I noticed I'll fly through a modern 600 page fiction in like 3 days but when I read something like the Pali Canon, or really any historical/philosophical work I often stop and meditate on a particular passage to really soak it in.
You say that but it's really easy to recognize non-readers. For example almost none of the people who talk about Lovecraft on IQfy have actually read him.
nta but i'm getting into lovecraft so thank you for pointing this one out. so far i've just read The Tomb and the then The Call of Cthulhu and both were great. please recommend more if you can of where to go from there
11 months ago
Anonymous
The music of eric zann, the nameless city and at the mountains of madness. If youre looking for shorter works the moon bog is a pleasant read and dagon is a piece that is essential to his identity as a writer.
If you’re reading a lot of books each year never stop. You’d be amazed at how hard it is to get back in the routine of reading daily once you haven’t done it for a year or two. And you become a genuine moron if you don’t exercise the novel-reading part of your mind. I’m serious, it’s a terrifying existence because you can sense yourself getting dumber
I'm pretty sure you can train it through different mediums so you're not getting dumber per se, but I agree getting back into the habit of reading is really hard.
I used to be an avid reader since I was a kid, but have been struggling to get back into it for the past 5 years after I stopped due to uni bullshit.
and? what else would you be doing aside from browsing grindr?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Exercise, meditation, hobby programming projects, house projects, family activities and social outings, hiking, canoeing, grocery shopping, anything really.
And that's my point. 20 pages a day is nothing if you are a NEET with no life with lots of time to waste. But if you have a job and family (or are young and actively trying to establish yourself), time is a lot more limited than some gay advice columnist makes it seem.
11 months ago
Anonymous
If 2 hours seems a lot to you then reading more isn't your main priority.
Also: >meditation
lmao
11 months ago
Anonymous
I also play piano, sometimes thats how I spend my relaxation time.
What do you do with your life besides shitposting and pretending to have read moby dick?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I frick your wife while you’re playing the gay piano.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I frick your son while he's sleeping in your balls. He's my little b***h and he always will be
11 months ago
Anonymous
You wish.
You gave up on ever getting laid years ago that's why you have so much free time for reading.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Bruh if you dont read, nor want to, get off /lit lmao
11 months ago
Anonymous
i read during my breaks at work and i get more than 20 pages every day easily
it also helps me completely zone out of any work related thought way better than most things
11 months ago
Anonymous
I like how goy-hog-cattle say shit like "grocery shopping" as an excuse to not read lmao. that's like an hour or two every few weeks.
11 months ago
Anonymous
They are morons with an inferiority complex desperately coping for attention. Imagine making up fake daily routine to try and trick strangers, people just cant admit they dont like reading. I have plenty of friends that dont really care about movies or music and they dont get all defensive when its brought up, why should reading be any different?
11 months ago
Anonymous
I work 60 hours a week and have a family to take care of and even I'm able to read more than 20 pages a day. If reading is something you value and enjoy 20 pages feels like nothing. I assume you simply haven't developed a reading habit if 20 pages seems like a big commitment.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>I only have 2 hours of spare time after all my projects and stuff! >shitposts on IQfy
based
The frick are you doing with your life that you have only 2 hours of time to yourself each day. I wouldnt do that for a million dollar salary
11 months ago
Anonymous
Job and family. And to be fair, lately I've been reading chapter books to my kids before bed, which counts as "pages" I guess but not in my free time. I can and do occasionally frick off at work, but usually when I do that I eventually make it up later on anyway. I work in software and enjoy working most of the time.
Exercise, meditation, hobby programming projects, house projects, family activities and social outings, hiking, canoeing, grocery shopping, anything really.
And that's my point. 20 pages a day is nothing if you are a NEET with no life with lots of time to waste. But if you have a job and family (or are young and actively trying to establish yourself), time is a lot more limited than some gay advice columnist makes it seem.
Why are you on IQfy again? So much for productive use of your time
I think my longest binge-reading session lasted around 4 hours and in that time I read the last 150 pages of e-girlta
I told myself I was going to just read 50 (up from the 40 I usually did) then that number went up to 70, then 90, then 100 until I finished the book
Sorry, we like to read actual books and take time to appreciate what we read. I guess we should speedread through whatever booktok "literature" you have on your bookshelf.
"if you read fast you don't understand it all"
classic readlet cope. reading fast isn't skimming. people who read fast get the same experience as you, but faster.
one of the most embarrassing things you can do in the face of mediocrity is insist people who aren't mediocre are secretly suffering just like you. just say "i'm a slow reader" and move on with your life.
>Nooooo, I speedred this thousand page book in a week, I definitely understand it!!!
I can speedread, I just choose not to, because I read to appreciate, not to gorge myself like you. >one of the most embarrassing things you can do in the face of mediocrity is insist people who aren't mediocre are secretly suffering just like you
Very confusing run-on sentence that also seems like projection. >you can do in the face of mediocrity
If I am to understand it, you are saying I am in the face of mediocrity? Well, I am responding to you, so that seems true.
Just say you are a superficial "reader", and move on with your life.
No excuse for what? I read everyday and so you're either projecting your own insecurities or you're so happy with yourself achieving some metric of success that you try to brag instead of actually doing something that matters. You've invalidated your own integrity with this post
here’s a cheat for my fellow dummies. read 25 pages a day. >but that’s reading more how is it a cheat?
because every 4th day you get a break and don’t have to read because those 5 extra added up!
pages are a meaningless unit, who cares if you read 50 pages per hour like an AI voice bot if you don't understand most of it and don't stop to analyze the meaning?
I can never work out if the slow readers are for real or a joke.
20 pages is about 6000 words. That's five or six typical online articles. It takes you 20 minutes to read those? It's less than one word a second
The >1 mississippi
Cat >2 mississippi
Sat >3 mississippi
On >4 mississippi
The >5 mississippi
Mat
Nobody can possibly read that slowly
I'm far too scattered in my life to concretely do that. I sometimes read over a hundred pages in a day, sometimes 5. I have the real issue of ADD making me sometimes take breaks from one book to read a short story or a passage or a comic. I just burn through some books and drag on others as I get distracted from other books. I definitely read the equivalent of that many books but not that many overall due to the constant short story or some such distractions.
I don't care about these people
anyone who makes reading into a chore
anyone who wears books like a badge
I don't respect them
either you like to read or you're a poser.
It's a reasonable amount. I'd like to read at least 100 pages a day but I find it unfeasible if the material is even semi-serious, let alone having time for writing.
20 pages of Moby-Dick is not equivalent to 20 pages of Of Mice and Men.
It is though?
it's 20 pages you fricking homosexual
20 Pages where you have to look up references or weird words is very different from 20 pages of YA novel babbling
20 pages is the minimum goal for low commitment reading, if you read YA you should aim higher, yeah.
Are you seriously proposing 20 pages is a challenge in either case? No wonder you clowns don’t read anything.
I read both of those in elementary school
I noticed I'll fly through a modern 600 page fiction in like 3 days but when I read something like the Pali Canon, or really any historical/philosophical work I often stop and meditate on a particular passage to really soak it in.
I am already at 16
We did it reddit
I don't read books.
>downvoted
based
but cringe for having an account
It took me two and a half months to get through 1000 pages of a 1740 novel.
If you read five wikipedia pages a day you can pretend to have read 1825 books a year on IQfy
I'm 100% certain this is what everyone here (me included) does.
I have never finished a single book.
You need to read at least a chapter of each book to make quality shitposts about writing style.
>You need to read at least a chapter of each book to make quality shitposts about writing style.
That's what the Amazon kindle free sample is for.
You say that but it's really easy to recognize non-readers. For example almost none of the people who talk about Lovecraft on IQfy have actually read him.
I don't talk about lovecraft on here, but I really enjoyed the rats in the walls. My favorite short story of his.
nta but i'm getting into lovecraft so thank you for pointing this one out. so far i've just read The Tomb and the then The Call of Cthulhu and both were great. please recommend more if you can of where to go from there
The music of eric zann, the nameless city and at the mountains of madness. If youre looking for shorter works the moon bog is a pleasant read and dagon is a piece that is essential to his identity as a writer.
If you’re reading a lot of books each year never stop. You’d be amazed at how hard it is to get back in the routine of reading daily once you haven’t done it for a year or two. And you become a genuine moron if you don’t exercise the novel-reading part of your mind. I’m serious, it’s a terrifying existence because you can sense yourself getting dumber
I'm pretty sure you can train it through different mediums so you're not getting dumber per se, but I agree getting back into the habit of reading is really hard.
I used to be an avid reader since I was a kid, but have been struggling to get back into it for the past 5 years after I stopped due to uni bullshit.
20 pages a day is a lot
it's like saying
"just work 8 hours a day and you will have worked 40 hours a week"
wow no shit
It should only take an hour to read 20 pages. Two hours if it’s a lot to take in.
Two hours per day is close to 100% of my free time.
and? what else would you be doing aside from browsing grindr?
Exercise, meditation, hobby programming projects, house projects, family activities and social outings, hiking, canoeing, grocery shopping, anything really.
And that's my point. 20 pages a day is nothing if you are a NEET with no life with lots of time to waste. But if you have a job and family (or are young and actively trying to establish yourself), time is a lot more limited than some gay advice columnist makes it seem.
If 2 hours seems a lot to you then reading more isn't your main priority.
Also:
>meditation
lmao
I also play piano, sometimes thats how I spend my relaxation time.
What do you do with your life besides shitposting and pretending to have read moby dick?
I frick your wife while you’re playing the gay piano.
I frick your son while he's sleeping in your balls. He's my little b***h and he always will be
You wish.
You gave up on ever getting laid years ago that's why you have so much free time for reading.
Bruh if you dont read, nor want to, get off /lit lmao
i read during my breaks at work and i get more than 20 pages every day easily
it also helps me completely zone out of any work related thought way better than most things
I like how goy-hog-cattle say shit like "grocery shopping" as an excuse to not read lmao. that's like an hour or two every few weeks.
They are morons with an inferiority complex desperately coping for attention. Imagine making up fake daily routine to try and trick strangers, people just cant admit they dont like reading. I have plenty of friends that dont really care about movies or music and they dont get all defensive when its brought up, why should reading be any different?
I work 60 hours a week and have a family to take care of and even I'm able to read more than 20 pages a day. If reading is something you value and enjoy 20 pages feels like nothing. I assume you simply haven't developed a reading habit if 20 pages seems like a big commitment.
>I only have 2 hours of spare time after all my projects and stuff!
>shitposts on IQfy
based
The frick are you doing with your life that you have only 2 hours of time to yourself each day. I wouldnt do that for a million dollar salary
Job and family. And to be fair, lately I've been reading chapter books to my kids before bed, which counts as "pages" I guess but not in my free time. I can and do occasionally frick off at work, but usually when I do that I eventually make it up later on anyway. I work in software and enjoy working most of the time.
Even a slow-reading ADD gay like me can do that easily. I don't do it all in on session.
Go read 20 pages of a book right now, time yourself, then come back here and update us on if it’s at all comparable to working 8 hours a day
Why are you on IQfy again? So much for productive use of your time
The book of IQfy can't ever be finished, no matter how much I read it, but it's only modern book worth reading.
I think my longest binge-reading session lasted around 4 hours and in that time I read the last 150 pages of e-girlta
I told myself I was going to just read 50 (up from the 40 I usually did) then that number went up to 70, then 90, then 100 until I finished the book
you morons are really slow readers huh?
Sorry, we like to read actual books and take time to appreciate what we read. I guess we should speedread through whatever booktok "literature" you have on your bookshelf.
"if you read fast you don't understand it all"
classic readlet cope. reading fast isn't skimming. people who read fast get the same experience as you, but faster.
one of the most embarrassing things you can do in the face of mediocrity is insist people who aren't mediocre are secretly suffering just like you. just say "i'm a slow reader" and move on with your life.
>Nooooo, I speedred this thousand page book in a week, I definitely understand it!!!
I can speedread, I just choose not to, because I read to appreciate, not to gorge myself like you.
>one of the most embarrassing things you can do in the face of mediocrity is insist people who aren't mediocre are secretly suffering just like you
Very confusing run-on sentence that also seems like projection.
>you can do in the face of mediocrity
If I am to understand it, you are saying I am in the face of mediocrity? Well, I am responding to you, so that seems true.
Just say you are a superficial "reader", and move on with your life.
L
>L
No excuse for what? I read everyday and so you're either projecting your own insecurities or you're so happy with yourself achieving some metric of success that you try to brag instead of actually doing something that matters. You've invalidated your own integrity with this post
>the petty downvote
lol
haha
here’s a cheat for my fellow dummies. read 25 pages a day.
>but that’s reading more how is it a cheat?
because every 4th day you get a break and don’t have to read because those 5 extra added up!
For me it's reading 40 pages one day, read nothing the next two days, read 50 pages the next day, nothing the next three days then finally 10 pages
According to Goodreads I have read 17167 pages. I read almost every day
Have a (You), you sad creature
>those books
PATHETIC
you must change your life
I read 2.5 hours a day on my days off
We are talking pages and you barge in with hours. You provided nothing of value to the thread.
pages are a meaningless unit, who cares if you read 50 pages per hour like an AI voice bot if you don't understand most of it and don't stop to analyze the meaning?
Why are you so cranky and citrusy?
>dislikes post
>screenshots and posts here
Why?
I disliked it because redditors are reading more than me and rubbing it in my face.
It's ok OP. Try starting small. Just a few pages a day. I'm sure you'll get there eventually.
Finally, time to reread Finnegans Wake. It's just The Book Thief!
I can never work out if the slow readers are for real or a joke.
20 pages is about 6000 words. That's five or six typical online articles. It takes you 20 minutes to read those? It's less than one word a second
The
>1 mississippi
Cat
>2 mississippi
Sat
>3 mississippi
On
>4 mississippi
The
>5 mississippi
Mat
Nobody can possibly read that slowly
im drunk
Is this some zoomer thing? Are people not reading however much they feel like just for the fun of it?
I'm far too scattered in my life to concretely do that. I sometimes read over a hundred pages in a day, sometimes 5. I have the real issue of ADD making me sometimes take breaks from one book to read a short story or a passage or a comic. I just burn through some books and drag on others as I get distracted from other books. I definitely read the equivalent of that many books but not that many overall due to the constant short story or some such distractions.
I don't care about these people
anyone who makes reading into a chore
anyone who wears books like a badge
I don't respect them
either you like to read or you're a poser.
It's not about making chore. It's inspiring people to start who are daunted.
legitimately good post OP. doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop.
Why would I read fiction
Cause you want to read something true
It's a reasonable amount. I'd like to read at least 100 pages a day but I find it unfeasible if the material is even semi-serious, let alone having time for writing.
18 books a year isn't very many. I guess I'm averaging a lot more than 20 pages a day.
I have every excuse homie you don’t know shit about my life aight? Let a homie live like DAYYUM