How much time do you need to read 300 pages?

Depends what I'm reading.

Something for fun like a Grisham novel, probably 3-4 hours.

Just thought I would drop a comment that fixating on reading speed can be pretty detrimental (especially because you can't really change it except by reading more and concentrating better, neither of which are aided by being concerned with speed).

How many words are on those pages? How complicated is the writing? Page count is only useful as a determiner of how long something takes after you've established what you're reading. 300 pages of Stephen King reads much, much faster than 300 pages of Foucault. You could in fact probably read several King novels in the time it would take you to read one book by Foucault.

Who times themselves? Doesn't that distract from the main reason to read in the first place?

Being concerned with anything about the piece you're reading that isn't the symbols on the page themselves makes you a pleb.

Any good reading speed tests that Veeky Forums takes?

If it takes me a month to read 300 pages should I kill myself?

Depends on how difficult the book is and/or how interesting.

A super difficult yet interesting book like Beyond Good and Evil might take me 3 minutes per page.

A boring and easy book like China Boy will usually take me 2 minutes per page.

10 pages a day? Come on.. Set bigger goals for yourself. You're only playing yourself

My rate was around 3 minutes per page, so 15 hours.

I think I managed to cut down to 2 minutes so 10 hours then, I had to get my brain to stop obsessively rereading shit it already understood. I've had stretches of like 1 minute a page, but I don't know what makes me read faster some times than others.

These figures were obtained with the same book, so it's not like I'm just reading lighter shit when I go faster.

what a fucking dumb thread.

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i don't bother

Average books? 1 minute per page.
5-10 seconds per page if speed reading.

LOTR or Bible style pages?
Forever.
I still have nightmares over how long those pages where

>there are people so superficial they literally time how many words per minute they read
This board is so fucking sad.

currently i´m reading out loud at a slow speed of about 3-4 hours around for 300 pages i´d like also to mention that that´s not hard literature

you don´t have to time that
you just keep in mind how long you were reading and calculate the rest which is perfectly fine if you want to look like an idiot wasting his time

What a faggot.

You can't improve your reading speed just by reading if you don't have a will to read faster and it's still hard if you don't know what to focus on to improve your reading speed.

>You go to bed
>You read for half an hour
>If you think about it, you did go from Page X to Page Y
Huh, isn't basic insight amazing?
How much of a sub human do you have to be, to fail such basic awareness?

Same, desu.

Fucking Foucault though.
Literally everyone hated him when I was studying political science. Absolutely fucking everyone. Most of the time, the information wasn't even particularly insightful, just stupidly dense to read. I'm drunk enough to get mad about this shit now.

Also, should I read some contemporary African lit or The Sorrows of Young Werther next, boys?

3 days, I try to average 100 pages a day.

Werther's Original

Not too much for reading it in German as I'm not capable of speaking it fluently quite yet. Could do it with a simpler text, but no way with this.

6-9 hours