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Old 01-08-2019, 07:05 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Nausicaa View Post
Do you rank the amount of books rather than the quality? I never read fiction and never read books that I believe are "noisy" AKA useless. I can tell you how many words per minute I wrote or how many hundreds of pages I have read, and on paper you may want to have higher amounts of both. Yet someone who wrote 500 words per minute was writing single or double letters, while the one writing at 40 words per minute was writing more complex 10 letter words, and the pages were those of facebook posts, not pages of an instructional manual.

Do you care for quality? It not easy to measure, but I am not ashamed that my numbers are low, the information I retained is high.
A. I have no idea. I don't keep track of the numbers that seem so important to you.
B. I recommended a book to a friend and he stuck his nose up and said, "I don't have time for fiction. I only read non-fiction; the Bible." His reading is his business.
C. I taught my children that there is often more truth in fiction than in non-fiction.
D. When I was working my reading was 95% work related and was non-fiction. When I quit working it flipped and 95% of my reading is fiction.
E. I enjoy reading books written by people from other cultures and set their culture. Some are foreign and some are cultures in the U.S. that are foreign to me.
F. So, I can't answer your question about whether or not my reading is worthy.
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