Is 52 books/year enough?

Is 52 books/year enough?

  1. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I read 0 books so far this year. I come to this board to pretend I read. I download books I like but then I never actually get to read them.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Do Garfield comics count?

  2. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Butterfly are you still here :3

  3. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That’s a good amount. My reading has plummeted these last few years. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of the confidence and vigor I’ve had for reading at precisely the time I aspired to write the most.

  4. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Manga doesn't count. Nor picture books either. Or abridged audiobooks that condenses 18 hours of a book into 2.

  5. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's my goal every year and I usually end up reading about a dozen more. Super comfy pace.
    I'm at 82 for 2023. No comic books or audiobooks, but I'm counting around 5 or so short stories.

  6. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The number of books is not important.
    You could read the entire collection of Star Wars novels and come away from that as nothing more than a Star Wars nerd, filled with useless lore about a fictional world.
    If however you instead spent that time studying the histories and philosophies of the world you would have given yourself a truly worthwhile education.
    And furthermore no book is the same. Voltaire's Candide is about the same length as Spinoza's Ethics but where one can be read in a single sitting, the other can take several months.
    And lastly, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon is one book and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle is also one book but these are both obviously complete opposites in terms of size.

    The metric of "books/year" is utterly pointless

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Anon how do you feel about this exquisite bait

      I've read 92 books this year. Obviously subjective, but I don't think it's a big deal. Life gets in the way sometimes. It's not a competition. As long as you are reading, go for it

      if it was serious?

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's not bait, Starwarschad has been here for years

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        It's not bait. I've read and reviewed everything pictured

        It's not bait, Starwarschad has been here for years

        Based, thank you

  7. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >it was supposed to be my moment

  8. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I've read 92 books this year. Obviously subjective, but I don't think it's a big deal. Life gets in the way sometimes. It's not a competition. As long as you are reading, go for it

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      neeeerd

  9. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How many of them would you say were good?

  10. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >a book a week
    Impossible to do this unless you are a neet or you read a bunch of short stories and count them as a whole book

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      If you don't drive, it is possible.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I've about 2 spare hours a day and 6-8hrs on Fridays and Saturdays to read; it's feasible but there shouldn't be much else going on in your life

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >read 1 hour a day at 1 page per minute
      >60 pages a day
      Obviously if you're reading someone like Faulkner it'll be more like 30 pages in an hour but 1 book a week is very doable.

  11. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's a cute anime girl OP

    How long are those books?
    52 thousand pagers are many books.

  12. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I'm banned lol

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Wait, I'm not? Yeah 52 books is plenty. My goal for this year is 36. Some years I've read over a hundred books but I've got considerably less spare time now.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >My goal for this year is 36.
        What made you choose that particular number?
        Also why did you get banned?

        • 4 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I was aiming for about fifty books initally, but about a month ago I realized I'd only read like 25. Thus I decided to settle for a goal of 36 books that I'll reach if I can keep my pace of finishing approximately one book a week. (I'm at 28 books now, so I'm on schedule!)

          Just three or four hours ago when I tried to post it said I'm banned and now I'm suddenly unbanned. I can't remember saying anything inflammatory so I guess it was mishap or something... I use vpn sometimes, might be related to that

  13. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What books does Miku read?

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Beastiality hentai

  14. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on factors such as page number, font size, spacing, pictures, reading difficulty, informational density...

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Let's say ebooks which don't have page numbers and font and spacing are adjustable.

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