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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You only read an average of 4 books a month?!?!?! I can never understand how it takes some people a whole week to read just a single book. 
Yep, a humongous number of people here (like me) can easily read 20-30 books a month. |
Maybe because I read fantasy mainly and a lot of it is epic fantasy. And those books are more times than not +700 pages. The longest book I've read this year for example was 1200 pages long (
Memories of Ice (The Malazan Book of the Fallen #3) by Steven Erikson).
That's like 4 average books right there if you read romance, crime or chick lit.
But of course there are people out there who are book devourers
. I'm not one of you guys.
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Originally Posted by webroot
for entertainment i turn on tv or social media, everyone has their own poison.
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Ugh, no offence but social media? That is pure poison. How can you get entertainment from that is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And there you go -- your priorities. Even in this fast-moving world  just cut the cord and read a book. Assuming you want to, which not everyone is required to. But you see that it isn't really a question of "free time". |
I agree. It's all about the time management. If I have 10-15 min off, I'll crack open my kindle, not my smartphone. If I'm waiting in line for something I'll do the same. If I'm using trains, trams or bus, I'll do the same. If I'm jogging, shopping, cleaning I'll put my audiobook on. All of those things are not free time, but I still read during them.
If I waited for free time, I probably wouldn't read at all.