How many pages per day is a "good" reading pace? How fast does /lit/ get through books?
>>25188290Depends on how big the pages are
its contingent on how dense the text is and the text size and how much you want to bother with the thing. for me personally it depends a lot on how smooth the writing reads in my mind's voice. i got through Stella Maris in a day because it was Cormac just putting on a dialogue clinic, but The Recognitions took me like 3 months even though i could say the same about its dialogue and prose. try to measure your progress by qualitative metrics and not quantitative ones, itll make your life easier
>>25188290Depends on how complicated the words are
>>25188290I read like 60-90 pages today. I did it over 3 sessions though. I don't have the attention span to read 100 pages without taking a break
>>25188312Had my whole day free today and only did 40 pages. It's non-fiction but this still can't be good...
>>25188290Like 30 more or less. Some days I do over a hundred. I don't I've ever hit 200 unless you count Goosebumps when I was a kid
>>25188298Let's say 6x8"
>>25188290I usually do 60 but I'll go under if the pages are long and the work is complicated (Heart of Darkness). I could go over if it is mostly simple like Catcher in the Rye
>>25188290For a dense book, it's like 120-140 pages a day for me, but it's not a race. Just read at whatever pace you're comfortable.
>>25188290I don’t know what’s good, but I shoot for 30-60 pages a day, more on weekends if time allows. I read roughly a book a week.
>>25188351nah man nonfiction is hard on the eyes especially if you havent thought about/worked with the subject matter enough. push yourself a little but dont go crazy. dont lose the fun in it
>>25188290A good reading pace is what you are comfortable with
About 30 today for me but I might get back to it… I’m not telling you what I’m reading.
>>25188290I read philosophy rather slowly, a typical session is 10-15 pages with typically sized pages. If I get fully absorbed in something I'll read a good 50, or if something lacks good content I can also read 50 before I'm filled with concepts and ideas to process.As always consistency is more important, focus on having good days, if you read even a tiny bit but you find yourself reflecting about that tiny bit at night, during walks or with any random events, then It's a good day and it was good reading because it helped you heighten every other moment on top of having been a nice reading moment in itself.
>>2518829030 minutes of reading per day, before bed, is good enough for me.This way I manage to replace brainrot scrolling and slow down to sleep.
>>25188290it depends what you are reading, reading a science fiction book isn´t the same as reading a essay
>>25188682What philosophy books are you referring to? The ones that you read 10-15 pages of?
I'm inconsistent. I either read 200-400 pages a day, or nothing. There is no inbetween. The most I have ever read in one sitting alone, without any interruptions, was the entirety of "Darkness at Noon". I remember finishing the Aeneid within a day. For philosophical texts, I can't seem to read more than 150 pages over the course of a day, although I did finish BGE in a day when I first read it. I became able to read such huge amounts during law school.
Depends on what I'm reading. Books of poetry I can do in a day if they're dense, a couple a day if they're more colloquial, but really depends on the poet -- I can't do more than a few pages of Dickinson if I have the whole day, or a few pages of Stevens. Prose, generally 50pgs/day is a good clip. If something's really pulling me along or I'm really trying to get to the end of something I'll do 100 pages a day but like >>25188346 said I have to split it up
I read 400 pages of LOTR in a single day, doing nothing but reading and sleeping. I would take occasional naps. I was 21 and it was during the summer holidays (college break).
>>25188290Casual books and fiction I can read a few hundred pages a day. For something like Being and Time sometimes I don't get past half a page a day. Don't worry about it, and certainly don't worry about comparing with others. Just have fun and learn.
>>25188290I measure only time, since pages are too affected by difficulty. It took me two weeks to work through Mrs. Dalloway, but only a few days for Hyperion. I get 20-30 minutes each way on my commute and then try to read an extra 30 minutes on the weekend as well. I can finish most average non-slop 200-300 page novels every 2 weeks.Before I got my Ritalin prescription, I spent about 5 years really trying to make books work but despite putting in the time, I found it too hard to make noticeable consistent progress. I'd read an epic in a week then not read for months. I didn't know reading was actually fun until I got on drugs.
>>25188290try for a minimum of 40 pages a day. the secret to reading lots is to only read books you want to read. don't plod through some heavy tome because you feel obligated to.
You should read enough pages that it adds up over time but not so it becomes cumbersome. I set a goal of exactly 50 pages a day.
>>25188290Really depends on how good the book is.
