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Do you read a lot of short works? Fast reader? or just constantly reading at every opportunity? That’s a huge amount of reading — I was able to hit 20 books las
by laweijfmvo 2y ago
Do you read a lot of short works? Fast reader? or just constantly reading at every opportunity? That’s a huge amount of reading — I was able to hit 20 books last year but that included a re-read of all 7 Harry Potters, so quite light reading.
Do you feel like you retain things from all 100 books?
- garciasn 2y ago400p books on average. To respond to another comment: I retain every book I’ve ever read to the point I cannot read the same book twice.
- no_wizard 2y agoThat’s impressive, and I’d say is mental recall far above average. I applaud you for taking every advantage of it possible
- wredcoll 2y agoPhones make it pretty easy these days, just read a chapter of your book instead of a hn comment page.
- sn9 2y agoIf you take the assumption that most books average out to ~350 pages in length, then you get a pretty good heuristic that if you read a minimum of N pages per day, then you're likely to complete at least N books per year. 10 pages per day gets you 10 books per year, 50 for 50, 100 for 100, etc. Pages read is a more useful metric in general. A process goal that leads to the outcome.
- laweijfmvo 2y ago100 pages/day is a lot! i’m not the type who can whip out a phone and read just 7 pages while standing in a line — i’d retain none of that or not be able to follow a plot that staggered.