Why am I so concerned about the length of a book while reading

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I feel the same way anon. I think we're just brainlets

>>9968855
A lot of people have this problem. I used to have this problem when I was younger and wanted to be able to say I read a book. It's just a habit that can be broken. You're just going to have to practice concentration. I broke it by visualizing everything I read in descriptive passages, and in intellectual passages, just concentrating on understanding the entire argument, going back again and again until I understood exactly what the author was trying to communicate. At first you'll be checking yourself to make sure you're not paying attention to the page number, and thus paying attention to it. You might even feel like you're going nuts and you'll never be able to think about anything but page numbers while you read. But ff you practice this other way of reading, or your own version of it, just making sure that you are concentrating solely on the text, you'll learn to fall into the book and pay no heed to the number of pages left. I promise that it will work, but it takes intense concentration. You'll soon be interrupted in your reading by trying to turn the page and realizing that there's nothing left.

>>9968855
maybe you can turn off page count on some e-readers but i don't know really desu flemeli

You already know the answer.
The problem is that you subconsciously care about the number of books you finish under a self imposed deadline, say 4 books in a week.

Renounce this deadline that your subconscious has taken for a measure of self worth and "become one with the text".

You will complete the book faster than you ever could obsessing over its pagecount and your progress and also you would have matured as a human being.