I'm the exact opposite, I've been going everywhere with the same book in hand for the last two months but reading 3 books a week on average (5 or more if they're short stories)
I am a teenager and read that amount every week. I've read literally every book in my school library, even the ones that didn't interest me. I've read over half of the books at me public library and am have over one hundred books at home that I've read
@@phoenixxena8194I wish. Unfortunately I have to work full time at my family farm, do chores at my own house, homework, manage everything I'm involved in FFA wise, take care of all my bank account things, and make sure I babysit enough on my days off so I have money for gas cause I don't get paid to work on the farm. I only get to read so much cause I stay up really late and get maybe 5 hours of sleep
Nooo cuz why is this literally me? Whenever exams come around my brain can't focus on anything but reading and vacation time is like ewww who reads not me
Same! That’s actually why I don’t read that often anymore. If I can’t commit an entire day or weekend straight to the hyper focus I can’t even start. Trying to read just a chapter here and there is so torturous!
When I was unemployed and used reading (amongst other things) as escapism, I went through a book a day. Ahh, good times. Now I work and I'm so tired all the time I barely get to read MAYBE 5-10 books a year... I don't think I can even consider myself a reader, it's such a drastic shift 🙁
I went through a phase like that; twas sad. Thankfully, when I started working in lawn care at a place that gives multiple lengthy breaks, and when I simultaneously found Wingfeather, my inner bibliophile was able to reawaken! Unfortunately, I am currently in the state of wanting more Wingfeather, but facing the fact that that series is finished.....
@@olimar7647 That is the dream job then😂 Count yourself lucky, buddy, with feeling adrift because a beloved series is over. I recently started reading the second and third book of a series I liked (the series was only OK, but I was in love with the characters) the first book of when I read it, a couple of years ago. After falling in love with the characters again, even more so than then maybe, since I got to know them better, I went to buy the fourth and...ta-da! The author retired and the series is officially left for dead. Talk about feeling adrift T_T
@samevans1289 Oof! That's rough. That happened to me with the *Swipe* series. Guy left us on a cliffhanger after the 4th book, and not the sort of cliffhanger that works for the end of a story; moreso the kind that leads into the final and climatic book.... And yeah, it's a nice job! I wish it wasn't such an early morning, and I'll probably have to get another job in time for better pay, but for my current spot in life, 'tis good, honest work
When I was 13, I was given the first three Harry Potter books for Christmas (sheltered homeschool life 😂) I had them all read before lunch. It remains one of my proudest achievements 😊
That's incredible. I once read the entire series within 2 weeks, but it wasn't very satisfying. What I mean by that is, I read it so fast that I didn't really get the chance to enjoy it, and I barely remember it. The only reason I did it was bc I challenged myself to finish it in winter break, which here lasts 2 weeks.
I mean, I got the entire Harry Potter book set as a birthday gift, and my dad didn't want ne reading any of it and told me I'd have to return it. So I read all seven books, at night, in about a week. And then had to give them back to the family who gave me it because I didn't want to lose the set.
@@Coolkrobird eh, it was my dad, if I had my way I'd have kept the set, it was a really good set too. Like it was the one that was a chest with a plastic clasp for keeping it closed and some stickers as well, like- I knew it was a pretty good gift, expensive, and to return that because my dad didn't like it? Like, I wanted to read it- hello?
I actually can't stop if I am reading a book. I almost always end up completing it in a day (Like binge watching series? but better.) But due to this habit I have stopped myself from reading as i often forget I need to do other things too 😭😭
This is why I listen to audiobooks. It doesn't work for everyone, but I can do other things (cook, exercise, drive, walk the dog, etc) while listening to a book.
I love getting completely engrossed in a book! Blake Crouch books are perfect for that. Also the Green Bone Saga (Jade City trilogy) by Fonda Lee and the Founders trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett are some other favorites I read this year.
My trick is to have a set of time when I have to do chores. Shopping groceries 1xweek for 20mins. Deep house cleaning once a week on saturday for 2 hours. Laundry 1xweek. Cooking meal 1 hour a day for 2~3 meal time. So other than those times, I could dedicate those times to binge reading or binge watching. And I don't feel gulity cause I have finished my responsibilities first. But I'm single....so it's achievable. 😂
The trick is to read multiple books at once. I usually have one fiction and one non-fiction. Best if they're different lengths as well. You get full of one, you move to the other. You finish one, it spurs you to finish the other and start another. I also find that choice paralysis is weakened when you know you have another book going and there is less shame when putting a book down because you're just picking up the other like planned.
So do you find you retain most of the plot? or that you get the value from reading simultaneously just the same as reading just one book from start to finish?
@@iosifcosminlazar3106 books on tape and no sleep. I work full time, own a side business, love to crochet, and have two teenage sons, but I rarely have a day where I don’t read (or listen to) at least half a book and attempt a cryptic sudoku. I have to for mental health. It balances and relaxed me at the end of the day.
@@cinemaatrium3863 I never said I absorb everything I read. 75% of the books I read are fluff, enjoyable, escapism. I get lost in the story, and when I close the covers as I read the last sentence, details are put aside for a general feeling of “kick ass author, with at least a 90% editor.” (Bad editing makes me drop a book after the 5th missed error, regardless of how good the story is.) I love reading books that are part of a story universe, but have to refresh my memory in each book of the characters. Bottom line, reading for me, is one of my happy places. For my daily books, I don’t read books where I have to skip parts because they are boring or I find the content thick or I have to slow my pace to absorb whats going on so I know what’s going on later. I read books with lots of witty, clever dialogue, fun dialogue, and happy story lines (life outside of books is messed up enough that I don’t want anything too messy in my moments I escape from it). That isn’t to say that avoid all conflict in books the other 25% of my reading slows me down greatly because I am invested in the story/topic, and the writing is more dense. Don’t judge profuse readers by whether they can retain details from every book. Celebrate them because they find joy in so many different books. Independently published authors need us to find and celebrate them. Casual readers will never give them the traction they need.
If you read on all your work breaks, read instead of watch TV, and listen to audiobooks while walking/driving/chores etc you can get a lot of reading done. I also bring a book with me wherever I go, in case there is down/waiting time (like car service etc). I still have to work and I have other hobbies like videos and art projects (and love chonky books too) so I can't read a book a day everyday, but typically read 2-3 books a week depending on their length. There are just so many good books out there.. I wish I could read 'em all! 😅
Being a fast reader and an insomniac helps. I used to be able to go through a few books every week like that before college. Now, I'm lucky if I get through one in a month lol
For those of us who go through our entire collection of books 3 times in less than 6 months, fall in love with 8 different characters, all the while getting the plots, tropes, and story lines mixed up causing it all to get jumbled up into a singular drama story because you are simply try to escape your life!!!
The key is to learn to ignore everyone and everything other than the words on the page. No distractions means endless reading time. Anywhere. Football game, band concert no problem
I read like a book everyday and start a new one in the middle of the night.... I'm addicted, especially if it's part of a series and I can get my hands on it immediately.
In middle and high school I remember checking out several books each week from the library. Once I discovered manga I started checking out the limit I could carry every time, and using my belt buckle to prop the tall pile on in my arms. Somehow I kept all the story lines straight, despite reading (at minimum) three series' at a time! Yup, I'm the freak of nature! 😅
Meeeeee!! My school library had a 3 book limit and I'd be there dailyy. Then I figured out that the public library had a 30 book limit AND had whole collections of manga series (back when anime/manga wasnt as popular), i had it all to myself💕 went there at least once a week, wish i didn't have to work, and i could read all day like back then😢
Mine too! I would leave with an armful of books and be back with them by the end of the week. I would read 5 books a week on average but I could read up to 9.
@@leviathan1140 what makes it funnier is I’m legally blind, use a white cane kinda legally blind so it was this short scrawny albino girl with a cane in one hand and a pile of books in the other
Yeah, I would max out the number of books I could get in the morning before school, then drop them all off the next morning. Now, I have neither the attention span nor the trauma to escape from, so I'll go through an audiobook or 2 a day, 2-3 days a week.
I used to read a book everyday. When I was in middle and high-school 😅. I never found the time to do it again since. But time to time, I just take a book and spend a delicious afternoon reading it from the beginning to the end. It is so good!
I read a book a day. Unless it's one of my 100+ chapter books. Then it takes me about 2 days to read that. But I also read on my phone so that may be apart of it.
My life was like that in high school. Then I started working, and also taking care of domestic labor others did for me before. That's when I realized having time to read for pleasure is more of a privilege than an accomplishment.
Audiobooks, my friends. You can listen while you do dishes and laundry. (It makes cleaning so much more fun!) If you have a long commute, you can read a LOT on your drive. My husband listened to a lot of books that way.
As someone who used to do this, it all comes down to 2 things: how fast you can read, and your levels of energy and motivation. I'm naturally a fast reader. My mind goes a 100km/h and I process text really fast, plus I grew up on subbed anime; so overall my reading speed is pretty good. If I have the energy and motivation for it, I can finish books pretty fast; I mean, I finished the entire Twilight series in 3 days because I had nothing else to read and I was so bored so it was interesting enough to keep me going. If you read text slowly, it's going to take more time obviously; but your energy and motivation are the determinant factors here: if you have no energy you'll struggle cause you're too tired to really process the text you're reading, and if you have no motivation you'll stall reading because the book isn't grabbing your attention for one reason or another. Also, you can't read if you have no time in your routine for it, so there's that too.
depends on the book's length, i think. approximately 1 or 2 books per month. especially if the book is complicated, i can spend more than a month to read 1 book. i'm not an english native speaker, so many times i have to re-read a whole page to understand what is happening 😂 got real life going on too. oh. bless to whoever created online dictionary. it helps me a lot. muah❤
Imagine if there was a library you could teleport to that summoned the book you would enjoy most from any time in the past, present and future. You could read forever and never have to wait for a sequel or struggle to find more books to read.
It helps if you complained of boredom in the summer of your 9th year and someone gave you a vintage speed-reading course that had been mouldering in the back of a closet.
Big hugs, I don't read that that often but I feel you can I have obsessive compulsive disorder so when I get into it I read everything from an author and I neglect my friends and family and everything else just like other things that I do. Big hugs ❤. I get it in a very small way. As I really love the books that I do and I wish I could read them again for the first time.❤
I started reading seriously this year. Novel, webtoon and I'm moving onto manga as well now. Honestly I didn't think I would have this much fun reading
I once grabbed 5 books from the library thinking that it would survive me till the end of the week… it didn’t even survive me till the end of the day 😭
You are going to be such a wonderful mother! I can already tell how much love you have for her and I hope your journey is full of more beautiful memories ❤
I feel like being able to enjoy reading is a superpower skill not available to many people, but people’s level of phantasia and their upbringing & introduction to reading really seem to be major factors in determining whether people can enjoy reading.
Me But like it took me a month to atyd cause to many crying,screaming,wishing I had a Mauraders friendships, me crying cuz ik who dies, me crying cause he left grant in the dust, me raging bc Sirius is an oblivious fuck, me laughing my ass off bc it was over the covers, me being tooooooo excited when he came out, me talking w the ghost in my room for comfort bc im confused, happy, sad, and jealous at the same time,, then after i read atyd i related every Taylor swift song w them, then i tried to make moony toast………. It was a long process but im happy i read it……….i CanT waIT to rEaD it AGAin
The answer is audiobooks, you listen to them as background while you do other tasks, like cooking, driving or even data entry in a more mundane job. I am a full time teacher (science btw) and I get through a book every other day when I am really into it, and could easily get through them daily. I did fully get through the Iron Flame Series in 3 days, each is around 22 hrs each on audiobook. It is also dependent on the books you choose. The more you like the books the more you will be likely to read them making it easier.
I fell back in love with reading just 3 weeks ago when I picked up an unread book that collected dust on my bookshelf for 2 years now. I read that book in 3 days. Then I read a books series of 5 books in less than 10 days, then I read another series of 6 books plus some smaller novelas in less than a week, eventually reading 1+ book a day. Unfortunately I just got back to work today so I wont be able to keep this up but it was one of the best 3 weeks I had in a long time. I have to read 2.5 books till the end of April and then I can brag that I read 3 book series, a total of 20 books, in less than a month
Seriously. This is so true. Whenever I compare myself to my friends, I feel like they are far ahead of me. Yet there are some people who think I read a lot.
I have been all of these readers. Went by the library after school and exchanged books for a while. I later swapped to just reading at the library. When I read a Dan Brown book I tested the speed of my reading. I chose Dan Brown because I had the impression that I read those books the fastest due to the contents being very shallow. I set an alarm to go off every 10 minutes and read for 40 minutes, noting what page I was on whenever the alarm went off. I did this three consecutive days and got an average of a bit more than 3 pages per minute. The lost symbol has got around 520 pages. That was about 2.5 hours of reading. 1984 has got a bit over 300 pages. That was around 3 hours of reading. Ian McEwan's The Children Act has around 250 pages. That was about 2 hours of reading. I got my hands on The Gathering Storm on a saturday. That was the whole day spent reading, but I got it done in a day. I am currently not reading much at all. Doing my thesis at the university and all reading feels like a chore at the moment.
Here’s a book I made I’m young so don’t judge A story of a little dragon and boy Chapter one:heroic boy and dragon Once upon a time a young boy lived in a village. He loved his family, his pets and especially his little pet dragon. The way he got the little dragon was many years ago when he was a young kid a massive FIRE BREATHING dragon came to the village he lived in. It brunt down all the houses and left nothing besides an egg. The boys family, the Garcia family came to help and rebuild the village. Since the boy was young and curious he took the egg and cared for it. Once the egg hatched he showed it to all the people in the village they saw the dragon and instantly they were scared of it. But the little boy showed them it was friendly. By having it giving a little girl on the side a hug The next day, the boy was playing with the dragon until the massive fire breathing dragon came back. When the villagers saw the massive dragon they ran into their houses because of fear even the little boy hid. But the little dragon wasn’t scared so he tried protecting the village but the massive dragon was too powerfull. But after the villagers saw the little dragon being brave they all came out of their houses and started to fight the massive dragon. The massive dragon tried to hit the boy when he was hiding but the little dragon saved the boy. After that the boy felt braver so he helped the little dragon and the villagers to defeat the massive dragon. After a long fight the dragon flew away. After all that the village was safe from the fire breathing dragon. All the villagers clapped and cheered because without the boy and the dragon the whole village would be brunt to ashes.
my mom reads books in a day and i’m literally so jealous of her SHES ALWAYS READING i can’t focus long enough to read all day but ive been getting better loll
Back in middle school I was my class' "library deputy": every Friday I'd pick up the cards of my classmates who wanted to borrow books from the school library and the books they were returning. I shuffled around those that were going from a classmate to another, did the rest of the exchanges. They could borrow three books per week. I say "they" because I was borrowing two daily and five for the weekend.
When my mom was alive she read about 5 books a day. She would get upset if I went onto her not read pile of books to read a book. I got grounded until I finished the book. The day that my mom had a major stroke we went to the book store to pick up a new Laurell K. Halmiton book and few other books that I preordered. I gave my mom 4 out of the 5 books to read before me. She dropped me off with a book and she took the others to her place to read. By the time I finished one book she brought back my other books read and a pot of macaroni and cheese so I didn't have to stop reading and feed my own kids. I miss my mom.
I'm that person who finished a book every week, and if I really try, could finish that book in a day. I just decide not to since going through the hassel of finding another book is horrible and takes forever. It's why I like reading manga, with updated episodes every week. Definitely has taught me patience and that the story isn't going anywhere.
When I was little and my add was worse I could 100% read three books in one day simultaneously especially when I was off my meds. I definitely worried my mother.
Depends on the book. Small, easygoing romance novels are like a light afternoon snack. Then again I was struggling with some books so badly it took me months to finish them. Stan Nadolny nearly got me quitting after two weeks. I was falling asleep just a few minutes in.
A book a day keeps the people away, and I’m an introvert
😂😂😂I love that
I want this
Same
Same. I only talk through devices
@HollyBryx Seriously can I turn your statement into a quote plaque?
Hugs
meanwhile fanfic readers having their 200k word afternoon snack
This is so real
That's 1 to 4 pages for some of fanfics
I feel called out
And when people ask what I’ve been reading, suddenly I’m not reading anything 😂
@@Darkest_Shadowikr, U can't tell them what ur actually reading or they'll stare at u weirdly😢
"But I see you with a new book every month!"
Bold of you to assume I finished those other ones.
Exactly
VERYY bold
@@rebeca5270that's a really unfair system but ok
I'm the exact opposite, I've been going everywhere with the same book in hand for the last two months but reading 3 books a week on average (5 or more if they're short stories)
I've read a book....well most of it....okay I've opened one.....
I used to consistently read like 4-5 books a week when i was a teenager. I miss those days
Same
I am a teenager and read that amount every week. I've read literally every book in my school library, even the ones that didn't interest me. I've read over half of the books at me public library and am have over one hundred books at home that I've read
I am fairly certain that I am one of the reasons that our public library has a limitation of 50 books.
Oh yes... Those sweet sweet times, where there is no work, house chores, tax and bills, only homework, exams and house chores.
@@phoenixxena8194I wish. Unfortunately I have to work full time at my family farm, do chores at my own house, homework, manage everything I'm involved in FFA wise, take care of all my bank account things, and make sure I babysit enough on my days off so I have money for gas cause I don't get paid to work on the farm. I only get to read so much cause I stay up really late and get maybe 5 hours of sleep
Me during vacation: a book every 2 weeks
Me during exams: a book every 4 hrs
That is literally me rn😂
Nooo cuz why is this literally me? Whenever exams come around my brain can't focus on anything but reading and vacation time is like ewww who reads not me
I don’t even finish the books for the essays 😭
How true! And those are the books remotely similar to your exam syllabus
Nooo....thats soo tRuE😂
Remember guys reading isn't a competition. Doesn't matter how much you read just that you're having fun doing it. 😊
I’m sure no one is reading Infinite Jest in one day and fully comprehending as well
I’m going to win (:
It is ABSOLUTELY a competition!!!!
Wiser words have never been said😔😔
It is not a competition. But I will win
I either read a book a day or don’t pick up a book for months straight
Godaym
Ive heard of such people
Ive tried it, but it got too straining
Thats some 4 months worth of focus harnessed into a day type of stuf
Bro same 😂
Same! That’s actually why I don’t read that often anymore. If I can’t commit an entire day or weekend straight to the hyper focus I can’t even start. Trying to read just a chapter here and there is so torturous!
Yeah!
I can relate to that
That person who reads a whole book everyday is that one unemployed friend 😂
fr lmao cause there’s no other way😭
I'm unemployed and yes I read 1-2 400 page books a day
@@ferdinandthefamousyour unemployed because your a child.
lol nah you just haven't discovered how much time you have if you just don't sleep!
I’m currently unemployed but I usually finish a book in 5 days to a week lol 😂
Love that I went "Not from a Jedi" almost in sync with her. I feel validated.
I need atleast a semester to sort of understand a course book
When I was unemployed and used reading (amongst other things) as escapism, I went through a book a day. Ahh, good times. Now I work and I'm so tired all the time I barely get to read MAYBE 5-10 books a year... I don't think I can even consider myself a reader, it's such a drastic shift 🙁
You are still a reader! Life just gets in the way because adulting 😂
I went through a phase like that; twas sad. Thankfully, when I started working in lawn care at a place that gives multiple lengthy breaks, and when I simultaneously found Wingfeather, my inner bibliophile was able to reawaken!
Unfortunately, I am currently in the state of wanting more Wingfeather, but facing the fact that that series is finished.....
@@olimar7647
That is the dream job then😂 Count yourself lucky, buddy, with feeling adrift because a beloved series is over. I recently started reading the second and third book of a series I liked (the series was only OK, but I was in love with the characters) the first book of when I read it, a couple of years ago. After falling in love with the characters again, even more so than then maybe, since I got to know them better, I went to buy the fourth and...ta-da! The author retired and the series is officially left for dead. Talk about feeling adrift T_T
@samevans1289 Oof! That's rough. That happened to me with the *Swipe* series. Guy left us on a cliffhanger after the 4th book, and not the sort of cliffhanger that works for the end of a story; moreso the kind that leads into the final and climatic book....
And yeah, it's a nice job! I wish it wasn't such an early morning, and I'll probably have to get another job in time for better pay, but for my current spot in life, 'tis good, honest work
Sometimes I read a book a day sometimes I read a book a week and sometimes I read a book every cantorial moon 🌙😁
Sometimes I read five books a day, and sometimes I read five books in five months
This is so real it just depends on if I have access to good books and if I’m in the mood
What... It took me 1 WHOLE YEAR to finish the 4th Harry Potter book . Because I'm lazy
@@Not_Maleeza2 woah it took me two days 💀
Same here
The school librarian used to hate my "3 books a day" self. Good times😂
They were jealous 😂
Mine loved me, she'd chuckle at me. I was one of the few who could rent more that 3 at a time. It was fun. I was one of her favorite students.
@@atlantasatlantis13420 Preach.
My school had student librarians, and I read so much that I was appointed as head librarian. Still got the badge to this day.
Id just hide among the shelves during breaks and "forget" to go to class on time, our library was always deserted so nobody ever found me😂
When I was 13, I was given the first three Harry Potter books for Christmas (sheltered homeschool life 😂) I had them all read before lunch. It remains one of my proudest achievements 😊
As a hufflepuff, I am extremely proud
That's incredible. I once read the entire series within 2 weeks, but it wasn't very satisfying. What I mean by that is, I read it so fast that I didn't really get the chance to enjoy it, and I barely remember it. The only reason I did it was bc I challenged myself to finish it in winter break, which here lasts 2 weeks.
I mean, I got the entire Harry Potter book set as a birthday gift, and my dad didn't want ne reading any of it and told me I'd have to return it. So I read all seven books, at night, in about a week. And then had to give them back to the family who gave me it because I didn't want to lose the set.
@@Darealcyclic that is both really impressive and really sad
@@Coolkrobird eh, it was my dad, if I had my way I'd have kept the set, it was a really good set too. Like it was the one that was a chest with a plastic clasp for keeping it closed and some stickers as well, like- I knew it was a pretty good gift, expensive, and to return that because my dad didn't like it? Like, I wanted to read it- hello?
I actually can't stop if I am reading a book. I almost always end up completing it in a day (Like binge watching series? but better.)
But due to this habit I have stopped myself from reading as i often forget I need to do other things too 😭😭
Same 😂
This is why I listen to audiobooks. It doesn't work for everyone, but I can do other things (cook, exercise, drive, walk the dog, etc) while listening to a book.
@@waterartdragon thanks, I think I should try it then because I have tried many ways to stop myself and it doesn't work.
I love getting completely engrossed in a book! Blake Crouch books are perfect for that. Also the Green Bone Saga (Jade City trilogy) by Fonda Lee and the Founders trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett are some other favorites I read this year.
My trick is to have a set of time when I have to do chores. Shopping groceries 1xweek for 20mins. Deep house cleaning once a week on saturday for 2 hours. Laundry 1xweek. Cooking meal 1 hour a day for 2~3 meal time.
So other than those times, I could dedicate those times to binge reading or binge watching. And I don't feel gulity cause I have finished my responsibilities first.
But I'm single....so it's achievable. 😂
".. Not from a Jedi " 😂😂
The trick is to read multiple books at once. I usually have one fiction and one non-fiction. Best if they're different lengths as well.
You get full of one, you move to the other. You finish one, it spurs you to finish the other and start another.
I also find that choice paralysis is weakened when you know you have another book going and there is less shame when putting a book down because you're just picking up the other like planned.
I used to do that (still do) but 5 years later I ended up with 400 books 😅😅
And I don’t regret (unless your counting my crying wallet)
I do this too!! Glad to know I’m not the only one 😂
So do you find you retain most of the plot? or that you get the value from reading simultaneously just the same as reading just one book from start to finish?
I kinda do that. I have several manga that I read a chapter of each every night
Me who does 4-5 at a time
Love this! “Not… from a Jedi [evil laugh]”
I’ve had days where I went through 4 or five books.
Teach me Ur ways
@@iosifcosminlazar3106 books on tape and no sleep. I work full time, own a side business, love to crochet, and have two teenage sons, but I rarely have a day where I don’t read (or listen to) at least half a book and attempt a cryptic sudoku. I have to for mental health. It balances and relaxed me at the end of the day.
@@ChristyDavis77 thank u master
And you read everything, skipped nothing? I don't think so.
@@cinemaatrium3863 I never said I absorb everything I read. 75% of the books I read are fluff, enjoyable, escapism. I get lost in the story, and when I close the covers as I read the last sentence, details are put aside for a general feeling of “kick ass author, with at least a 90% editor.” (Bad editing makes me drop a book after the 5th missed error, regardless of how good the story is.)
I love reading books that are part of a story universe, but have to refresh my memory in each book of the characters.
Bottom line, reading for me, is one of my happy places. For my daily books, I don’t read books where I have to skip parts because they are boring or I find the content thick or I have to slow my pace to absorb whats going on so I know what’s going on later. I read books with lots of witty, clever dialogue, fun dialogue, and happy story lines (life outside of books is messed up enough that I don’t want anything too messy in my moments I escape from it).
That isn’t to say that avoid all conflict in books the other 25% of my reading slows me down greatly because I am invested in the story/topic, and the writing is more dense.
Don’t judge profuse readers by whether they can retain details from every book. Celebrate them because they find joy in so many different books. Independently published authors need us to find and celebrate them. Casual readers will never give them the traction they need.
Book goblin is way too relatable
If you read on all your work breaks, read instead of watch TV, and listen to audiobooks while walking/driving/chores etc you can get a lot of reading done. I also bring a book with me wherever I go, in case there is down/waiting time (like car service etc). I still have to work and I have other hobbies like videos and art projects (and love chonky books too) so I can't read a book a day everyday, but typically read 2-3 books a week depending on their length. There are just so many good books out there.. I wish I could read 'em all! 😅
Being a fast reader and an insomniac helps. I used to be able to go through a few books every week like that before college. Now, I'm lucky if I get through one in a month lol
For those of us who go through our entire collection of books 3 times in less than 6 months, fall in love with 8 different characters, all the while getting the plots, tropes, and story lines mixed up causing it all to get jumbled up into a singular drama story because you are simply try to escape your life!!!
This is me except it's before highschool
The key is to learn to ignore everyone and everything other than the words on the page. No distractions means endless reading time. Anywhere. Football game, band concert no problem
and then there's me, reading one 300 page book at the speed of three years
The Star Wars quote I can’t 😭😭
A book a day is the happiest time in life
I read like a book everyday and start a new one in the middle of the night.... I'm addicted, especially if it's part of a series and I can get my hands on it immediately.
In middle and high school I remember checking out several books each week from the library. Once I discovered manga I started checking out the limit I could carry every time, and using my belt buckle to prop the tall pile on in my arms. Somehow I kept all the story lines straight, despite reading (at minimum) three series' at a time!
Yup, I'm the freak of nature! 😅
I love Mangas, too. My Library recently added Dragan Ball Z, Demon Slayer and I think I saw a couple One Piece Mangas.
Meeeeee!! My school library had a 3 book limit and I'd be there dailyy. Then I figured out that the public library had a 30 book limit AND had whole collections of manga series (back when anime/manga wasnt as popular), i had it all to myself💕 went there at least once a week, wish i didn't have to work, and i could read all day like back then😢
YESSSS
I did something very similar
Ya see the book a day one? Me
My high school library was confused by me
Mine too! I would leave with an armful of books and be back with them by the end of the week. I would read 5 books a week on average but I could read up to 9.
The best look was when i turned in the book i got at the beginning of the day...
@@leviathan1140 what makes it funnier is I’m legally blind, use a white cane kinda legally blind so it was this short scrawny albino girl with a cane in one hand and a pile of books in the other
Yeah, I would max out the number of books I could get in the morning before school, then drop them all off the next morning. Now, I have neither the attention span nor the trauma to escape from, so I'll go through an audiobook or 2 a day, 2-3 days a week.
You sound like an awesome anime character. Not to make light of your issues. No offense meant. @@shinomusume4146
Bro i love the book goblin, he/she/ they are soo cuteeee❤😂😂😂
I read 5 books a week just to advoid talking to classmates 💀💀💀
The book goblin always makes me smile
I used to read a book everyday. When I was in middle and high-school 😅. I never found the time to do it again since. But time to time, I just take a book and spend a delicious afternoon reading it from the beginning to the end. It is so good!
This is why I love audiobooks, I switch between 3, my long journey book, my work drive book, and my gaming book.
And I’ll be carrying a new book every year 😂
I read a book a day. Unless it's one of my 100+ chapter books. Then it takes me about 2 days to read that.
But I also read on my phone so that may be apart of it.
I read two/three books a week and I’m very proud of myself for it!
Same, it usually takes me about 2 and a half days to read one book!!
Same here! The longest it ever took me to read a book was 8.5 days and that was a 1200 page novel!
My life was like that in high school. Then I started working, and also taking care of domestic labor others did for me before. That's when I realized having time to read for pleasure is more of a privilege than an accomplishment.
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I barely have the energy to keep my eyes open after work I haven't been able to sit down and read a whole book in years. I miss it so much
Audio books from the library are a great way to rest your eyes.
Audio books are great if you can listen to them.
Sometimes it takes me a day to read a book, and sometimes it takes me week.
The laugh at the end caught me off guard.
Audiobooks, my friends. You can listen while you do dishes and laundry. (It makes cleaning so much more fun!) If you have a long commute, you can read a LOT on your drive. My husband listened to a lot of books that way.
As someone who used to do this, it all comes down to 2 things: how fast you can read, and your levels of energy and motivation.
I'm naturally a fast reader. My mind goes a 100km/h and I process text really fast, plus I grew up on subbed anime; so overall my reading speed is pretty good.
If I have the energy and motivation for it, I can finish books pretty fast; I mean, I finished the entire Twilight series in 3 days because I had nothing else to read and I was so bored so it was interesting enough to keep me going.
If you read text slowly, it's going to take more time obviously; but your energy and motivation are the determinant factors here: if you have no energy you'll struggle cause you're too tired to really process the text you're reading, and if you have no motivation you'll stall reading because the book isn't grabbing your attention for one reason or another.
Also, you can't read if you have no time in your routine for it, so there's that too.
Then there's us fanfic reader who usually go through 5-10 an hour depending on the length of
a book a day keeps the sadness away
depends on the book's length, i think. approximately 1 or 2 books per month.
especially if the book is complicated, i can spend more than a month to read 1 book. i'm not an english native speaker, so many times i have to re-read a whole page to understand what is happening 😂 got real life going on too.
oh. bless to whoever created online dictionary. it helps me a lot. muah❤
Somewhere on this planet someone exists that hears audiobooks and reads a book at the same time i just feel like it
Don’t forget book goblin who reads every second 😂❤
There's never enough books. I just finished my third book today, and they were all proper length novels.
You are strong with this power
Even reading 3 full novel length books you'll never read every book in existence as of this moment. You are fine
Imagine if there was a library you could teleport to that summoned the book you would enjoy most from any time in the past, present and future. You could read forever and never have to wait for a sequel or struggle to find more books to read.
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I’m the book a week person during school and when I am bored, a book a month on breaks when I am having fun.
You're the person I used to be when I was still in school XD
I work from 5am- 6pm every day and still go through a book every 2-3 days 😂
It helps if you complained of boredom in the summer of your 9th year and someone gave you a vintage speed-reading course that had been mouldering in the back of a closet.
Big hugs, I don't read that that often but I feel you can I have obsessive compulsive disorder so when I get into it I read everything from an author and I neglect my friends and family and everything else just like other things that I do. Big hugs ❤. I get it in a very small way. As I really love the books that I do and I wish I could read them again for the first time.❤
I’m that one introverted friend with a new book every 3 days ✨💅
The only thing I like about myself
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Sammmmeee💙💙
I started reading seriously this year. Novel, webtoon and I'm moving onto manga as well now. Honestly I didn't think I would have this much fun reading
I went from not having read anything in the past year to reading a book a day.
Thank you ACOTAR
Girl...there's so many books out there that are actually worth reading with a real plot
" You just gotta be a freak of nature I guess?"
* Unknown book goblin noise *
I once grabbed 5 books from the library thinking that it would survive me till the end of the week… it didn’t even survive me till the end of the day 😭
You are going to be such a wonderful mother! I can already tell how much love you have for her and I hope your journey is full of more beautiful memories ❤
As someone who has infact read one if not two books in one day this is so real its insane
The way this made me absolutely cackle - AND THEN THE VIDEO HAD THE SAME CACKLE I WAS DOING, SO I CACKLED HARDER
I feel like being able to enjoy reading is a superpower skill not available to many people, but people’s level of phantasia and their upbringing & introduction to reading really seem to be major factors in determining whether people can enjoy reading.
I read all of Titan's Curse in an afternoon in the fifth grade. I've not done anything like that since.
Me who is a student, has 9 hours of classes everyday, yet still finishes a book a day as entertainment: 0.o
I miss having the time to read like that. I do consume them in audio form now though. Much faster to read the physical copy though.
Me who reads 1000s of pages of fanfiction per day:
Me
But like it took me a month to atyd cause to many crying,screaming,wishing I had a Mauraders friendships, me crying cuz ik who dies, me crying cause he left grant in the dust, me raging bc Sirius is an oblivious fuck, me laughing my ass off bc it was over the covers, me being tooooooo excited when he came out, me talking w the ghost in my room for comfort bc im confused, happy, sad, and jealous at the same time,, then after i read atyd i related every Taylor swift song w them, then i tried to make moony toast………. It was a long process but im happy i read it……….i CanT waIT to rEaD it AGAin
@@LizHays-oy4vi I swear Taylor is in the Marauders fandom! ATYD was for sure an emotional roller coaster
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Fanfic reader and a speed reader here. I reread books over and over again.
There's also those of us who will happily listen to a book as we are working and go through about one a day again
The blanket is so relatable tho!!!!
I'M the Person who goes through a book a DAY!
I read 7 to 8 books a week..
B.S.
@@adriande1 I do though, lmfao. I’m a quick reader and I also have a lot of downtime
i read 6-7 a day 0-0... i may or may not raid my libreary
That is SO adorable!
@@croww18 interesting
That was an incredible Mother Talzin impression, ma'am ❤
Me being the one who goes through a book everyday 😹😭
i’ve gone through 3 books today because i am insane and sick mentally and physically
Hi, I'm that friend who reads it in like 2-3 days. The trick is to procrastinate on everything else. And practice. A lot of it.
Ah yes, another person who escaped using books.
Ya it’s quite sad honestly. It’s just a fantasy it’s like drugs. Escaping your reality
@@Hdkrbrjfofjfndkelehow??? I'm generally confused how is reading bad?
And then we have book goblin goes through a book every minute haha
The answer is audiobooks, you listen to them as background while you do other tasks, like cooking, driving or even data entry in a more mundane job. I am a full time teacher (science btw) and I get through a book every other day when I am really into it, and could easily get through them daily. I did fully get through the Iron Flame Series in 3 days, each is around 22 hrs each on audiobook. It is also dependent on the books you choose. The more you like the books the more you will be likely to read them making it easier.
I can read a book every day and I have a 40 hr a week job. It's easy especially if the book is 200-300 pages. Just don't watch TV.
Guess I'm a freak of nature I can go through a book every hour
I don't read a book every day, but i can finish a heartstopper book in just a few minutes😅
"Is it possible to learn this power?"
It's called having an amount of free time I envy.
I finish reading or listening to books within 1-3 days. It depends on how interested I am in the book and if I'm avalible to read.
I love books!
I fell back in love with reading just 3 weeks ago when I picked up an unread book that collected dust on my bookshelf for 2 years now. I read that book in 3 days. Then I read a books series of 5 books in less than 10 days, then I read another series of 6 books plus some smaller novelas in less than a week, eventually reading 1+ book a day.
Unfortunately I just got back to work today so I wont be able to keep this up but it was one of the best 3 weeks I had in a long time. I have to read 2.5 books till the end of April and then I can brag that I read 3 book series, a total of 20 books, in less than a month
Reading all of the Wheel of Time in 3 weeks remains one of my proudest accomplishments
Honestly, it just depends on the book. If its good, you *know* im grinding on the whole series until my eyes bleed. If its bad…
Seriously. This is so true. Whenever I compare myself to my friends, I feel like they are far ahead of me. Yet there are some people who think I read a lot.
That's the right way to do it. Always compare yourself to people who are doing better so that you can try to be better and not rest on your laurels
Wasn’t expecting the Star Wars reference. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
During the summers when I was in high school and when I worked at libraries... yes, I could definitely powerhouse books.
I have been all of these readers. Went by the library after school and exchanged books for a while. I later swapped to just reading at the library.
When I read a Dan Brown book I tested the speed of my reading. I chose Dan Brown because I had the impression that I read those books the fastest due to the contents being very shallow.
I set an alarm to go off every 10 minutes and read for 40 minutes, noting what page I was on whenever the alarm went off. I did this three consecutive days and got an average of a bit more than 3 pages per minute.
The lost symbol has got around 520 pages. That was about 2.5 hours of reading.
1984 has got a bit over 300 pages. That was around 3 hours of reading.
Ian McEwan's The Children Act has around 250 pages. That was about 2 hours of reading.
I got my hands on The Gathering Storm on a saturday. That was the whole day spent reading, but I got it done in a day.
I am currently not reading much at all. Doing my thesis at the university and all reading feels like a chore at the moment.
The laugh at the end is priceless 😂
I used to go to the library every day and check out five new books. I miss those days.
can i just say i LOVE your frozen shirt!
“You just gotta be a freak of nature I guess”
I have been summoned
It’s because I read so fast that I suffer 😅. I once read the last book in my series (600 pages) in two nights. The amount of regret I felt was crazy.
Here’s a book I made I’m young so don’t judge
A story of a little dragon and boy
Chapter one:heroic boy and dragon
Once upon a time a young boy lived in a village. He loved his family, his pets and especially his little pet dragon. The way he got the little dragon was many years ago when he was a young kid a massive FIRE BREATHING dragon came to the village he lived in. It brunt down all the houses and left nothing besides an egg. The boys family, the Garcia family came to help and rebuild the village. Since the boy was young and curious he took the egg and cared for it. Once the egg hatched he showed it to all the people in the village they saw the dragon and instantly they were scared of it. But the little boy showed them it was friendly. By having it giving a little girl on the side a hug
The next day, the boy was playing with the dragon until the massive fire breathing dragon came back. When the villagers saw the massive dragon they ran into their houses because of fear even the little boy hid. But the little dragon wasn’t scared so he tried protecting the village but the massive dragon was too powerfull. But after the villagers saw the little dragon being brave they all came out of their houses and started to fight the massive dragon. The massive dragon tried to hit the boy when he was hiding but the little dragon saved the boy. After that the boy felt braver so he helped the little dragon and the villagers to defeat the massive dragon. After a long fight the dragon flew away. After all that the village was safe from the fire breathing dragon. All the villagers clapped and cheered because without the boy and the dragon the whole village would be brunt to ashes.
1k likes I’ll pst chapter two
my mom reads books in a day and i’m literally so jealous of her SHES ALWAYS READING i can’t focus long enough to read all day but ive been getting better loll
Back in middle school I was my class' "library deputy": every Friday I'd pick up the cards of my classmates who wanted to borrow books from the school library and the books they were returning. I shuffled around those that were going from a classmate to another, did the rest of the exchanges. They could borrow three books per week.
I say "they" because I was borrowing two daily and five for the weekend.
When my mom was alive she read about 5 books a day. She would get upset if I went onto her not read pile of books to read a book. I got grounded until I finished the book.
The day that my mom had a major stroke we went to the book store to pick up a new Laurell K. Halmiton book and few other books that I preordered. I gave my mom 4 out of the 5 books to read before me. She dropped me off with a book and she took the others to her place to read. By the time I finished one book she brought back my other books read and a pot of macaroni and cheese so I didn't have to stop reading and feed my own kids. I miss my mom.
I'm that person who finished a book every week, and if I really try, could finish that book in a day. I just decide not to since going through the hassel of finding another book is horrible and takes forever. It's why I like reading manga, with updated episodes every week. Definitely has taught me patience and that the story isn't going anywhere.
Fanfiction is a way to learn that power
When I was little and my add was worse I could 100% read three books in one day simultaneously especially when I was off my meds. I definitely worried my mother.
Depends on the book. Small, easygoing romance novels are like a light afternoon snack. Then again I was struggling with some books so badly it took me months to finish them. Stan Nadolny nearly got me quitting after two weeks. I was falling asleep just a few minutes in.