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Originally Posted by kcladyz
How are you able to read so many books? That number is mind boggling to me
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Reading at slightly over 1000WPM and reading when I can during work breaks, at home, basically anytime I'm not busy. Even while making dinner, there is often 30-45 minutes while everything is cooking and reading helps pass the time.
I don't watch much TV other than sports and cooking shows. While watching hockey, you can read a surprising amount during commercial and period breaks. Football has only one major break but it's even worse for commercial breaks. Rugby cuts into reading time since they don't seem to have learned the value of taking 2.5 hours to play a 80 hour game and that a 10 minute half time is way too short. Add in the video replays/coach's challenges -- does it really take 10 minutes to decide if a player was offside as in one recent hockey game.
And then we have the weekends when I get in 3-4 hours on Saturday and Sunday mornings while the rest of the family is sleeping.
I do get a laugh out of the times shown on my ereader. Hmmm... 27 minutes to read 38% of the book so it will take you 3 hours and 26 minutes to read the rest of the book while my head says 45 minutes. 50 minutes tops.
Edit: The other thing to remember is that much of what I read is fiction which, for me at least, is faster to read than my non-fiction/technical books. OTOH, I often read the technical stuff at work so that adds quite a few hours of reading time per year.