How many pages do you read per day?
50 when I'm not motivated to read
100 on a normal day
150 when I'm liking the book so much
The again, I'm a NEET.
Extremely relative given the size of this book and that book, and how youd have to caluclate to measure what you read digitally would fit as a standard book, etc.
Defining the standard of measurement would help too.
Most days I get to page 3 or 4 but sometimes I find an interesting thread on page 1 and stick to it while browsing porn.
who here actually reads lmao fucking nerds
I read about 550 one day last week but I don't do that regularly, I'd burn out.
These days I'm not very often in a mood to read, but sometimes I'll get excited about a book and read the whole thing in two or three days. I almost always read relatively short and concise books however. I'd guess offhand about 75 to 100 pages a day when I'm in one of these excitable moods.
>>7929162
kek
on average, probably 60 per day, but not consistently. some days I'll read 0 and some days I'll read 300 or more. depends on how much other shit I have to do.
Depends on the book. Probably 30. I don't read enough.
>>7929211
This. My sweet spot seems to be about 30-40. Sometimes 60 if it's especially engrossing, but not often.
>>7929169
>>7929156
>reading at most 150 pages despite being a NEET
what do you even do the entire day?
>>7929317
He probably spends too much time on the internet, like the rest of us.
>>7929151
35 on the average
Or like 100 if its interesting sci-fi/fantasy thing
>>7929151
I read for 1 hour a day. If the book/poetry is actually good, that may mean only 15 pages. Reading fast is not something to be proud of necessarily. You can't read a 1 page Shakespeare sonnet in 1 minute then immediately move to the next one. You'll miss so much.
>>7929151
I can do 150, tough it is quite demanding
>>7929151
20 if I'm feeling tired.
30 - 50 if I'm busy/occupied with other things.
60 - 80 if have other things to do but I'm just putting things off/procrastinating.
100 if I have nothing else to do.
I think it also depends on the type of book. I personally found it very easy to read George Orwell's works quickly and I manage 100+ pages a day of his works and similar authors but something more like Pynchon or Joyce will take me a lot longer.
>>7929365
>do you live with your parents
Does that really surprise you on a website with mostly early 20 somethings?
~100
I also watch ~1-2 movies a day.And I work.
I read 53 pages
>>7929365
I live on a 10k habitants rural town with my mother; mailman comes every other day with a bunch of books. It's a comfy lifestyle, sucks to be leaving again to the 10 million people metropole next year though.
>>7929225
Same.
What was the biggest amount of pages you've read on one day? For me 400
>>7929151
63. No more, no less.
Depends on what I'm reading and how interested I am. Whether I've just started or nearing the end. Whether I catch the bus or not. Whether my gf is interested enough in her book to read together, or if she feels like "us" time. Whether I smoke or drink, or not.
Who fucking cares?
I try to get 30 minutes a day in, which isn't much but then I'm a lazy piece of shit
probably 750-1000
>>7929525
If you say so, but I believe in you anon.
>>7929393
I remember back when I was a senior in highschool I had some pretty bad mental health issues, so I was constantly missing school, but I was in love with the A Song of Ice and Fire series at the same time as well. One night I went to bed with A Clash of Kings, and I was a little way past the mid-mark. I read for awhile and started getting really engrossed in the book just as the Battle of Blackwater Bay was starting. It got to be something like 3am when I just thought, Fuck it, I'll skip school in the morning to sleep and finish this book tonight, come hell or high water. I ended up reading around 300 pages, and finished just as the sun was starting to rise. I was going through a really bad depressive episode at the time but honestly that memory of reading in my bed all night was comfy as fuck. It was April or May so it was warm and I had the window open, and the whole atmosphere was really, really serene. That's a memory I'm going to cherish for a long time.
Sorry for sharing my diary with you all.
>>7929526
If that's not bs, can I ask how?
20-50
Probably like 20 minimum. I read every morning on the train to work. Usually on the train home I can read, so that's another 15 at least. Unless there's not a seat, then I usually skip reading since it's kind of hard to focus on reading and not falling over as people push past you. Some days I get up to around 100 or so.
So not a ton, but enough for me, I think.
>>7929541
it's alright, I like reading about people's special experiences when they're short and to the point
thank you for expressing yourself anon-kun
>>7929541
nice
>>7929381
9-5, brother
I find it easier to browse the catalogue instead of going through page by page :^)
30 - 100 depending on the book and other factors.
>>7929151
50-100.
Some days I don't read
>>7929151
A random prime number of pages. Big or small depending on the mood.
1200 pages per daay
>>7929151
For school: 150-300 pages a day
For leisure (articles, newspapers, blogs): 2500-3000 words
For fiction and non-fiction: 100-200 pages
>>7929151
Average so far for the year is about 75.
Full time job too.
I'm busy as fuck atm so I'm reading about a chapter a day. Which is about ~10 pages for the current book I'm reading. I know it's not a lot but after five hours of studying non-stop, my brain can only handle so much.
>>7929151
Anywhere from 0-500. I read 55 today. Might read more though.
Do people really plan this kind of thing out?
>>7930258
Autists. AKA 95% of this board
The way some of you approach reading is truly sad. It's not supposed to be treated as a race to higher efficiency between competing capitalists. You don't have a quota of 100,000 extra bottle caps (or something else equally mundane) to meet to avoid going bust. Applying cold rationality to book reading would disgust the very people whose books you're reading.
You're supposed to savour it. Take your time to enjoy the story and understand its message. It's supposed to be an experience.
>>7929365
>collect welfare
>save 30% of it because you're not a decadent
pretty easy my darling boy
>>7930299
fuck u, i just want to read as many masterpieces as i can
fuck u bitch boy
I cycle between not reading almost at all, and reading a fair amount of pages.
When i fall for my internet addiction and feel very nihilistic, i'll read about 4 pages per day; when i'm in a sober stable mood i will probably go for 50-65 pages a day.
>>7929365
Thank god for welfare, if i had to live the life of a wagecuck i would have ended it by now. my life is too important to waste.
>>7930299
>t. reads 20 minutes a day and shitposts 5 hours
20-40
Thanks for ask.
>>7930338
Just got some major deja vu while reading this.
I read at least 100 of prose and 20 of verse every day. If it's a weekend and the book is interesting I can read 300 in a day. Most I've read in a day was the last 600 pages of A Memory of Light because I wanted to get that shit over with.
>>7929151
Depends on how well I like the book. I'm a slow reader, but I can pick up the pace with some books.
I can do 10-20 with play scripts.
20 pages with a book I'm reading before bed.
50 with a book I'm reading while I'm alert in a quiet room.
I managed to read 80 pages in a day with this Jackson Bennett novel. That's my personal best.
>>7929151
Between 60 to 100, sometimes a lot more because of the reading I gotta do for collegge, which is a lot, but mostly between those numbers. I'm a slow reader.
5700 per second
0. I don't even really read, I just shitpost all day
Help me
>>7930340
Read Les Miserables.
I shoot for a nice round number. Divisible by ten or fifty.
>>7929156
this, though when i'm not motivated to read i usually don't read at all
>>7929156
Me too but I'm not a NEET...
Only 3or 4. But the pages are 1kilometer square.
>>7930340
>life too important
>doesn't have any skills that can be used in a satisfying and well remunerated career
elowel
>>7930143
mira?? lol
>>7930556
Him and 95% of humanity
Holy shit I'm retarded.
All this time I thought leftists were starry eyed idealists who didn't understand how the world works. Now I realize I was the idealist and a lot of leftists are ideologically more right than I am and have figured out how to beat the system.
>>7930564
those trademark green walls could be no one elses
>>7930340
how much do get on welfare?
>>7930556
>life is about being a good goy for society
>>7929541
Reading this made me feel comfy af.
>>7930613
>neet doesn't realize he has been niggerized by the juifs
the good goy is u my friend
>>7930590
>implying people are paid based on the value of contributions
>>7930616
>getting a thousand euros a month to wank in the market place
they sure got me!
>>7929379
>>7929381
>>7930328
>>7930340
Don't you guys feel like you just waste your time? I don't know how you can handle it.
I mean think about it, if youve been a NEET for about 3-4 years then you took an amount of time it takes to get a degree in something useful and threw it away. Could have become a doctor or learn to fly planes or at least earn a year of experience in something but you made no progress instead. It's not even a money thing it's just I don't know how people live like that for so long
>>7929151
I can read 80 pages a day and then my mind stops working.
>>7931051
Progress, usefulness and experience are very subjective concepts.
>>7931051
>4 years
>doctor
>>7931073
Fuck no. And if you think otherwise just try saying something like that in a job interview
around 120 pages, daily. if it's my good day it can be 250 pages or so. i can also just skip reading and do what we all do.
i read 20 pages per hour, so it depends on my free time on the day.
>>7931080
I am a medical doctor. But my love is literature, so I read fiction and philosophy when I can.
Like fifty? I only read during my lunch break.
>>7931051
You can't afford flying lessons or medical school if you're on welfare
You would have to work
You would have to work like your life depended on it to afford the tuition and even then you would be lucky to graduate.
To be a commercial pilot in canada you need 300 flight hours, as far as I remember a training plane cost 150-300 dollars an hour, and that's just for the newfag ones. You need multiple engine hours and those cost I think three or four times what the little aeroplanes cost. You also can't smoke weed or have brain problems lest you end up like that swiss guy.
>>7929151
Depends on the day. Sometimes I read only 30-50 in a short burst then go on to do something else, other times I can just sit in bed all day and read whole books without pause.
Today feels like the kinda day I don't wanna spend too much time reading.
>>7931140
Sounds like you just skim.
Buddy Glass read 400k words a day, the madman
>>7931153
Anyone can find a way to get that kind of money, and pay it off when you're done, be it a loan or a scholarship. You just need ambition and motivation for this kind of stuff.
>>7931051
>trying to reason with autists
Dude, stop. They're incapable of doing anything.
>>7931100
>it's wrong because the people who do job interviews say so
They really got you good, didn't they?
>>7931051
'Wasting time' is a nonsensical concept unless you have some clearly defined goal you're working towards. For example, if you want to be a pilot or any other arbitrary goal, the days you spend not working towards becoming a pilot may be said to be wasted. Likewise 'progress' also exists only when you have a specific point you're working towards. There's no such thing as general process.
If you don't dedicate your existence to any singular purpose, if you don't have some narrowly defined goal, there is no such thing as time to be wasted. Your time is to be spent freely rather than sacrificed to a hypothetical future state. If you just live without a framework of progress and productivity and usefulness and all kinds of ambitions you live in a way where you have nothing to prove and no obligation as long as you keep yourself warm and fed. A nap just becomes a nap rather than sinful procrastination.
The NEET life only seems bad if you still live your life with the mentality that there is something to be achieved, that there is something to be gained, that just to live is not enough. Once you're able to shake that mentality being a NEET is no longer a problem. If you chase after degrees and successes you supposedly do so because you think that sacrificing yourself to them now will make your future existence more enjoyable. If you learn to live in such a way that you do not need these things to be happy, you can start enjoying yourself right away.
Maybe 20 when I can have peace and quiet.
Less than 5 when people constantly bother me.
I once managed 150 in 2 days.
It isn't that reading is hard,but it requires your surroundings to be cooperative.
And most fags with a portable speaker will not turn it off even after asking.
Fucking machine music.It doesn't even have a good rythm.
>>7931051
>3-4 years then you took an amount of time it takes to get a degree in something useful and threw it away. Could have become a doctor or learn to fly planes
4 four years is the minimum get a bachelor, you don't know a lot but the basics, and in some degrees usually students go past four years to get their degree (like mathematics).
Where I live some people spend from 4 to 10 or 15 years to get their college degree. Most of them drop and go back several times - I suppose that one of the downsides of having free education for all levels (including graduate school), if you had to spend a lot of money on college, you'd probably study more...
>>7932536
Looks like someone believe in free will, kek.
>>7929375
>movies
oh deary me
>>7932917
I hate movies too. Don't know wether it's because i'm a spiritless piece of shit or if it's because they suck dick. I usually watch -if i do or when i do- whatever's popular at the moment though. M-maybe indie or old movies are bettah??
>>7932884
Whether will is free or not is irrelevant.
>>7932663
>not listening to dubstep wub wub shit while reading 150 pages a day
it's like you don't even want your brain fried at the end of the day
I read pages
I'm writer
>not reading the whole book in one sitting
>Reading pages
>Not just inhaling scroll like walls of text
I haven't picked up a physical book in years pleb, but I read something like 50,000 words worth of /lit/ daily.
>>7930564
Yes.
I started reading Stoner today, I really like it. I'm currently at page 152. So there's that.
>>7933116
>dem thick white latina thighs
fucking HNGGHHH
>>7932997
It still gets fried from listening to vubvub shit.
It's shit.
It sounds like my fathers workshop.
It's not music.
It will never be art.
I will always hate it.
>>7929162
LEL
>>7932929
Yeah I also kinda hate TV, but I still own one and watch it.
also 75 pg
>>7932536
You're absolutely right, my good friend, but what if you become so mentally empowered that you can go through all of higher education while maintaining the mental state of serenity and mindfulness that you extol?
Would it then not be preferable to get that degree, if only for the sake of security?
>>7929151
Quite a bit. Around ~200 depending on how heavy the lessons for class are on top of what I read independently.
>>7932884
>>7932977
>>7933190
The lengths you pathetic fucks go to justify being lazy fucks is absolutely autistic. You do know the people who wrote those philosophies that you abuse had jobs, were educated, etc.
This is why euthanasia should be mandatory. Or at least it should be legal to beat your children.
30 on a good day
0 on a bad one
>>7929151
i read "a portrait of the artist as a young man" in its entirety yesterday, for the first time. it really got its hooks into me, so that's not my usual pace with a philosophical treatise, or long-form poetry like milton.
>>7933246
Look, you hateful rat. I'm sorry your slavish existence has put you in such a bilious state that you feel the need to vomit your rancorous ideology onto others. If only you would realise how your words reflected on yourself, then you wouldn't be in such a state of needless distress.
Take a minute to reflect, if you could bare to spare the time.
>>7933246
what was socrates' job? he mooched off his friends, if i recall correctly.
>>7929151
I try to average at 30 a day.
I also wouldn't recommend the 10% strategy unless you're reading something relatively short.
>>7929169
Picture books don't count.
>>7933291
He raped his friend, Plato.
>>7933401
is that true?
>>7929151
Enough.
Why do you ask?
>>7933279
This projection. This ignorance. Massive autism.
>>7933448
your mind is so worn out from sitting at a desk for 50 hours a week that you cant even think of a better rebuttal than "autism"
go rest your head, if youre lucky you can get 6 hours in before you need to wake up early tomorrow
Currently reading IJ
>10-20 on a busy day or if I'm tired
>20-40 is the best. I absorb the material and don't gloss over everything
>40-60 if I have a lot of time
reading more than 60 a day of IJ would result in some skimming
>>7933479
>he thinks stating a fact is a poor argument because it gets memed
No, you actually do have autism.
>>>/r9k/
I'd tell you to go outside, but I am afraid you'll go a shooting spree. I know how unstable you are. They say it's the lack of ambition that causes you to attack those who do. Success only breeds contempt in the weak, the lazy, the autistic.
Don't worry, it is your fault. And there isn't anything that changing yourself completely wouldn't fix. But let's face it. That won't happen. You'll just keep blaming the rest of society for your problems and hide behind your misunderstood philosophy that you vomit up. It must be a shame waking up everyday and having to be you. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, because having an enemy who is as shitty as living life as you are just wouldn't be worthwhile or logical.
Have a nice day, even though I know you won't.
>>7933552
>this is what normies tell themselves to justify their voluntary slavery
