How are we all doing?
How do I cheat this one bros?
81 items finished, 369 incompletethe secret is to mix in a bit of easy reading slop with the more intellectually stimulating booksand become comfortable with dropping bad books
>>24842540Why would I want to turn reading into a challenge?
>>24842648Stop ruining the vibes with your pissy attitude grandpa
>>24842540might need to plow through some slim ones
Finishing Dracula
changed from 20 to 25, hopefully i can read 2 more books before the end of this year
>>24843140*forgot pic
>>24842648Performative pseudointellectualism is the core of /lit/.
Evertime these challenges gets posted I wonder, do you guys not read? How can you be active on a lit board and still not read? Do you not spend at least an hour a day reading?
>>24843614I thought these numbers were meant to be a joke. Like, if you read actively, there's no way to fall short of like 40-50 books a year.
>>24843620>>24843614You can’t post real reading numbers without the troglodytes being in uproar. They start posting about “retention” or “enjoyment” or some other cope. The most charitable interpretation is that the board is full of1) Zoomies struggling to read long form. 2) Oldfags busy with jobs and kids (on 4chimps? Lel)3) People who never actively developed a reading habit, probably never went to uni, struggle to read anything not on their highschool listsI have some sympathy if there’s a real reason. The Shallows by Carr lays out the neuroplastic argument for why doomscrolling (back then just blog reading) rewires you for short form material. Good news is it’s just practice and it’s reversible.
>>24843627This. Reading an hour before bed and an hour after waking up instead of mindlessly scrolling on the phone puts you at 60 books a year minimum.
>>24843627>>24843635I think "retention" and "enjoyment" are used to cover for their own failure with reading. They don't put in any effort and spend at most 1 hour a week reading.Usually I spend at least 2 hours a day reading and have no real problem with retention, I mix both fiction and non-fiction.
>>24843643Re: retention, they don’t even understand how it’s done. Reading slow does nothing for retention. You should read and re-read it later. You should do quizzes on the material. Discuss it (on a forum like this perhaps, what a thought!). Read criticism and analysis (I fucking never see people posting excerpts from any criticism that isn’t Bloom). You need to engage and re-engage the material which means it’s better to read the book fast so you can read criticism and then return to the book. Apparently we can do this faster than they can finish it in the first place.
>>24842540I managed to read both The Count of Monte Cristo and Don Quixote for the first time this year. Overall I'm quite happy, although I haven't reading much for some time now.
45/50Fine, but I usually read much more. How are these numbers so low?
>>24842540College coursework is getting in the way but I might read in a couple of hours I guess.
>>24842540I ended up completing mine pretty early this year.
>>24842578Plays and Plato
Books aren't a "more is better" thing you fucking retards. If you don't take at least a week to reflect upon and digest a book, it wasn't worth reading. Not to mention the adverse side effects of uncritically shoveling random information into your psyche.
>>24844012This is a load of made up bullshit as a cope for not reading a lot. You can read a lot and still engage deeply with the books that are worth extra effort. There's no set time limit you must spend reading a book to "digest" it, and "digesting" books will usually take form outside of reading it - writing about it, thinking about it, using secondary sources, and so on. You can do all that while reading other books. Retard.
i stopped giving a fuck about tracking books after my friend who got into reading had legitimate criticism over the ratio of books i start:finish being like 10:1 or even greater. dudes missing the point man.i havent been reading that much this year thoughever, i finished the sound and the fury in january, and the sailor who fell from the sea in september.otherwise mostly been writing, currently my novel. around 17k words now i think.
>>24844012Yes, they are. The clock is ticking and if you don't make haste of it, you'll leave for the great beyond with many great books behind you that you never made the time to read.
>>24842540I don't think I'm gonna make it this year
>>24844216Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Abraham Lincoln
It's not looking good. I could slightly inflate this a bit with some visual novels and the few xianxia webnovel books that are listed as one overall book instead of multiple but that would only put me in the 40s.Alas! This will be the second year out of the past 7 that I have read below 80.
>>24842611The bigger problem for me is actually reading a fucking book. I have read some but it's the hardest to start a new one. Once I get like 100 pages in it usually grips me but it's very hard to get to that point.
>tfw spent 1 month reading moby dick and 2 months getting through middlemarch
whats your avereage book rating?
>>24842540Horrible. I had a multiple month stance where I couldn't read anything more dense than an SCP entry so I have only read about four books this year. I wouldn't even be doing great if I fudged the numbers with comics and VNs.>>24842648It can help motivation to set a goal.
>>24844525I meant stretch not stance.
I'm around 25 books. Had a couple depressive periods where I did almost nothing and so while I read slowly around 35 pages an hour, it's much less than I'd have liked. Still, this was a year of many standard classics, and the next year will be all the better. It's been an awful year, but I feel like I've gained greater understanding of the world, somehow. I hope it continues.
>>24844482Probably around 3.75
>>24844367You need to stack books, homey. I read MD and MM this year too (and Gravity's Rainbow too), but i read nonfiction and genre alongside them and I'm around 60 books read.
>>24844733Dude for real. Every long work I've read that's /seriously/ slow reading, I end up just reading another novel every 100 or so pages to break it up. Unless it's like particularly absorbing or whatever.
I usually dont care about numbers, but lately i cant finish any book i want to read. Feels like shit.
>>24842648In order to feel the catharsis that comes from achieving a goal
>>24843620What if book long
>>24844012I love the cope mixed up with a “dude demons will enter your mind if you read too fast” twist. The grapes aren’t just sour they’re poison actually and anyone who eats them will die.
>>24845197Read long book then read short book same as reading two medium book. I am genius.
>>24843878go on. extend it by another two. :)
>>24844012>If you don't take at least a week to reflect upon and digest a book, it wasn't worth reading.if you don't know how to do this at the same as reading another book, then I'm afraid you're the retard
speedreader thread
>>24843675It turns out some books are longer than others.
>>24846742Cope. The people reading 10 books in a year aren't just reading tomes.
>bunch of neets sitting in their damp neetcaves reading pdfs on their shitty gaming pcsrumao
I think I still can make it happen
