More time reading, less time on the internet in 2016

I'm in please! Was just saying to DH that we really must cut down on the Internet as a leisure time. I used to read loads, watch interesting documentaries, crochet... Instead it is soooo easy just to collapse in front of the iPad and waste hours away every night. He is the same. Once the kids are in bed we just sit with the to blaring not really concentrating and each pissing about on the Internet, I have the attention span of a goldfish :-(

My new year resolution is to read more (aiming for 2-3 books per month) and to watch a proper film each week. Wondering whether to put the wifi on a timer!

ME TOO!

I think I could do 24/25 but I will give it my all. I am looking for some good recommendations. Which I know will happen here.

Another saying yes do join the 50 books thread - been part of it for 2 years now and love the recommendations

I'm in! I've buggered my concentration levels with too much aimless surfing, so it'll be a bit of a struggle but I NEED to get my reading mojo back!

Can I join in too? I used to read 2/3 books a week but smartphone s and tablets steal my eyes these days!

I am very lo brow. Chic lit and the odd thriller but desperate for a new genre/author I can really get my teeth into.

Fwiw folks, I read a paltry 16 books in 2013 because of faffing around online too much but last year I read 60 and this year I'm going to finish on 78 and it's because of joining the first 50 Books in 2014 thread.

Dino I'm not starting it until Friday morning

Can I join ? I am so keen to get back into reading and I have shelves of books that need attention ...

Has the 50 book challenge 2016 thread been started yet so we can sign in? Ive just started a book that I know I won't finish before Friday - so will get an easy 'first' in!

I am in too! I definitely read more since joining challenges like this one.

Definitely in!

I managed 16 novels, 2 collections of short stories and three history books this year, which is better than the years when my children were small (think I just about managed to peruse the DM's celeb sidebar of shame once a week in those dark, dark days ), but piss poor compared to my old pre-DC reading rate.

I'm aiming for a novel a week, and one non-fiction book a month in 2016.

I shall be posting on the 50 Book Challenge to keep motivated!

This is definitely something I need to do. I am pregnant with dc3 and due to start maternity leave in February so hopefully will have more time to read in 2016.

Lovely, thank you quog and remus, see you there (not sure my posts will be quite as good as Shakespeare though!)

I'm in! I have started buying books in hardback instead of on the Kindle and I've now got quite a pile ready and waiting. Going to start with the Brief History of Seven Killings.

So, I have posted on t'other thread with a resume of my woeful total for 2015.
I shall now try to finish book number 28 before the year ends .

Do all come and join us over on the 50 books threads - we are not at all highbrow over there.

Velour - Definitely get a Kindle. I dithered for ages and thought I wouldn't like it. I was wrong.

Hairspray - yes to non-fiction on the 50 threads. I'm finding myself reading more and more of it, because so many novels make me so cross! :)

There's a lot of non-fiction readers on the 50 Book Challenge, hairspray, including myself. Incidentally, autocorrect just tried to change your nn from hairspray to Shakespeare :o. So you are destined to be part of the thread!

Yes this is my resolution too, I get so annoyed with myself flicking around on my phone, refreshing pages and not enriching my life in any way.

I am more of a non fiction reader though so is that OK in the 50 book challenge?

Perfect timing. One of my resolutions is to stop taking my iPad to bed so that I will read. I'm also not one for challenging highbrow books. Have a book on the go on my kindle usually and also have a pile of real books I want to read. Aiming to finish the one on my kindle - currently reading Winter Solstice after a recommendation on here about Christmas reads. Then I'm going to tackle the shelf of unread books I have.

Seekret - it doesn't matter if you don't get to 50 books on the 50 Book Challenge. Just come along and join in anyway - you might surprise yourself and get carried along by it and end up reading 50 books And we don't all read highbrow stuff - I don't. I sneaked a Sophie Kinsella in a couple of weeks ago and don't think anyone noticed :o It's all really just about reading, recommending, picking up new ideas for reading and sharing your enthusiasm and love for books.

I'm currently reading the Shardlake series by C J Sansom and really enjoying them. They were a recommendation on there.

The internet has stolen my reading time as well.
I am ashamed of how few books I read now compared with years ago. Even when DC were little and I was frazzled I read much more.
I have kept a reading diary for many years. First started when DS2 was about 7 and a reluctant reader, we both kept a reading record. It used to be around 50 books a year but is now fewer than 30.
The 50 book challenge is too much for me though. Plus I don't go for a lot of the more highbrow challenging books. I long ago decided than reading was for fun and never to be a chore.
Perhaps a thread for lesser mortals who couldn't aim for 50?

Excellent resolution to make - I waste so much time wandering around the internet.

I need to do this as well - a combination of having children and spending more time online has meant I barely read these days - I just don't have the concentration levels. I do read via the kindle app on my ipad, but just end up flicking between other things as well.

I'm trying not to read in English (sounds poncy but there is a good reason) and it's really frustrating that I can't skim read! But I know the only way I'll be able to read more quickly is just by forcing my way through it. Through the brambles and marsh...

Also am trying not to accumulate too much stuff. May be time to get a Kindle. oh god. I said I'd never do such a thing.

good luck everyone :)

Gosh me too!
I started the 50 book challenge last January and gutted to only get to 36. Didn't include study books in THETE but still I wasted a humongous amount of time flocking away on the Internet!!!

Read some corners last year though and listened to a good few too. Just finished the year of the runaways on audible, would highly recommend!