how long should you read for per day?
>>25172932However long you feel like reading
>>25172996i'm trying to read after destroying my attention span from growing up and spending my teen years on tiktoki need to set goals for myself to get used to it
Um uhh let me think here uhh you should read for five hours. You must read for five hours to achieve optimal SOCIAL STATUS within your sphere, to achieve optimal SELF-ESTEEM in relation to the UNWASHED MASSES. Yes yes five hours, that is the proper amount.
today I spent quite some timeadjusting eyelash angled seedownward, sloped and slipping offfinally to greet the pagefor a minute's catch or two
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read less, remember more
>>25173021This except the oppositeNobody needs to be remembering things as they go about their day
the more serious you are about it the more time you'll find
>>25173034>>25173028>>25173021>>25173016>>25173011>>25173010i'm asking for a BEGINNER >>25173005
>>25173005Don't time yourself on reading, there is no reason to do that. "Oh I want to read for x amount of hours." That does not matter, what matters is actually retaining the information. AKA, you stop reading once you feel like you aren't missing key info.
>>25173038why did you not TELL US this ORIGINALLYyou fucking skunk
>>25173038Read challenging fiction for a half-hour, something like Dickens or Austen. If you find that you want to keep reading, great. If you don't, it's only a half-hour and you can do it again tomorrow. After a while, increase your daily amount. You won't improve your reading skills by paging through airport slop. You need to rewire your brain. This will take time, so be patient and try to have fun. Poetry is also recommended. I suggest Wordsworth or John Clare to begin with.
>>25173046i didn't want (you) to look down on me>>25173048thank you, although right now i'm reading non fiction
>>25172932Until failure
>>25172932>>25173038If you can read for 1 hour and a half, you passed the test. Feel free to reading however much you can focus (at least 30-45 minutes) after that
>>25172932I have been doing the pomodoro (35 mins reading, 5 mins short break) method for reading. I wake up at four and after praying and doing my toilet, I go and start reading. By around seven o’clock or a little more, I would have definitely read at least 2 hours and 20 mins, and I would feel no guilt for the rest of the day. So I would say, 2 hours of reading a day is good.P.S.: I am compartmentalize the reading blocks like this for the time being:1st 35 mins: Bible reading (daily)2nd 35 mins: The Odyssey3rd 35 mins: One short story, one poem, one essay4th 35 mins: Finishing what I can’t finish in the 3rd one, plus more if I still have time
>>25172932I usually try to aim for 20 pages at least (or a single chapter) which is roughly an hour or slightly less
>>25173005Start doing pomodoro
3-5 hours
I read one page per day. I first read it while I eat my grape fruit and wait for my oatmeal to cook. While eating my oatmeal i consider that page and then I read that page a second time. While I shower I consider the page in context to the previous page and as I dry myself and dress for the day I consider it in context to the context explored in the previous days shower. As I drink my coffee I copy the page out into a sheet of parchment paper which I then wrap my sandwich in. At this point I forget about my reading and focus on the days tasks until lunch. During lunch I intently study my sandwich's wrapper and the various edits made by a bit of mayo, a stray sprout or a crease in the paper, exploring the new contexts they suggest until I have lost all sense of the original page. Once again I forget about the page and return to the days activities until I return home for the night. Once home I prepare my dinner and season it by reading the page aloud over my meal. I retain very little of this reading of the page and find that the sandwich's editing still occupies my mind. As I eat my food well seasoned with the words of the page it returns to me a word at a time but never in the proper order. I carefully chew each word until I have found its proper place, the I's are most difficult and one can never really be sure if they got the right 'I' in the right place, especially troublesome with dialog. After dinner I go for a walk to help with digestion and prepare my mind for sleep. Before bed I read the page a final time. I sleep soundly.
>>25172932Ask not how long you must read, but how much you must read.
>>2517303820 minutes a day, every day. Protip: reading ("reading") on audio makes it easier/faster.
>>25173038read easy books if you are a beginner, 100 to 300 pages a day until you finish the book then get another easy book, or do one 15 min session and later a 30 min session like in elementary school
If you can't read a short novel in one sitting, I would make this a goal immediately so that you can develop lifelong mental stamina while young. Three-hour bursts will seem trivial afterward.
>>251729321 book for day
Samuel Johnson recommended ~5 hours for young men
>>25179725In the 1700s when young literate men had nothing to do for most of the day
>>2517293215 minutes max. Unless you want to saturate your brain with another man’s thoughts. In which case read as long as “you” like.
I'm homeless and I read about 6 hours per day.
>>25173005Just try to do 15 minutes minimum per day. Try reading before your other digital slop grabs your focus.
when I sit down to read, I can crank out an hour no problemmy difficulty is that I have a compulsive habbit of just going to check twitter or 4chan for 15 minutes, which easily turns into 3 hours of waste
>>25179815as opposed to now where they have to spend 5 hours a day doom scrolling
>>25179725i'm gonna do this,
>>2517293212 hours
my eyes get really tired after 30 mins max so I usually need to take a break and look at the internet. Then usually within 5 mins or so I get pissed off about everything I see being AI and go back to reading the book. Flawless strat desu
