Thread: What exactly do you call "reading a book" ?
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:19 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by Quexos View Post
OK I decided to create this thread because I hear of people that read millions of books every week, while still sleeping at night, working at day, having a social life, going out, seeing movies from time to time, reading the paper, playing video games, traveling and so on ...
I just don't understand how that is possible.
On a moderately busy day in which I've budgeted reading time, I can comfortably read 100,000 words of fiction if it's well-formatted for my ereader.

On a day when all my reading time is on the train to & from work, I can get through about 30,000 words.

While I do sometimes give up and put a book away, I don't skip around or skim the pages; I read it all. If it's boring, I pick another book to read. (The joys of memory cards; yay.) If tomorrow it seems like it'll still be boring , I read something else tomorrow. And so on. If I've consciously skipped a book a dozen times or so, I eventually remove it from my ereader so it stops getting in the way.
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