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Originally Posted by orlok
Well I'm already 3 books behind my 75 book challenge... The first I read (1632 by Eric Flint) was about 600 pages, and over the last couple of weeks I have only managed half an hour or less a day to read, due to other commitments. Aaarrrggg!
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Read shorter books.
I purposely chose shorter books when I could this year for my challenge because I knew it would be crazy enough. I could probably never read seventy 600 page books in a year as my best year for pages is around 25,000 pages.
Pages are deceptive as well. I've had 200 page books take longer than 400 page books. It depends on font size, spacing, and actual difficulty of the text. I have a 440 page book I've probably spent ten hours reading to only get halfway through it so far. While I've got another 400 page book that only took ten hours to read the whole thing.
Every method of counting is flawed in some way, read to have fun and my usual goal is just to record what I read.