/lit/ - Literature

>>18658947
Between ten and thirty.

>>18658947
I read 26 so far not counting ebooks

>>18658947
Last year I read 82 books.

>>18658947
Every year before 2020: 0-1
2020: 20ish
2021: 17 so far.
Thanks /lit/ bros

>>18658947
looks like it'll be about 30-40 this year inshallah

>>18658947
>used to read around 50-60 books a year
>get a job and a partner
>13 books so far this year
I miss the sweet neet life already

>>18658947
I managed to hit the 70 mark last year thanks to covid and working from home but now that we got back to wage slaving in offices I haven't read a single book in the past 4 months, I honestly do not get how people with an 8 to 5 job (+3h commute per day) manage to engage in their hobbies

>>18660559
>>18660564
Just read on your way to work you retards, I had to take a bullet train to get to uni twice per day (trip lasted 2h, so 4h in total), and that's where I spent most of my reading or listening to new albums time

>>18660582
pretty hard to read when you're driving, and even if I was not commuting in my car I still would not read in public transportation, there is just no way you can properly focus and immerse yourself in what you are reading while in public.

>>18658947
last two digits of this post decides how many

>>18658947
One.

>>18660598
That's not how reading works

I REWARD MYSELF WITH THREE (3) PAGES FOR EVERY TWELVE (12) HOURS OF BROWSEPOSTING; THERE ARE ONETHOUSAND FORTYEIGHT (1248) HOURS IN A YEAR, AND THREEHUNDRED SIXTYFIVE (365) DAYS; THAT IS TWOTHOUSAND ONEHUNDRED NINETY (2190) PAGES PER YEAR AT SIX (6) PAGES PER DAY; SUPPOSING AN AVERAGE OF THREEHUNDRED SIXTYFIVE (365) PAGES PER BOOK I READ SIX (6) BOOKS IN A YEAR.

>>18660590
I used to be able to read just fine on the school bus when I was in elementary school, even with all the screaming and general chimp-tier atmosphere

>>18660582
>>18660590
>>18660783
>sitting alone on the train during rush hour
>nice spacious place to sit right next to me
>no one sits down
>train stars filling up, nearly every seat is taken
>people around me are just standing instead of sitting next to me
>see over a dozen qts walk up to the seat eager to sit
>they walk to the other side of the train after they spot me
>start violently shaking and sweating profusely
>mumbling stoic aphorisms to myself
>whip out my copy of meditations
>just stare at the title page while muttering to myself, too anxious to read
>get off on my stop, people hurry over and fill the seat I left

>>18660833
Take a shower

>>18658947
I read in the range of 77-93 each year from 2015-2017. I was addicted to heroin for the first half of that period, and worked part time as a very well-paid private tutor for the bratty, idiotic kids of wealthy parents. As heroin delivered me from the need for community and ambition, all my time was spent reading.

From 2018-2020, I was engrossed in my university studies, and it became roughly 40 books a year.

As for 2021 I've read a mere 4 books, but hundreds of articles and several excerpts for my thesis work.

>>18660564
I work night shift. I go to sleep around 930am, wake up in the early afternoon, eat, then have a cup of coffee and read for an hr or two before my evening nap.
Whatever time you would normally spend looking at a screen at home, look at a book instead.

>>18660582
I bike to work, and it's only like 10 minutes away since I don't live in some suburban hellscape.

I don't read.

>>18660833
The other day, for the first time in my life, a girl took a seat on the bus next to me, even if there were other free seats. It literally terrorized me desu

>>18658947
On a good year, between 50 and 75
2020-2021 probably less than 20, combined (quarantine pretty much deprived me of the will to read, but I'm kinda recovering)

How in the fuck are you people getting through more than like 50 books per year? How many hours a day are you dumping into reading, seriously? How much extended philosophy/dense shit/longer ficition is included in that? It doesn't look like I'll surpass 35 this year, made up of Greeks, theology, and 500+ pages fiction.

>>18660833
These are the people telling you to be le epic stoic LMAO

>>18658947
in my prime -150+
right now about 60-70

3-5

>>18661333
Since you asked nicely, I'll show you what I read in 2019 (49 books)

Some are short, some are easy readings, Storie segrete dell'ultima guerra is 480 pages, I think it's mostly history overall. The site tells me these are a total of 8841 pages, but probably it counts index/summary + blank pages too. That's an average of 180 pages, quite short overall.

In fact it seems 2019 wasn't a good year
Y -----------Books------------Pages
2018-------75------------------16178
2017-------57------------------13155
2016-------78-------------------15119

>>18661333
>How many hours a day are you dumping into reading, seriously?
I'm not sure
15kpages/365days=about 42 pages/d
Of course there are days when I don't read, and as I mentioned above, the site also counts blank pages, pages with three lines, etc.

>>18658947
I try to average one a month though sometimes I cheat and use short stories/novellas to fill the months where I'm struggling through a longer text.
All in all, it doesn't fucking matter

Aim for 50, end up around 30-40. Gonna try and commit more to 1 book a week. Work can pretty much kill this though.

>>18658947
We don't read books here.

>>18660672
>THERE ARE ONETHOUSAND FORTYEIGHT (1248) HOURS IN A YEAR
?

>>18661852


LAPSVS; IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE RESULT.

Last year was about 60. I’ve read about 40 so far this year.

2, but fully analized and with essays and refutations

>>18658947
Sometimes too many, other times too few. One atta time.

>>18660833
>fell for the stoic meme
ngmi

I read like 10 last year. I've maybe read 5 this year. I'm slacking.

>>18660672
>>18661993
Real or joke?

>>18660672
>I REWARD MYSELF WITH THREE (3) PAGES FOR EVERY TWELVE (12) HOURS OF BROWSEPOSTING
No wonder you're the most tremendously dicksucking tripfag. You don't actually read.

>>18658947
Like 8. I'm an embarrassingly slow reader. Even easy books take forever to get through. It took me an entire month to finish Ubik.

Only read Journey to the end of the Night thus far, 400 pages in The Tunnel at the moment.