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today i read entire 96 pages, i was basically busy reading all day. how do you guys manage to shitpost here 24/7 while still being so well read?

>> No.16466991

>>16466986
>implying anybody here reads anything but Wikipedia and Twitter

>> No.16467007

>>16466986
I read 10 pages of simulation and simulacra and felt like vomiting

>> No.16467022

>well read

lmfao the vast majority of /lit/ isn't well read

I'd guess 5% (including lurkers) have read more than 1000 books

>> No.16467027

>>16466986
96 pages can be a lot or not that much depending on what you're reading.

>> No.16467033
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Sparknotes

>> No.16467044

>>16467022
>I'd guess 5% (including lurkers) have read more than 1000 books
No one on this shithole has read even half of that lmao

>> No.16467053

>>16467022
1000 is a lot dude

>> No.16467115

Get perspective. Books are not equally as easy to read. This is a slow board and there's little profit comparing yourself to how you perceive others.

>> No.16467122

>>16467022
>1,000 books
that's a lot of books, anon. Yes, your assumption that most of /lit/ hasn't even read half of that is probably correct

>> No.16467147

>>16467007
Ya, I have it sitting on my bookshelf and get filtered by the first page.

>> No.16467155

>>16467122
its alot but there are people here claiming to read over 100 books per year

thats only a decade, and i know alot of people here are pushing 30. at least some of them should have reda 1000. idk if i believe them though.

>> No.16467308

>>16467147
I think the beginning is more dense then the following pages. Still my brain immediately tried to synthesize it with other shit and I just got nauseous

>> No.16467341

>>16466986
Ever notice how none of the threads are about books?>>16466991

>> No.16467351

>>16467155
Those are people who count short stories as books via Goodreads. If you buy Faulkner's Complete short stories and read the entire book (it's roughly 800 pages) you will have read "50" books for Goodreads. It should only take you 1-2 weeks to read Faulkner's complete short stories.

>> No.16467357

>>16466986
Barely anyone here reads. They'll just regurgitate some hot take from right wing twitter or in the middle of a stealth race bait thread, they'll just copy a wikipedia article or repeat the same argument that have been used for over half a decade now on this site

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>>16466986
I finished 2 books when I started posting on /lit/ a few years ago thinking I had a great literary future ahead of me. Fast forward and I still have vol 1. of In Search Of Lost Time bookmarked at the same spot it was since the summer and can barely get 2 pages in before I feel exhausted and sleepy. I wish I got into /lit/ when I was a neet I can't find the time or energy to read while working full time.

>> No.16467406

>>16467375
>working full time
So 40-45 hours per week. There are 168 hours in a week, at least 24 if not 48 of those you have all to yourself. Accounting for 8 hours of sleep, that still leaves 67 hours of free time, 48 of which are the weekend. What are you doing with your 19 work free hours that come from Monday-Friday?

>> No.16467425

Well I'm a NEET so I got a lot of free time. Typically I'll try to do a chapter (or whatever unit the work most easily divides into) and give it my full undivided attention then I'll take a mental stretch, shitpost, or watch youtube, or take a bonghit or eat or whatever I need to do to get into the groove again then back to reading.
I'm also studying arithmetic and latin so twice a day I devote an hour or two to those studies as well.
Deus verus non est, sed fabus

>> No.16467467

I shitpost once every 10 pages

>> No.16467476

>>16467007
The problem with that book is that the author doesn’t understand what they are trying to say enough to teach it more simply. It’s so dense and it really doesn’t have to be.

>> No.16467482

>>16467022
I am almost to 100

30 of which have been in the passed 3 months

>> No.16467490

>>16467476
They do understand but they are trapped in the belief that language can explain it if they use enough different words, which is ironic considering what the book is about.

>> No.16469088

>>16467022
>more than 1000 books
lol, maybe if you count shit childrens books like Goosebumps and Animorphs and shit, someone might get close to that number. no way 5% of any group on the planet has read 1000+ books unless you count shit like that

>> No.16469097

>>16466986
How long did that take you? An hour? So you have 17 left to shitpost if you keep sleep to a reasonable minimum.

>> No.16469102

I just read for 2-3 hours every day

>> No.16469292

>>16467406
My work week is 80 hours

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>>16466986
I read most of the western canon (Fiction + Philosophy) before the age of 19.
Between the ages of 20 and 23, I only read stuff for my law degree, non-fiction, and self-help. I only started re-reading fiction and philosophy after 23.

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>>16467022
>I'd guess 5% (including lurkers) have read more than 1000 books

>> No.16469826

>>16466986
96 pages in a day? Did you read in a foreign language, was it so difficult or why so long?
Either way in my case about five years ago:
First read while commuting on the train to work.
Then hear a different audio book while working (rather physical job but often complex tasks, so I often had to rewind to get what has been said).
Then read again while commuting on the train back home.
Post here while working when I wasn't hearing the audio book.
Only post in the threads with books that I've read and at most ask questions in others.
I rarely shitpost and I think many do it while in university or while working.

>> No.16469852

>>16466986
I have a job that allows me to read at least two full hours a day. This gives me usually about 60-150 pages depending on the density. I post on here when I don't have enough time to read.

>> No.16470570

>>16467406
Realistically, I have two 35 minute commutes each day, lunch I usually spend marking books, and then the evening I get back home at 7.00 on average. I usually go for a walk or a drink with a friend and then I cook dinner and eat it with the girlfriend. By the time this is all done it's about 9.30 which leaves me an hour before I need to go sleep. So really I get about two hours of reading a day during the week. On the weekends I'll get maybe four or six hours of reading to a total of 18-20 hours a week. That's really my theoretical maximum.

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>>16466986
I'm commuting 3h a day. Once you're able to completely shut out noises from the outside you can read anywhere ore efficiently. I average 80 pages of heavy text alone during my train ride. But I'm also reading in the evening and before bed.

To be honest, most people on here don't really read anything beyon memebooks, at best. They buy some copies shilled on here and stop after 50 pages, making it a dustcollector. If they remain here for a longer period, you will see the whole memelist on their shelfthreads. Which in most cases is only to brag aout reading, without really reading. Seldom does on see an anon with a heterodox shelf which actually make sense in their literary taste. If one can extrapolate from those threads, I would say less than 5% on here are actual readers.

You're fine, anon.