How do people read 2000+ books? At my current reading rate, I won't reach 1000 books until I approach my 40s and yet I see people in their 20s with 2000 books read on their goodreads profile. How?
they dont use the computer that much
they read slop
>>25199125When I was a teenager, I could read hundreds of books in five months simply because they were easy, low-quality stuff, even if they were 400 pages long. If you see people in their twenties with more than 2,000 books under their belt, it must be mostly trash, some even count manga on goodreads.
>>25199125They waste their time and entire lives skimming through slop.
one good book is worth a million sloppas
Out of the 2000 how many of those books do they actually remember? Don't get bogged down with trying to read 2000 books by a certain age.
>>25199125A lot of it is people who commute and listen to audiobooks.
>>25199406>some even count manga on goodreads.Say it isn’t so…I wouldn’t put that beneath them though.
>>25199125It's just the Letterboxd effect. They think inflating their numbers equates to them being a better reader, even if they don't truly process what they read.
>>25199125They probably read mostly fairly short novels like A Clockwork Orange and Animal Farm or something. I enjoy being a purposefully slow reader and I usually go for really long novels so I can fully savor the experience.
\\________//// | |\\ (''o) | (`o`) // | |\\ \ ) // | | \\ (------)//___/ | |\\ //\______ == | // |======// | |. | I've read around 1000 in my whole life,started little. Actually re-reading confederation of dunces for the 5th time.
>>25199125Give yourself more space to read. Be honest about how much time you spend watching slop and scrolling bullshit. Including 4chimps. It’s pretty easy for most people to get several hours of reading a day just by eliminating that bullshit. Got a commute? Add audiobooks. Bring a book to work and read some on break. >>25199543> Out of the 2000 how many of those books do they actually remember?How many could you account for in anything but the shallowest terms? How would you know which 100 books to “memorize” instead of reading 1000? Just following some preordained moldy list of the “best books” like an NPC? The sum of which your contribution consists in saying “yeah they were really good, they’re the best books you know”?There’s a whole ecosystem targeting you people in particular, the optimization bro, top 100 whatever, books you HAVE TO read before you die!
>>25199125A lot of people will choose to include short stories or poems or other various small pieces of works on their goodreads profile. I'm sure some do it to up their book count and look cooler while others do it for legitimate reasons like having a more accurate archive of the books you've read.For example, I put as read every one of Plato's dialogues I have gotten through even though I have the complete works of Plato in a single book. Same with some of Kafka's, Conrad's, and Tolstoy's short stories. Their short stories are attached to another greater work or are simply a part of a collection. I'm not doing it to really up my book count on the site (I don't even have any friends or followers on it).
>>25199125I once quit all technology for 2 weeks and managed to read through 5 big books in that time alone.
>>25199125Well for starters they don't waste time on a Japanese animation image board
>>25199125Those people don't contemplate what they are reading. They treat books as something to get through instead of understanding.
>>25201016Sadly I slipped back into browsing Mongolian basket weaving forums and and jerking off to hentai porn. Learn from my mistake, lads
>>25199654I doubt they read highly allegoric novels or short stories, they read explicit garbage about nothing at all..
>>25199125It's pretty easy bruv
>>25199125nobody reads that many books
>>25199125if you see people with that many books consumed at that age, it should signal to you that they’re just LARPers rather than make you worry about your own pace of reading.
