/lit/ - Literature

Haha yeah I remember when I was unemployed, good times

>>19124288
I can just about do this if I'm not working too long hours. One hour after waking up in the morning and two hours before going to bed.

>>19124305
If you are reading multiple pages a minute, how are you retaining any information? Three hours of reading for me is maybe 100 pages.

Pages aren't all the same. Some are bigger than other, some have more or less text. Some contain complex ideas others fun stories.

>>19124349
I'm overestimating desu, it was more like 100 pages an hour. But it's not hard, 60 seconds is a long time.

imagine being a stupid green frock

All of the flies you want, for the rest of your life.

>>19124299
I have an essay due in two hours so maybe I shouldn't have photoshopped this together...but eh fuck it. Why didn't the artist make it look like pic rel instead? Makes more sense anatomically, right?

>>19124349
me too, i often like to reread lines a lot as well which ends up making a page last for a minute or two

I do 18 pages per hour for deep reading. 50 pages for casual reading. I'm fairly slow at reading because I have dyslexia. Like, sometimes I misread "thought" as "though" ... I make these types of errors a lot, so I often have to reread the same passage twice. This didn't stop my from reading three books last week though ( Dracula, The Road, and Old Man and the Sea ). What's your excuse neurotypicals?

>>19124503
I have an essay due in three days ago but photoshop that pepe to have a smug penis

>>19124531
Based

>>19124503
Apu = baby = boobies

>>19124531
i do this a lot too, where i catch myself skimming rather than "reading." i ended up chalking it up to one's inclination to "skim" a lot more nowadays given the current entertainment atmosphere. when you're scrolling on social media, oftentimes--if you're like me-- you'll perhaps not even stop scrolling to read something, and will rather skim it just to get the general idea.

>>19124531
I don't believe in dyslexia or adhd, it's just parental copium for having stupid kids

>>19124288
>speedreading. That's the goal

>>19124624
I do this too, I think is an issue with attention. I have developed some sort of ADD from playan too much vidya and lack of reading for 4 years straight.
When I was 5 I would read 20 pages every night, but I had to reread the last 3 pages the next night because I would start to fall sleep and mindlessly skim through each word with my eyes half closed, my mind turned off or almost dreaming, and the book slipping off my hands.

>>19124288
Stalin Read 500 every day. Stalin spent his nights annotating his collection of books. Be like stalin

I've had the month off. I've read about 12,000 pages this month, I think. Most I've ever read.

>>19124624
>>19124768
i found a weird balance with this now where if i actually care about a book i have no problem maintaining close attention for hundreds of pages but if it's not really my bag my mind just starts to wander so much i struggle to make any progress. i actually like it, i used to finish all the books i started out of a pointless sense of obligation but now i just stop after the first 50 pages if it's not working for me and look for something else. i'm not sure if it's internet-induced add or if this is what developing a taste feels like but the end result is positive.

>>19124288
same but for writing

>>19125122
dropping a book asap is the best thing i think. i can't remember reading a book where i didn't like the first few chapters and then changed my mind completely.

time can certainly change tastes though. a book you can't stand now may not be the same book in ten years.

>>19125235
on the contrary there are a few books that crawled in the beginning but i ended up being glad i pushed through it, most of these are the classics

>>19125443
Crawled for how long? 50 pages? 70? Beyond this I think I'm wasting my time.

>>19124355
Some frogs are bigger then others, some frogs are bigger then others

>>19124288
based

>>19126013
lit is getting frogged rn

>>19124288
anyone else a slow reader?

>>19124531
>What's your excuse neurotypicals?
Im retardad

>>19126459
Yes i am...

For me its to get from 20 minutes a day to 2 hours of reading time in a month
Increasing my habit every week

Most people stop reading when they get bored or distracted, which is about 60 pages or so of serious literature. But its a scientific fact that this default quit point is only around 15% of the actual human capacity. Someone who's decided to really apply themselves to a goal and not quit can go way further.

i can't even read 50 pages a day.

i've read 82 books this month, mostly novellas though, but still a lot of reading, a few hundred pages a day.

Why? Do you retain any if it?

>>19124288
>I read every day
that's the goal

>>19127621
Same. I am cursed with being a slow reader while having the desire to read a lot

>>19124696
you not being able to understand adhd and dyslexia is the real retardation here

>>19124519
>like to reread lines
Me too, sometimes I'll only get 20 pages done in an hour.

>>19124288
Try that with philosophy, good luck.

>>19124288
Possible to have so much free time only if you work for the greek army or government in general

>>19124288
Life is too fast already, don't see the point of rushing everything, rather read slowly and calm

>>19126459
i read between 1 - 3 pages a day

>>19125007
>Stalin Read 500 every day.
Do you believe this propaganda bullshit?

>>19125007
>Stalin spent his nights annotating his collection of books.
Proofs?

>>19124288
20, take it or leave it

>>19129950
>>Stalin Read 500 every day.
Not OP, but Hitler apparently used to read one book per night.

>>19124288
imagine reading 500 pages a day thinking you're smarter than other people or learning more.

You're not lol. you're just a nervous nellie who is brushing over everything without actually thinking about it or understanding it.

why don't you go watch movies on 2x speed or something. Oh wait, that would be gay lol. fag.

>>19124288
>>19130023
to add. books are meant to be read at a certain speed. no books are meant to be read at 500 pages a day. unless they are meme books. op, are u a memelord? fag.

>>19129950
>quoting the same post twice
what a retard

>>19130006
there’s nothing impressive about that; imagine Hitler speedreading

>>19126459
Me, I finish a chapter a day.

>>19130091
That's true, and yet you don't seem to believe that Stalin could do the same thing.

>>19130023
>>19130031
Try a different posting style/humor, whatever you're attempting right now isn't working

>>19130189
are you mad, homo? I must've triggered you because sound like a little bitch right now.

>>19125034
What do you want, a medal? Shut up.

nothing makes /lit/ seethe more than someone who reads