledge anything that isn't academised. They note STEM as a trivial footnote while using it as a launching pad for their own contemporary flailing about within the infinitely large unfalsifiable space of ideas.

I don't care about psychology, macroeconomics, psychiatry, the Education system, wars in far away places, and lots of other stuff.

Life truly does end after university. Every fucking issue is sent through the prism of universities these days. Humanities and social sciences are all bullshit and they try to monopolise so much common sense and twist it. Of course you can't say that and /lit/ will defend them.

I am not entertained by TV shows, video games, or movies any more. Novels are mostly narcissistic barely disguised memoirs.

The working world is 1 % intelligence and 99 % a test of normieness.

Women have lives on easy mode and only go for Chads. People actively hate introverts. University prestige is the main factor for success in life. Most of culture is now too ephemeral to have any significance at all. Travelling is the new alternative to reading big books. Coffee is wagie fuel. I lift heavy weights but I can admit it's a sign of betaness. Working is horrific.

You need so many answers, OP.

When I'm at school, I probably read 60-70 pages a day, but I'm a lit/phil major. Plus I don't find time to do all my readings, I optimize the most important ones.

During the summer I try to get a solid 100, though some days I don't read at all.

>>9257747
Go back to plebbit, edgyteen.

>>9257866
Do you like being a lit/phil major?

>>9257747
Just get it over with and kys yourself already

>>9257747
If you hate it so much, do something about. Whining doesn't accomplish anything other than making yourself feel better.

>>9257910
no

>>9257956
Why not, friendo?

>>9257974
reading is for fags

Takes 4-5 hours for 100 pages, I used to read 100 a day, last year I did 55 books in 9 months, it became depressing when I was unable to write though because of self doubt so I Stopped overall.

>>9257981
you dare

>>9257747
>Novels are mostly narcissistic barely disguised memoirs.

>disguises his narcissistic rant blaming his depression everything but himeslf as general observations about the world

hmm, what did he mean

I read about 100 pages each day. Right now I'm reading all of Murakami's books in English, and then I'll finish up Ellis' Glamorama and Pynchon's Against the Day.

Depends on the quality and length of the book. If it's something short, I'm more inclined to knock it out in a day or two.

I have to wait for something to take my interest before starting something new, but if I don't then start it right away I won't at all. This means I like a stacked bookshelf. I normally just bulk buy books on eBay once every couple of months. Sometimes it will be the same day, sometimes it will be a month.

I started 1984 today but to be honest I'm thoroughly unimpressed so far. It's something I do want to continue, but I'm not compelled to read chapter after chapter. I read the first two and then set it down to watch the football. I'll probably read another chapter before bed.

>>9258007
Don't get your hopes up with 1984. The way it's hyped in pop culture comes from people who have probably never read it. Although it has good ideas, Orwell's writing style makes it a complete snoozefest.

If you want something that reads well and has similar ideas, try Max Barry's Lexicon.

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>can only read 20 pages a day

>>9258012
>Although it has good ideas, Orwell's writing style makes it a complete snoozefest.

This. Orwell was an essayist first and foremost

It seems most of you count in pages per day, I suppose that is a better metric.

>>9258007

1984 is an average young adult novel at best. Put it down and get The Wanting Seed. Its the same theme, but by the guy who wrote A Clockwork Orange and its great.

>>9258046
I count syllables.

>>9258020
Hey, at least you're reading.

>>9256739
OP image is me without the crying and instead of a frown it's happy all day

>>9256739
I read a book every one or two months, around 30 to 70 pages per day (depends how sophisticated it is) and have sometimes one to three day pauses when reading a book. Two hours a day on average. 400 hundred pages would take two weeks (or longer if I'm not so hooked; 1000+ pages around four to five weeks.

I really want to read longer literature, but I don't read to fast and prefer books at 200-400 mark.
What do? I really want to read Atlas Shrugged, the longest I've read are Moby Dick and C+P, but they both took a while.

i never read
books are gay

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>>9257747
>Women have lives on easy mode and only go for Chads.

>actually believing this

Lol yes, all women are 10/10 hottie socialites who just do nothing and fuck Chad. Go to your local shitty food joint, see how many women work there you sheltered brat.

Despite being a self-indulgent bore (the kind you supposedly hate i.e. yourself), you indirectly realized that contemporary life under late capitalism is garbage! Congratulations. Now why don't you actually try to comprehend this fact instead of projecting your sexual frustrations onto it.

>>9258427
Guess what. All of those women have Beta orbiters ready to spend thousands on them. Women's life is complete easy mode.

My goodreads account indicate that I read 19 books since the beginning of the year. But that is highly unusual given that I'm unemployed and looking for work.

I would say
>50-600 pages/wk
>one week for a 400 page book
>1000, around 3 months
>between 1h and 3h

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takes me like 2 hours to read 20 pages

I'm a failure aren't I /lit/

I'll never be smart

i usually read about 10 pages minimum. get to 50 on a good day, but i can do 100 if i push myself.

does anyone have tips to increase how much im reading?

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>>9258440
Yeah, you gotta envy especially those German women.

>>9258452
aaddddeerraallll

>>9257747
God, I almost agree on everything you've written, and then most of your last paragraph was utter garbage. Well , we can have a nice chat if you want, you seem quite interesting, and I hope it isnt only surface-wise.

>>9258452
>does anyone have tips to increase how much im reading
I'm not sure if this will help you but in my case I can't concentrate properly while at home, so I decided to read outside. And by outside I mean at a library. It's comfy and I can stay extremely focused for hours. All I do is go outside for short cigarette breaks once in a while.

>>9256758
10 hours a day is fucking impressive. But only 250 pages in that amount of time? Is your slow reading an optional tactics? If so, tell me more about that.

>>9258514
>250 pages in 10 hours is slow reading
Not that anon but it really depends on what you're reading... for instance, 25 pages/hour of Kant would be a m a z i n g

>>9258514
I would say that's pretty average speed

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>>9257747
Get a load of this guy.
But seriously I hear ya, breh.

60 books so far this year
4-5 hours reading a day

>>9256739
>How many books do you read a week? A month?
1/mo
>How long does it take you read say, a 400 page book?
18 hours I'd say.
I'm a slow reader and audiobooks aren't an option for me (I can't follow fiction in audiobooks)

>>9257747
PoMo?

>>9258440
No they don't, you're utterly delusional.

>>9258608
Yes they fucking do. There's no such thing as a lonely woman unless she has no vagina or something. Every woman has at least two guys that want to fuck her and would husbando her instantly. But she's too busy trying to grab Chad cock.

>>9258533
Yes but when we usually say or average speed is mostly normal fiction books, since one doesn't read philosophy like a fiction book, that is, going from the first-line to the last in full non-stop mode.

>>9258562
Are you serious or trolling? Genuine question.

>>9258626
>Are you serious or trolling? Genuine question.

Idk, 25 pages in an hour for literary fiction sounds about average to me. Maybe I'm just a slow reader, but I assume I'm not alone in wanting to reread nice prose passages as I go through

>>9256739
>How many books per week
anywhere between none and three, depending on how busy I am
>a month?
Extrapolate from previous answer
>400 pages
I've been known to knock that out in a day or two if i'm really interested in the book,
>1000 pages
If i'm working on a book that big I try to read as much of it on one go as possible, then chip away at the rest chapter by chapter because the fact of the matter is that if your book has a thousand pages, you've got a lot of unnecessary shit in there and you should have edited more.
>How many hours?
I never really count in hours. If I had to guess, somewhere around 4 on average between classes.


Why would you "need" these answers?

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>>9257747
Nice copi, Brad.

>>9258616
Project harder faggot. Many women are lonely all the time, you just don't hear about them because they're invisible to you.

>>9258649
No woman is invisible to anybody. If they are lonely it's because they are choosing to be lonely.

>>9258654
Walk around the city and see how many blank faces you see, men and women included. You're conflating your presumably shitty social position with your sexual inadequacy, and then are angry when women don't give you what is "owed" to you. Everyone seems to be having fun, but you -- every woman is apparently satisfied to you, but yet why aren't you satisfied?

You likely have high standards despite having little to show for yourself, but you expect people to overlook them exclusively when it comes to you, because you like wallow in your own dull inadequacy -- and yet, you do not grant this to women. It's pathetic really, but boringly common.

>If they are lonely it's because they are choosing to be lonely.

You're also choosing to be lonely. You could make friends quite easily, anybody can. Whether or not you like them, that's an entirely different story.

>>9257406
Same. Avg 40 pages a day for the last 2 years.

I'm a tired wagecuck, so at best I get 2-3 hours of reading in a day, usually 70-100 pages

>>9258154
bumperino

>>9258154
Audiobooks my friend.

>>9258562
I read about this speed if the material isnt like ya fiction. Some people just read slower.

>>9258729
No, everything is easier for women. I'm not imagining it. A woman can get friends, a boyfriend, a job all easily. I work my ass off and can't do that. I have about 10% of the choices and opportunities of the average woman.

>>9258007
Its very easy to grasp, i knocked it out in a day reading in my yard with the goats. I wouldnt have invested more than a day into it though.

>>9258154
I read atlas shrugged over a month while picking fruit in western nsw, its not that good but the descriptions of smoking always made me need a couple darts.

>>9256739
depends how far into a book I am, or how close I am to finishing it.

if it's a 200 page book I'll just sit down and read it all with maybe a couple breaks. If it's say 400 pages I'll read probably the first and last 100 really quickly, and spend much longer slowly reading the middle section.

It took me I think it was 3 days to read the final 300 pages of Infinite Jest, when for the middle third I'd absolutely crawled through it over the course of a month and a half.

nothing to do with books not being enjoyable or slow-paced in the middle, it's just how I am.

>>9258477
>adderall
>not microdosing lsd for enhanced concentration, understanding, and mood

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>>9258802
>if it's a 200 page book I'll just sit down and read it all with maybe a couple breaks. If it's say 400 pages I'll read probably the first and last 100 really quickly, and spend much longer slowly reading the middle section.

That's exactly me.

>>9258452
>does anyone have tips to increase how much im reading?

I S O L A T I O N

from people, electronics and clocks

>>9258811
Sauna Dom Midgetry pls go

>>9258783
Do you even talk to any women? You're so dense, it seems like even if you met women who contradicted your world-view, you would still stubbornly cling to it because it's the only way you rationalize your own inadequacy. You're not interested in what's true, you're only interested in what gives you cover.

>>9258819
how am i going to use my reading light without electricity????????

I find it slightly amusing myself that the one situation where I read like an absolute powerhouse is when I'm visiting my Dad and his family. The impression I give them must be that I'm glued to books 24/7, because while I'm there I am so tremendously bored by staying in someone else's house while not really being a 'guest' who must be entertained, and not knowing them quite well enough to just sit and chat for hours, I always resort to reading non-stop unless we have to go do some group activity or it's a meal.

>>9258823
What could a woman possibly feel lonely about? What is there that that a woman couldn't have if she didn't merely ask for it?

>>9256739
>How many books do you read a week?
0
>A month?
0
>How long does it take you read say, a 400 page book?
In my native language, it would take me 1 week if it is not a classical epic, otherwise one month.
> What about a 1000 page one?
A little more than the double, I don't take breaks for long books, if it is an classical epic I just review the summaries I made for each chapter.
> How many hours do you spend reading a day?
0

I have read and studied very few books in my native language, I'd say few more than 10.
Only 3 were relevant:
Canti di Leopardi, Divina Commedia, Promessi Sposi.
I read and studied very few translated literature, none was relevant.
I am now reading the translation of Genji Monogatari and I am learning Japanese also for studying the book and read the original.

I do not relate to any Philosophies, psychology and any ideology, I do not believe anything of this can define any mentality of any living being.

>>9258857
Honestly, seek help. Seems like you have a pathological problem -- I don't know what the cause is, but if you honestly think this, you're completely delusional.

>>9258796
>picking fruit in western nsw
Please tell me more about that, sounds like a comfy tale.
I still want to read it, it's one I've always wanted to read. How long do you reckon you spent reading it each day/week?

>>9258759
I'm not really a fan, and I feel that it's not quite the same experience as reading a book.

>>9257747
>Novels are mostly narcissistic barely disguised memoirs.

this.. this described your whole post your retard. get smart

i rarely read. i think all the time though, heh

>>9258759
Audiobooks are read at a pace of like 15 pages an hour

>>9258870
Why are you even here?

>>9258921
wow really made me read

>>9258953
based reply. ty

>>9258879
I'm just saying that it's very hard to possibly see how any woman could possibly struggle.

100-150 pages a day. But I spend almost all of my free time reading.

>a week
2-5 lately
>a month
whatever that adds up to
>time taken to read 400pg book
depends so much on its density and how carefully i have to scan through it. for a reasonably transparent novel i'd say 2-3 days, but it could be up to a week.
>time taken to read a 1000pg book
as variable as above but i definitely find a psychological difficulty inherent with books of that length too, so i'd say i'm likely get through them at a slower rate. could be anywhere between 5-15 days. i'd be unlikely to pick up a really difficult text if it was that long.
>hours spent reading per day
2-4. currently just working a yuck job 30 hours/week, waiting for my course to start in july, so i've got a fair bit of free time for the next few months which i am trying to use productively.

>>9256739
Around 2-3 books a week, depending on the length.

>>9256739
>What about a 1000 page one?
Idk, it takes me significantly longer to read GR than like gurrm book.
I read either too quickly or too slowly, paying either too little or too much respect to the author.
I'd like to say I read two books a week, but it averages out to something like 1.5.

Rarely read anything (other than essays or brief stories) straight through, otherwise I'll read 50-100 pages into something and then set it down to come back to later - feel lost when I finish something good quickly, as if the experience is over. 25/hour usually, 50+ when I pay full attention. When I'm not exhausted from porn, I can read 4+ hours, otherwise I read nothing.

>used to only read philosophy
>tfw used to think I was seriously retarded because I could barely manage 10-15 pages a day
>one day pick up A Scanner Darkly, the first novel I've read in 10+ years
>can easily read 50+ pages a day with no effort or time at all
>realize most of the people who report massive page counts are reading novels
I feel like there's way too much variety between the difficulty and importance in different types of literature for reading speed to ever serve as a real metric of anything.

>>9259512
>exhausted from porn

how

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>>9258940
To shitpost, obviously. Are you one those who thinks that people here actually read?

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>>9258888
It was pretty great,
Everyone else was either a french backpacker or an ex-con
Got to meet people like dean who was the nicest dude and made the most delicious food, he would give me weed to fix stuff on his phone, but he would drink a bottle of rum then would grab man arse and throw fridges at people, he did a few months for grievous bodily harm before ending up there
Then there was Calvin, he would smell us smoking bongs from a km away and show up at our place and just invite himself into our cabin. He almost convinced us he was a war hero, but then the story changed every day and we realised he was just a lunatic. He told us he served in Argentina and had to shoot a child with a bomb strapped to it, and then got put in the army lockup for punching his superior officer. I was there with three mates and one night we were on the turps and Calvin approaches, points at me and says "you, come back to my caravan with me" so, of course, I did. I get there and his wife fresh from London (They met on facebook, and I'm certain she only came over because he convinced her he was a millionaire just waiting for his parents will to come through) is rolling around in bed complaining because she's got bad heroin withdrawal, and he offers me a 'dreggy bong' (dried out month old bongwater you cut with tobacco) I accept and he boots his computer. While it boots he turns to me and asks "I've got a question, do you like cars, or do you like dragons?" I said, "let's see your dragons" and spend the next hour being shown pictures of dragons on his computer he's found on google images. Afterwards, he shows me many more pictures including some nudes of his junkie wife and close-ups of his nutsack, then tries to sell me the whole caravan. We head back afterwards and then he does the exact same thing to the other two individually. Later he told us he had autism and showed us his cool rock collection, and tried to sell it to us.
Other than that we just picked fruit and smoked weed with french girls who didn't know English and appeared to hate us. And of course I would read all about how hard work can get you anywhere for a few hours each day, I tried not to read in front of the other blokes there though as they would probably take offence.
Many stories from that place though, would recommend.
Pic related- Calvin's bong ("had it for 20 years and never washed it, used to be clear plastic"), dog, and feet.

>>9260249
>"I've got a question, do you like cars, or do you like dragons?" I said, "let's see your dragons" and spend the next hour being shown pictures of dragons on his computer he's found on google images

Sensational.

>>9256739
when I was at Uni I read a 300-500 page novel every week

in between work and general lack of energy I can read a a 300-500 novel in around a bout 2 and a half weeks

>>9256739
>edging from 7pm til 4am ever day

jesus no wonder these people are hollowed out husks, you'd probably fare better taking heroin

>>9256812
I couldn't even read 10 pages until I went to Uni recently. I think it's more the problem of me masturbating mid-read. When I was a NEET I could do this, just open a new tab and have a furious wank.

>>9260237
Aside from /v/ and /tv/, most interests boards are relatively good introductions to their respective interests. Even /mu/ to some extent will offer a reasonably diverse selection, showcasing many elements, styles and instruments, which may not necessarily be something people are exposed to in an average day.

I can't imagine anyone is actually here to just shitpost. Or on any board other than the aformentined.

>>9260249
Your style of writing and humour is nice, anon. Very australian

I read about 100 pages a day. So it depends how long the books are.


>How many hours do you spend reading a day?
As many as it takes to finish 100 pages.

Though I usually do it in two sittings of 50 pages.

4-7 books.

>400 pages.
a day.

>1000 page.
3-4 days

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>>9260436
No offence, but are you NEET? What else do you, or anyone else who claims to read this much, do in your days?

>>9260444
Mistakenly attached image, on phone sorry.

>>9260444
Wake up
Go on /lit/
Read
Go on /lit/
Read some more
Get into bed
Go on /lit/
Fall asleep

>>9256739
i usually read 20-50 pages in a sitting. i read every morning. some weekends, i just read in bed all day. i usually have about two or three books going at a time though. sometimes i don't feel like fiction, sometimes i don't feel like non-fiction, sometimes i don't feel like poetry etc.

so i don't have much regularity in finishing books. last year i did 32 in a 52 book challenge. so definitely under a book a week when i'm trying to read as much as possible.

>>9257747
New pasta everyone!!

>>9260444
No I am not a NEET.
>What else do you do.
Work and study which both involve reading.

I push myself to read at least 100 pages. The problem is I still can't grow out of video games. If I did, I could aim for 200.

i've once read 973 pages in a bit less than 10h.
i always read in spurts and i only know that because i've read an entire book in that time. i never keep track of theamount i read.
i can go months without a single page and then read 4-5 books in a week. it's a very unstable thing with me

>>9256739
One hour a day, since my commute takes half an hour each way.

>>9256739
>How many books do you read a week?

Depends on the length, subject and density

>How long does it take you read say, a 400 page book?

Depends on the above things, but usually about 4 days.

>What about a 1000 page one?

About 10 days

>How many hours do you spend reading a day?

Around one to four hours.

>>9260849
I don't believe you

>>9260849
>i've once read 973 pages in a bit less than 10h.
lol

>>9258626
i think its average, and i have a hard time believing that people really read at 300 words per minute...that seems really insane. i could probably read harry potter at like 300/500+ words per a minute but definitely not impressive prose work or philosophy. if i'm reading philosophy, essays, etc. it takes me minutes for a page a lot of the time, and it's unlikely that i'm some special snowflake who goes super slow and just can't comprehend what is being said on the page as fast as other people..

>>9263522
I'm the same. I don't really read anything that I'm not on 25 pages an hour. I can bang out airport fiction obviously.