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I would think it would depend on the books and their genre. I just finished The Dark Forest, which is 512 pages, in a few days: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by throw0101a 5y ago
I would think it would depend on the books and their genre. I just finished The Dark Forest, which is 512 pages, in a few days:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
Meanwhile The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession, at 560 pages, took me two weeks:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3624887-the-medieval-origins-of-the-legal-profession https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3624887-the-medieval-ori...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Brundage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Brundage
It depends on what you want out of the book(s).
It's nice to have a goal, especially if you want to build a habit, which allows you get a reward-stimulus for hitting a magic number, but don't let that arbitrary digit dictate things too much.
- jasonladuke0311 5y agoEven in fiction there are vast differences. I tore through Murakami's 1Q84 in about 2/3 the time as Gibson's The Peripheral, despite the former being 1157 pages compared to 471 for The Peripheral.