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My Father would go to the local bookstore every Friday between work and home and buy a selection of paperbacks published that/issued that week. Mostly these were pulp type books like the Mike Hammer, Spenser for Hire, Matt Helm, etc. He would easily finish three or four in the weekend and a few more as the week went on. His favorite activity was relaxing on the couch reading a book and watching a baseball game.
I did pick up a few of his habits, when I watch TV with my wife it is almost always with a book in hand. I will still read about four or five fiction books a week although as others have noted the books tend to be longer today than they were a while back. Also, non-fiction books take a lot longer to digest than fiction does. One recent rainy Saturday I skipped all other work and just read three books with only bathroom and food breaks. (All of them from MobileRead's free download section.)
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