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When I was living in Paris I had a 20 min ride from home to work each day. I picked up the habit to read during those 40 total minutes and I was going through b
by ziofill 10mo ago
When I was living in Paris I had a 20 min ride from home to work each day. I picked up the habit to read during those 40 total minutes and I was going through books like I had never been able to, because while 40 min is not a lot, it’s about 150h per year. One easily underestimates the power of consistency.
- bitmasher9 10mo agoI read many books a year by reading for 20-30 minutes per night before sleeping. A habit with multiple benefits (winding down and reading or commuting and reading) is very powerful for getting the most value out of your time.
- bbkane 10mo agoUntil the book gets really good and you have to keep reading past your bedtime to learn what happens (or maybe that's just me)
- druskacik 10mo agoIt's not just you, I hear this often, but I am always suprised people can read for so long in bed. No matter how interesting a book is, I can rarely read more than 20-30 minutes before the urge to fall asleep becomes too strong. But I can sometimes code until like 4AM. Weird.
- sponnath 10mo agoReading is usually more passive than coding. I'm often never sleepy if I'm actively coding something late at night but reading a book (no matter how engaging) or watching a tv show can very easily make me sleepy. That said, everyone's brains work very differently.
- wredcoll 10mo agoThis is just so weird. In general coding won't let me fall asleep but a book 100% will never let me sleep until I finish. I also find the idea of "forcing" yourself to read rather peculiar, but we're all different people. I wonder if there's genuinely something different in how the brain reacts.
- hexfish 10mo agoWell you are sitting in front of a relatively bright lamp when coding.
- burningChrome 10mo agoAnything true crime keeps me up. Same with many genre's like you said, but for some reason true crime always hooks me. I read the Zodiac book by Robert Graysmith in less than two days over break in college. Could not put it down.
- bitmasher9 10mo agoThis happens to me about once a year. I’m much more likely to stay up later than planned while doing other activities such as watching tv, coding, talking, social media, or spending time with my partner.
- jorvi 10mo agoTo offer a counterargument: I would strongly recommend aspiring and avid readers to not make reading in bed your primary / only mode of reading. It will make your brain associate books with sleep and thus make you turn drowsy the moment you have turned a few pages.
- MaysonL 10mo agoI wore out the elbows of quite a few shirts lying on my side in bed reading. This was during the time I would go to the local science fiction bookstore every Saturday and buy three or four books, ocassionally finishing them by Monday.
- mnky9800n 10mo agoI stopped because I would feel sleepy and also feel like I didn’t get what I was reading and would forget the book. I suppose that’s something of a champagne problem.
- theshrike79 10mo agoI commute to the office 1-3 times a week, it's about 30 minutes on the train + some walking. I've gone through so many books it's crazy :) With audiobooks I can start listening the second I step out of the door and stop while I take my jacket off in the office. With e-books I usually just read on the train. Most books aren't that long, around 5 hours a week of reading just during your commutes is quite a bit.
- ipaddr 10mo agoFor one year I read every free moment averaged a book every 3 days mostly biographies many on wrestling. The year I got an e-reader (alura tech). Stopped after the screen broke. The book that stood out the most. Sugar Barons.
- systems 10mo agohow can you read in 20 minutes, for me 20 minutes is only good enough to stare out the windows and ... zip zip 20 minutes are gone i need a couple of hours to do any technical reading 20 minutes, maybe, maybe .. good enough if i am reading fiction or something
- scubbo 10mo ago> how can you read in 20 minutes > good enough if i am reading fiction or something Looks like you got there in the end.
- fastasucan 10mo agoJust do as you do when you are doing technical reading for a couple of hours, but stop after 20 minutes.
- prinny_ 10mo agoI also used to read my commute but stopped it after I finished "for whom the bell tolls". I was so moved that I ended up crying in the bus and I would have liked to experience that feeling in the privacy of my home rather in the morning bus with 9 hours still on the clock.
- throwaway2037 10mo agoI used to religiously read The New Yorker (magazine) on my commute. I remember crying while reading about the copper mine rescue in Chile.
- mnky9800n 10mo agoI read the road by Cormac McCarthy on the train. That was a mistake.
- famahar 10mo agoI do the same with language learning. Makes me actually enjoy commuting to work since I find it hard to study at home. I just pop in the headphones, take a seat, and sit for 40 mins twice a day. Sometimes I even intentionally take the non-rapid so I can study a bit more (plus the train is less packed so I'm always guaranteed a seat)