Originally Posted by latepaul
What happened to me was this:
When I was young I always read for pleasure, I read a lot and I read most days - mostly in bed before falling asleep. When I was older and working my bus ride to work was a guaranteed slot when I read and I always had a book on the go.
A few years ago I noticed that without consciously changing anything I'd slowed down. One reason was I was now driving to work, another was that I was now going to bed later and tending to fall asleep straight away. A little while later I realised that I was still reading as much if not more than I'd ever done it's just a lot of it was now online and not books but blogs and forums and so on.
Then the final Harry Potter book was coming out. I'd decided I wanted to re-read the whole series before that. I had only a few weeks and I'm not a quick reader so I made myself a spreadsheet to track how many pages I read per day so I could see if I was on target. I found I liked tracking the numbers - sometimes I used tweaking the spreadsheet as a procrastination from reading. I've been using various forms of that spreadsheet ever since.
So I've learnt a couple of things:
1) As I get older and there are more things to distract me, it's easier to "forget" to read even though I enjoy it when I do.
2) I like numbers.
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