I just felt compelled to share with everyone, although it might be silly or considered common knowledge. For years I scoured the internet for tips on how to read more, but I just couldn’t figure it out. I wanted a magic pill, and I couldn’t find one. When I started tracking the amount of time I was reading (using Bookly–there are several apps out there that work though) I saw just how little time I was actually spending… all told, not even an hour per day. Based on the stats given inside the app, I read about 40pp/hour. Doesn’t sound like much, but the average book for me is about 300pp. Once I decided to read for a set amount of time–one hour every day–instead of a certain amount of pages (as it varies from book to book), it was shocking. That calculates to nearly a book per week for me. Here I was trying to find all these tips and tricks when the answer was right in front of me the whole time: if you want to read more books, spend more time reading. So, my goal this year is to read one hour per day. Just one hour! Based on the 366 days this leap year, that should get me over 40 books easily! Just felt excited and needed to share.
by ectoplasm777
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Same. Joining book subreddits has helped too. I have a bunch of coworkers that love to read, and that motivates all of us a lot. We are all eager to give updates, share recs, read whatever the other people have read, and a liiiiiittle healthy competition in there to read the most books lol. I’ve almost read more this year already than my total books for last year! And I’m not forcing myself, just having fun with it!
Funny how to read more books u just need to read more!
I was a Health and Life coach for over 20 years and the most annoying thing I discovered is how effective tracking is. I hate tracking, but when we do we have to stop exaggerating how well we’re doing, and then we start doing what we said we’d do. This seems to work for all activities, calories, macros, exercise, sleep, doom scrolling, it doesn’t matter.
I think more reading is great — I wish I had time to read all day. I wonder sometimes, though, whether reading faster is good thing or not. Take me: I can go through books quickly or lazily. When I go slower, I tend to pick up more on detail, language, and other aspects of a novel that I might gloss over if it read more quickly. It’s probably just me, but thought I’d mention.