How many books do you read a week? A month? How long does it take you read say, a 400 page book...

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.

Go back to plebbit, edgyteen.

Do you like being a lit/phil major?

Just get it over with and kys yourself already

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

no

Why not, friendo?

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.

you dare

>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.

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.

>can only read 20 pages a day

>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.

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.

I count syllables.

Hey, at least you're reading.

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

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

>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.

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

takes me like 2 hours to read 20 pages

I'm a failure aren't I Veeky Forums

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?

Yeah, you gotta envy especially those German women.

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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.

>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.

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.

>250 pages in 10 hours is slow reading
Not that user 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

I would say that's pretty average speed

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

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

>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)

PoMo?

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

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.

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.

Are you serious or trolling? Genuine question.

>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

>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?

Nice copi, Brad.

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

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

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.

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

bumperino

Audiobooks my friend.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

>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.

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

I S O L A T I O N

from people, electronics and clocks

Sauna Dom Midgetry pls go

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.

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.

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?

>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.

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.

>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?

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

>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

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

Why are you even here?

wow really made me read

based reply. ty

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.

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

>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.

>exhausted from porn

how

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

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.

>"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.

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

>edging from 7pm til 4am ever day

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

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.