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With all due respect to Art Garfunkel, whose work I greatly admire...I would suggest to tone it down a little bit :-) and maybe change the text on the page 1968 to 1978 from "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968." to maybe "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art bought, opened once, perused, read a few pages and some he read since 1968..." :-)) From 1968 to the end…
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I have three little kids, I get through about one page a week.
Audiobooks my friend. Listening at +1.5x (playback speed) helps
This happens both when I'm listening to audiobooks and doing something else, or when just sitting and doing nothing when listening. I don't have the same problem with reading, I can do that with high focus for hours without any problem.
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> as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. I get through about 15 books a month - 2000 would be like 10-12 years, not a lifetime.
I have three little kids, I get through about one page a week.
With all due respect to Art Garfunkel, whose work I greatly admire...I would suggest to tone it down a little bit :-) and maybe change the text on the page 1968 to 1978 from "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968." to maybe "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art bought, opened once, perused, read a few pages and some he read since 1968..." :-)) From 1968 to the end…
In all honesty, 12 pages per day doesn't really seem that much.
As I said, a career I greatly admire. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel
With all due respect to Art Garfunkel, whose work I greatly admire...I would suggest to tone it down a little bit :-) and maybe change the text on the page 1968 to 1978 from "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968." to maybe "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art bought, opened once, perused, read a few pages and some he read since 1968..." :-)) From 1968 to the end…
The problem was that the list had no other purpose except as a kind of trophy case. I felt proud about my list, as if finishing a book is an achievement, as if reading is a sport, as if reading a lot makes you better than those who read less. I was disgusted by my own vanity, and moreover, considered it as proof that I haven't really improved my character from all that reading.
Now I stopped maintaining a list and I stopped keeping a mental account of how many pages or books I read.
The result is that, though I rarely finish any book I pick up, I probably spend more time in total reading, and I learn way more because I don't hesitate spending a lot of time appreciating or grappling with, say, a single paragraph of text.
#itsnotarace
(BTW I don't want to imply that this is true for everybody. And I mean if your list has notes that's totally different)
With all due respect to Art Garfunkel, whose work I greatly admire...I would suggest to tone it down a little bit :-) and maybe change the text on the page 1968 to 1978 from "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art has read since 1968." to maybe "We are pleased to present a listing of every book Art bought, opened once, perused, read a few pages and some he read since 1968..." :-)) From 1968 to the end…
Now I feel bad about constantly complaining that I don't read enough. 12 pages a day is easy, even for heavier works.
That honestly impressive how much you could read with just 12 pages a day.
Edit: Okay, a small script that grabs the first three years of books, with a bug, or two, somewhere, tells me that you actually need to read about 120 pages per day, not 12. That makes more sense. It's ten times more, but still do able.
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> as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. I get through about 15 books a month - 2000 would be like 10-12 years, not a lifetime.
I have three little kids, I get through about one page a week.
Did he actually read War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Catch 22, Candide, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Malcolm X biography and two other books during the single month of Feb 1969?? I find that a tad hard to believe... But whatever. I'm a pretty fast reader myself, so I'll take that as a challenge / inspiration for myself :)
The Great Gatsby is short. Candide is shorter. The Picture of Dorian Gray is fairly short. Each of them might have been read in a day or less. War and Peace is famously long, but at a normal reading pace of 200 words per minute it will only take 40-45 hours -- say, 10 days.