Daily and Yearly Reading Goals ... what's yours?
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That looks like fun.
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I'm hyperlexic, autistic, and reading is my stim. So I read way more than the average person. Like, in 23, my Kindle says I read 872 titles. That doesn't count books I read on my computer, or paper books I read. So I'm probably somewhere close to a thousand, allowing for that.
Yeah, I know, I'm a freak, lol. It helps that the average mystery or romance novel takes me about 30 minutes to read. Chewier stuff like hard science is more like two hours. Most short scientific papers take me about 20 minutes if I'm familiar with the field and if I'm not taking notes or getting sidetracked looking up people and locales on Wikipedia. (grin) Perils of reading on a tablet. I'd estimate I read five or six most days. Like tonight, after dinner I read two Age of Sail books again while Husband watched football, then found that an author I like has another series, so I read the first book of that, and then I'm going to have a bath and read the second book and probably the third book, cause hot baths are really nice right now (it's, like, -5 outside and the heat is only managing to keep the house at 62.)
Some of that is rereading because some books or series are comfort food for me and you know, sometimes you just want something comfortable and fun where you know how it ends. Right now that's a couple of Age of Sail sagas. And I'm rereading the papers presented at a symposium in '21 on hadrosaurs, cause I find taxonomic arguments relaxing right before bed.
It's always interesting to see how many I read a year, which is why the kindle app is fun. It keeps count for me.2 -
Super cool! I thought I read a lot but rather than a speed reader I am a tortoise 🐢 using audiobooks.
I keep my audiobook lengths in a spreadsheet so I can calculate how much I have been reading over time. During my Anne of Green Gables binge I was reading 6 hours 20 minutes a day. That is a lot more than average. Last night I was watching the football game too instead of reading because it was my Detroit Lions playing and winning their first playoff game since I was a senior in high school! Go Lions!
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My claim that most Americans read 0 books per year is pretty accurate.
According to the Washington Post:
The data on most books read comes from our friend David Montgomery, “the spork pollster” who released the results of a new Economist/YouGov poll about America’s reading habits not long after we published last month’s column about America’s biggest readers. Though the Department of Data was supposed to be closed this week in honor of our annual holiday sabbatical, we couldn’t resist popping into the office to do a quick update.
So what did Montgomery find? Of 1,500 Americans surveyed, a less-than-ideal 46 percent finished zero books last year and 5 percent read just one. So, if you read more than two books in 2023, congratulations! You’re in the top half of U.S. adults.
Here is the breakdown of percentiles:
Congratulate yourself and keep on reading!
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Cool - I'm in the top 10 percent- I read 31 books in 2023.2
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Wow, this is AMAZING! What DO people do with all their time? They can't all be watching TikTok, can they?2
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Another Kindle Challenge complete!
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HOORAY for you @Catfish_Fan !!!2
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Happy Summer! Spring Challenge Complete!
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Great job!
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I missed the Summer Kindle Challenge completion by 1 badge because on Prime Day I forgot to go online with my kindle even though I read that day and it counted it toward my streak, it didn't give me the badge for reading on that day. I think I found a bug in the game.
On October 28 I will have 2 complete years as a streak reading on my kindle. That is a might big streak! I'm about to let it go because I also got a Kobo reader for some deals on Humble Bundle that were Kobo store only books. Reading on my Kobo e-reader won't count on my kindle streak, unfortunately. I hope to hit 2 years before I give it up though... I am almost there.
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@Catfish_Fan WOW! Well done!2
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Well I hit it, 2 years straight on the Kindle reading every single day, even through living with my dad helping him with horrible Covid in '23 and horrible triple bypass surgery in '24. It was HARD to accomplish this feat.
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Well done - especially with all that has happened in 2 years.2
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AMAZING, Catfish! Very well done.
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