/lit/ - Literature

If I take a shit, I'm reading. I shit twice a day, every day.

Get on my metabolic rate.

Maybe not _everyday_, because sometimes it's just not possible due to time constraints, but the vast majority of days. Usually for at least an hour or two.

I can't shitpost if I don't read, silly, and my metabolic rate is likewise quite impressive.

>>3100456
>>finishes a book about every 10 days, so read about 40 pages a day, assuming the average book is 275 pages.

That's not that much.

>>3100456
>she thinks /lit/ reads

I got news for you anon

I read every day. I finish about a book every 3 days with ever feeling like I'm rushed or rushing.

>>3100456
That's not much at all. I read about 15 books a month.

>>3100525
I read 20 books a month

>>3100490
>That's not that much.

Assuming she finishes 36 books a year, that's more then 90 percent of the world.

Some stats:

• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.

• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.

• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.

• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.

>>3100456
I read nearly everyday. I'm pretty addicted I guess. Even before going of into a 3 day drunken leap of misery I stuff a paperback into my jacket.

>>3100530
I can relate to that last one — I buy lots of books (or check them out from the library) but a significant portion of them I only get about halfway through — or less, if they don’t hold my interest. But that stat about 42% of college grads never reading another book? That’s a little frightening. One thing I’m not certain about, and isn’t mentioned in these statistics, is how they stack up over time — but I’ll bet you money that more than 42% of college grads kept reading books in the 1950s, 60s, 70s.

So what’s to blame? A shift in popular entertainment? The dominance of the screen over the printed page? Are books just less interesting than they used to be? Or are we, as a society, getting … dumber?

What do you think?

>>3100530
I fucking hate this country sometimes

>>3100534
The stats are from here:

http://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm

It's also culled from the America Bureau of Labor

>the average American watches 3 hours of TV per day

Fucking lol

>>3100543
Well I shitpost on average about seven hours a day so I'm not sure my finger is fit to point.

>>3100525
>>3100529

That's uber nerd tier, it's that those nerds who read all day and night.

>>3100530

33% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42% of college graduates never read another book after college.
80% of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70% of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57% of new books are not read to completion.


We America now.

>>3100548
i read 100 books per week

>>3100530
>Assuming she finishes 36 books a year, that's more then 90 percent of the world.

...and less than 90 percent of /lit/.

>>3100555
I read 1,000 books a night

I read at least one chapter every night before i go to bed, + whatever time i have on the Bus. Sometimes I just feel like reading, so i'll put on the fireplace, move my chair in front of it, put on rainy mood & a 'reading' playlist, dim the lights, and read. It's awesome.

I read throughout the day while traveling back and forth from college as well as during the mid-class break and I generally clear maybe 100 pages. Thats about 2 and a bit hours a day, 5 days a week. I don't often read at home unless the book I'm on is a real nut grabber.

>>3100566
what a faggot

>>3100555
>...and less than 90 percent of /lit/.

>implying /lit/ reads

Go away, fat nerd.

>>3100543
>the average American watches 3 hours of TV per day
Is this active watching or just having the tv on? I actively watch an average of about 45 minutes a day but the television is on whenever I'm home, usually on some bullshit like How It's Made or Pawn Stars, because silence maddens me.

>>3100566
Gaylord.

>>3100575
>>>/v/

>>3100578
>because silence maddens me

I know the feeling, I hate silent houses. I can't sleep with silence either, I need to have a video or music or something playing.

God, I'm such a faggot.

>>3100571
Don't be mean.

The average American reads 3 books per year.

"Reading - The average American watches 28 hours of television each week - that adds up to 1,456 hours of television each year. And how many books does the average American read in a year? Three. Yikes! That means while we read thirty books every 10 years, we watch 14,560 hours of television. That adds up to 606 DAYS of television every 10 years - the better part of 2 years straight. Do you really want to be that stupid? And if you have kids, are they reading? I'd say it's time to turn off the idiot box and pick up a book, America. "

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_ws-is_reading.htm

>>3100585
>2012
>not playing classical music in the house

Stay pleb.

>>3100578
>>3100585
I'm the exact opposite. Background noise drives me absolutely insane, which is bad because I live in an extremely noisy house. Just the sound of a television in the room below me can prevent me from concentrating on my reading.

>>3100596
Classical music costs too much.

reading books isn't Olympics, you won't win a medal.

>>3100602
>not streaming off Youtube

Stay American.

>>3100600
Yeah, that's why I think reading is moderation is fine. I doubt these fags who say "15 books per month" is reading at a sustained pace.

>>3100596
>Stay pleb.
>>>/mu/

>>3100612
I read 10,000 books in the time it took you to post that.

>>3100602
>buying music

I can honestly say without any doubts that I have never in my entire life, purchased a single piece of music.

>>3100578
Guilty as well. Because of my neighbor's complaints in the past, I use headphones with music, which gets old when I miss phone calls and always have the damn cord around my neck. That's why the tv is usually always on when I'm home.

>>3100620
are you fourteen years old?

>>3100530

103 % of statistics posted in (random) threads by (random) persons are incorrect and (mostly) never supported by surveys/studies/cites

>lrn2cite
>cite or it didn't happen

>>3100622
23, but what has age got to do with it? Why in the name of fuck would you ever buy music when it's so easily available for free? You're literally throwing your money away.

And don't give me any of that "MUH MORALS" shit, they're filthy rich regardless of piracy.

1 in 4 never read a book last year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045.html

>>3100626
If you are actually 23 years old then you were alive at a time where it was much more convenient to buy music than to obtain it illegally through copy or download.

It could have been that you just didn't value music growing up but from the way you are posting I find it much more likely that you are just lying.

>>3100626
>they're filthy rich regardless of piracy
That really depends on who you listen to.

>>3100625
http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/part-2-the-general-reading-habits-of-americans/

Survey of 1,500 or so people.

>>3100626
Not every musician is rich.

>>3100634
How many books does the average American read per year?

Answer:

Taking out the 25% of Americans that didn't read a book last year {washington post article), the average is ~15 books a year (per reader). Doing a little bit of math (putting in the zeros and doing an average) we end up with about 9. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045_pf.html

>people on /lit/ hate e-readers because they like the "smell and feel of books"
>yfw you realize /lit/ is full of autistic nerds

>>3100456
>a book about every 10 days

And you're bragging about that? What is that, 150 books a year? Of which, I'm sure 90% are less than 400 pages.

Pleb.

>>3100639
I read 100,000 books in the time it took you to think of the content of that post.

>>3100642
Oh shit, it's even less, my math became retarded.

It's 36 a year. Let me laugh oh so much harder.

>>3100642
>>3100643
Trolls trolling trolls

My sides.

>>3100639
Eyes like that always make me think of the feel of boiled eggs, in a bad way.

Anyway, you can just spray the ebook reader. Either pic related, or some magic tree black ice if you can deal.

>>3100646
I'll troll my tongue straight up your ass you dirty little cunt.

I read everyday, 365 days a year.
I read more than 50 book a year.

Reading is for autistic nerds who lack a social life.

Only reason i'm on this board right now is because I was going to make an Atheist vs Christian thread.

>>3100484
10/10
i lol'd

>>3100673
>has social life
>wants to debate religion

You don't exist, bro.