To wonder how people read a book a day

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Or 100’s of books a year?

I tend to read longer books, around 700 plus pages. No idea how people can read so fast.

I was just about to comment that I only tried one audiobook and got frustrated at the slowness! I didn’t realise I could have sped it up.

Listening to an audiobook is not reading. It’s listening. It irritates me when people claim they’ve ‘read’ 100s of books when actually they’ve listened to them. There’s nothing wrong with listening to audiobooks at all but it’s not reading.

I’ve had since last Friday 22nd off work and since then I’ve read 15 books (10 paperback and 5 on kindle). I took the time off (birthday week) to read though. I am childless and single and just me in the household which makes it significantly easier 🤣 I’ve been reading since a very early age and I get books for every occasion 📕

Being a quick reader doesn’t really give you any additional benefits in life though 🫤

I used to read a different book every week. I loved reading and still do. Sadly, I don't get much time to read anymore. If I had enough time I could probably read a book a day.

@PostItInABook how do you think what you get from a book is different if you listen to a book rather than read it? Because I can’t think of any practical difference or any reason for considering that it’s inferior if that’s what people enjoy.
Although as a fast reader, I’m forced by an audiobook to slow down and listen to every word, whereas I often skim read a book when the plot gets exciting! I will go back and reread books though if I enjoyed them so may get the details I missed on my second, or third reading.

I've read 90 books this year so far. I don't watch TV and no social media so there's plenty of time. It would be more if I didn't have a child

Struggle to read a book a month. Have good degree in English too

That’s an interesting question. I instinctively feel that the process of reading is a different way to experience words; later, to see the text in your mind’s eye; and to be able to go at a pace, or by re-reading, that suits retention.

I think I recall films and TV programmes better than radio productions. Which I’ve always put down to the additional visual component.

But I have no evidence for any of this supposition, and I’m happy to be told that a well delivered audio book can do the same as a written book, in a different way.

I do. I’m a super fast reader. On average, when I’m at work, I read between 3 and 5 books a week (I don’t read them at work obviously, in my time off) On holidays, with no work? I read 10 -15 books on a 2 week holiday.

I’m a very fast reader and regularly read over a book a day during school holidays.

Unfortunately I no longer have the same amount of free time these days, so my ‘to read’ pile on my Kindle is rapidly growing.

@LifeofBrienne I literally said there’s nothing wrong with listening to a book so not sure where you have got the ‘inferior’ thing from.

I’ll say it again…..there’s nothing wrong with it at all if that’s what people like, but it’s not reading. It’s listening.

i used to before i had my youngest. now i've got now chance of reading anything that is longer than a post on here

I'm a fast reader.

No tv in my household growing up,

"Easy" books - chick lit and similar where I could tell you the plot just from the cover I read very quickly for obvious reasons.

I'm currently not working for various reasons and if I feel like a reading day I can read three or four books.

Obviously the more complex it is the slower I go. I have a maths degree and maths books I'm much slower on.

I'm trying to improve my reading in French and I am so frustrated at how slow it is!

Keep being distracted by the phone keeps me from reading more.

The book has too really grab my interest from day one too or I lose interest.

I don't include audio books in my total for the simple reason that I haven't (IMO) actually read them. I've listened to them, which isn't the same.

That's not to say others shouldn't include them in their total if they so wish.

My brain seems to process them differently too. My mind often wanders when listening to audiobooks so I could listen to a chapter multiple times before I know what's happening.

I am a fast reader too but I also like to binge read if the book is very good.

I may from time to time read a whole book, stay up far too late and suffer the next day but this happens less frequently as it does take it’s toll

I used to be a very avid and fast reader - probably 4-5 books a week. I did a literature degree and aswell as course books read for pleasure, I’d usually have 3/4 books on the go at once.

Unfortunately since kids and especially since my second I just can’t read like I used to. I think in the last two years I have read perhaps 5 or 6 books? Which makes me really sad. Even though I do technically have time to spare a couple of hours a day where I do nothing and could technically read I can’t switch my brain off enough to concentrate. My brain is going at 100 miles an hour all the time. As soon as the kids are in bed DP picks up his kindle but I really struggle. I hope I get my groove back with it soon.

I used to have the time to sit and read a book in 2 hours

They don't work FT, clearly. Or, like my friends, they count audiobooks. (I don't 😀)

I'm very happily back in to reading after a 10 year hiatus and have read 6 books in March. Yesterday I read Ian McEwans Nutshell start to finish. I only sat down to drink my coffee but was still there when it got dark!

Define 'Book'.

Fast reader, dusty house

I can read an average book in 3-4 hours so if I just read all day I could easily read two in a day. On holiday I read one a day, the rest of the time I read one every couple of days. So that would make about 180 a year of my maths is correct.

Some people read the words in their head at the pace they would read aloud and others scan read so a page takes seconds. Finding the time to read is a different matter!