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How long were you in for to read that many books?
by glitchcrab 3y ago
How long were you in for to read that many books?
- bigstrat2003 3y agoI used to read 500 books in a single summer as a teenager. I don't know how much free time you have in prison, but I can totally see doing 800 books in just a year or two.
- glitchcrab 3y agoI would have classed myself as a bookworm when I was younger, but there's no way I could have read anywhere near that many books in that timespan. I would say that whilst I believe you, you're also an extreme outlier with that figure.
- defrost 3y agoFive and a half books a day, every day, all summer seems high. What counts as "a book" here (the seven volume À la recherche du temps perdu seems a bit of challenge to rip through in a day) ?
- qingcharles 3y agoHah, yeah, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39331379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39331379
- defrost 3y agoHeh - confined for the summer gives a bit of an incentive, sorry about that. All the same it's a high number, .. I'm guessing more than a few were light pulps and the best you could find given the library at hand? I read a lot of books, several thousand, from 12 to 17, and kept a log of them - later I worked in (and led) a team that digested a few thousand technical documents a day (with a heavy dose of computer assistence to find|pick out key parts), there's a lot of material you can fly through quickly and not miss much, there are rare books that can take a year or a lifetime to fully digest and finish with.
- qingcharles 3y ago10 years. I read a lot of magazines as well, though, otherwise the number would be a bit higher!