How I read as much as I do
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- In which I talk about reading, and how I read a fair bit . . .
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Summary:
1. Read on the commute
2. Audiobook
3. Read no matter how much time you've got. Don't worry about finishing a chapter.
4. Always carry a book or multiple
5. Switch between books. You can read a contemporary work with a classic.
6. Make reading your main form of downtime
7. Improve your reading speed
8. Time yourself when reading and calculate the total time you would need to finish the book. It gamify your reading time
9. Use a bookmark down the line to guide your reading a bit more (recommended for astigmatism)
I love your accent. I actually have an easier time and more enjoyable time listening to a narrator from England on my audible. 😂😂
Thanks! I'm surprised as I find it often takes me longer to get into US/Canadian/Australian audiobooks, as I'm less used to the accent at first.
Yes! Male or female it seems I prefer the English accent every time. ✌🏻🤠
Oh, and I too never go anywhere without a book. One never knows when the opportunity to read for five or ten minutes will present itself.
Being relatively new to your channel, I’ve asked myself, more than once, how you read as much as you do. This video enlightens! You discuss what you read very well. With your intellect and enthusiasm, you make the books seem accessible and interesting.
What a great way to start my day, having your tips to continue to motivate me. Right away, I updated my refrigerator reading schedule, did the same in my book journal and am set to keep going. I don't read as fast as you do, but I do love to use a bookmark to scroll down the pages. Keeps me focused. Thanks for sharing, Katie.
Thanks! The bookmark technique really does help!
Thanks Katie- another interesting video. You are a quick reader. Within the last two years, I’ve began using Audible mainly for classic novels and I love it. I listen to books while I’m gardening and knitting- both my favorite hobbies. I still love holding a book and something about the paper book smell is also enjoyable. 😊 I also love the portability of my Kindle so my library is growing there too. I really love all types of books!!💕
Thanks! I really enjoy audible for books, and it's great fun for rereading and reading classics too :) - though like you, I love reading a physical book as well!
Yes...this video is very interesting and useful and completely nerdy (yay!). 🤓 Thank you for sharing.
Thanks :D
I do the timing thing too and then put post it notes at the daily break marks, so I can visually see how many days left to finish a book. Love your channel!
Kudos to you for all your reading! Im an English major and I dont believe Ive read as much.But I also usually have three or four books on the go as well as listening to books.
Thanks! It's really hard when you're studying; I definitely didn't read this much when I was at uni.
I read so much like you.. I too am a fast reader which people don’t understand.. Having several books on the go really helps me and I much prefer doing that too. Really love your channel 😊
Thanks :) Definitely having multiple books on the go at once helps!
I love that you've started timing your reading. I shall absolutely be trying it tonight ha.
It looks like quite a few of us do it. I'll be interested to see how you get on!
There is no way I could listen to an audiobook while doing something else. All kinds of mishaps would ensue. And even listening in optimal conditions, I slow them down to 0.9x. Very envious of people who can audiobook multitask + accelerate.
I would struggle to listen while doing anything that engages my brain - but when I'm walking or at the gym or doing housework or playing a very mindless video game, I can sort of switch off everything but the audiobook. I used to read in the same room with my parents watching TV a lot as a teenager, so I got quite used to like switching different bits of my brain off, as it were.
@@katiejlumsden Thanks, Katie! I'm quite clumsy, so sadly walking or gyming on autopilot is out of the question. I'm never more than an intriguing choice of adverb away from a Frank Spencer experience.
@@nickknight5373 that's how i was at the beginning but now im quite used to it,i listen to audiobooks when cooking, cleaning, playing with my hamster, getting ready in the morning .. and never listen to it in normal speed, it's always 1.5 or 1.25
@@soumiayousfi9968 I hope you don't inadvertently apply a corresponding acceleration to your hamster's wheel.
@@nickknight5373 lol no dont worry
I love audiobooks too. I used to think I could listen to a book, but I totally was wrong. I love reading but found that eith a really good narrator , an audiobook is so very enjoyable. 😍
Audiobooks really are so great,
Yay thank you for making this video! I think I need to up my audio book consumption. I live in a small town so when I'm out I'm usually walking (to work, university etc).
Audiobooks while walking are so enjoyable :)
Very interesting! I’m not surprised you are a fast reader, or a dedicated one.
btw, I’m reading Bleak House now, and following your videos. They add so much to my reading experience. I hope you have time for another Dickens Readalong in the nearish future.
Thanks Jan! I'm glad you're enjoying Bleak House. To be honest, once the Bleak House readalong is finished, I don't think I'm going to do another serialised readalong - certainly not in the next year or two. I enjoy making the videos, but I'm always really late and far behind, and I don't think it's the most enjoyable way to reread a Dickens novel for me. I kind of just want to go back to both Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House, and read them all the way through in one! I'd also quite like to focus on some shorter-term readalongs of some other novels. Anyway, we shall see . . .
Someone recommended me your channel, and I am happy to be here. To he honest, I am very careful what I watch as I normally do not like to know summaries of the Classics, and definitely not detailed summaries or reviews (even those without spoilers) of any book until after I read the book, so I just check the titles, covers people recommend and fast forward avoiding to listen most details. On the other hand, as weird as that sound, even though I do not like to hear or read detailed summaries or almost any review beyond good book, bad book type of thing, the first thing I do on any new book I check to see if I want to read it or not is not the summary in the back of the book, but the ending in the last pages. I do not consider that spoiling. Reading the ending first, it really makes me want to read a book even more to find out what that ending happened or how that character that I don't even know who he or she is yet died, etc.
I am ever cursed as a slow reader, averaging on 3-5 book per month.
That is still much more than many people.
There's a vantage to that too, you can truly savour what you read :)
I am even slower, I read around 20-30 pages a day of whatever I read, so one Dickens usually takes me a month! But I love it that way.
I am a slower reader as well, always have been. At a resent family gathering it was said of me that I retain more of what I read then other faster readers in my family. Which was nice to hear after years of torment in our younger years for my slow speed. I too listen to audiobooks while cleaning, cooking and taking walks. As long as your enjoying what you read hopefully it’s not a speed contest once your out of school. I regularly read more then 120 books per year comfortably. Happy Reading Marios!
Wow. That's so impressive - but it also makes sense how you manage to read so much now.
When I was younger I used to read several books at once but I've found out over the last few years I really dislike reading more than one book at a time now. I like to get my teeth into a book and concentrate on it and solely it. I discovered whilst doing JAJuly with you this year that it's definitely better for me to not start many books at the same time... I'll be more prepared next JAJuly I think :) also I might join you for Victober but I'm thinking the only challenge I'll do is read Shirley in the readalong with you (it's something I've been wanting to read for ages).
Thanks for your videos I always lovely watching them
Thanks! I very much enjoy reading multiple books at once, though I feel like 3/4 is my maximum - I know some people who read 10 at a time!
I use a bookmark to follow where I am on the page quite a lot too. Especially if it is small print or a book that requires a lot of concentration. Interesting discussion. Thanks for sharing with us!
Thanks :) It definitely helps me focus on the words.
Listening to audiobooks with your significant other sounds like such a nice, relaxing thing!
It really is!
My introduction to reading was a Readers digest books many years ago at Doctors office and since then i've been hooked to reading.
This is fascinating!
Just listening to the pace you speak at wears me out lol
I'm a very s---l----o----w reader, probably compared to most people, but definitely compared to you!
You read more books in a month than I read in a YEAR 😲 I'm not kidding 😳
These are such great tips! Thank you for sharing :)
Thanks Emma!
I do the whole timing thing.
It started years ago when I would get to below 100 pages of a novel left and I would think, 'ah I could finish this today in about an hour and a half if I focus'. This then progressed to me constantly working out roughly how many pages I had left of a book.
Things have got a lot worse (better) recently as I now use bookly. It's my favourite app ever! You track your reading on there, set goals, etc. One thing you do is set the timer each time you read and then it tells you your reading speed and how many hours, minutes and seconds left of the book. Since having this app I have certainly read a lot more. It also provides lovely little line graphs for minutes read in a day, pages read in a day - competitive me is always on the lookout to beat myself so end up reading more that way too.
And to read quicker, I used to do the bookmark thing you do too, however to be even quicker you can use your finger and run it along the line you are reading so its underneath the words you read. The speed of your finger focuses you even more and makes you read faster.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does the timing thing - it looks like there are a lot of us in the comments here who do it! I'll have to look up Bookly - it sounds fun.
Oh, I am so glad I am not the only weird one! 😂 I do that exact same thing that you do with writing down the times and timing myself and calculate how long it will take me to finish the book. I am so glad to hear that someone else does the same. 😊 I also always carry with me at a very minimum one physical book (most often 2 or 3 physical books), plus my Kindle).
I do it all the time! Sometime it always helps me.
Very timely! I had wondered how fast you read. Thank you for sharing the information. =)
Thanks :)
I too time myself! I find it helps me stay focused because i want to see how much my reading speed has improved from when i first started reading books consistently. It helps a lot
I looks like there are a lot of us who do it - I'm glad it's not just me!
I live in Chicago, but work in NYC, so I read on flight and commute from hotel to work, and agree on Audible too. Listening to Audible doing pretty much everything else: walking dogs, cooking, driving in car etc. I can’t work (on laptop) on planes/trains etc - so Audible works great.
Great video 👍🏻 commuting certainly is a godsend for reading 😊📚
It really is!
These videos are so good you really helped me look at my "free time" 5 minutes here and there to read instead of looking at paint dry lol
Thanks!
Thanks for the video--what an adorable teapot! I love that it's polka-dotted. Good points about your commute--that does add a lot of reading time in. :)
Thanks :) It really does give me so much more time!
You read so much faster then me! It's impressive. I have a pretty much average reading speed but I listen to more audiobooks so that evens things out.
But you read so, so many books! I am now even more impressed :P
I do listen to a Audio Book once in a while and I do enjoy listening to them.
I never thought about using a Book Mark when reading a Physical Book. That is a great idea.
I mostly Read my Books on my Kindle cause it’s easier on me as far as seeing.
I enjoy watching your Videos. This Video was very helpful.
I don’t work so I have all kinds of time on my hands to sit and read.
I have other hobbies as well - Play The Piano - Crochet - Counted Cross Stitch - Quilting.
I do watch some TV but not a lot though.
You are so lucky that you get to work in A Publishing place. If I had a two hour Commute like you do I would be reading too.
I mostly buy my Books from Amazon for my Kindle.
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Thanks :) I'm glad the video was helpful in some way. I do recommend using a book mark to go down the lines - I've done it as long as I remember.
Books and Things - Thank You for the Bookmark Tip ❤️
I do some of these things but don’t have a commute so that’s tricky. Thanks for the video!
Thanks! The ocmmute definitely helps with reading . . .
I do the same thing with bookmarks! Someone taught me to do it in grade school and it's been a huge help ever since
It really does help!
Awesome. I do the same with carrying a book when I go out. But I find it neater and according to the mood of the book to read chapter by chapter! It feels like watching a whole episode of a show proper, rather than stopping in the middle of it 😂 i apply this same principle in both mediums hahaha
I just love always having a book with me :) Now I've been commuting less and working from home this year, I've become much more of a stickler for finishing the chapter actually.
I'm just starting a new job ! And I will be stuck on the bus around 1.5 hrs a day so I am so excited for it !!
Agreed - commuting is perfect for reading!
I have definitely timed myself reading different books to see how I read at different speeds depending on the type of book and how dense the writing is. Not weird at all. I love the little timer on my Kindle that calculates how long it will probably take me to finish the chapter or how long it will take to finish reading the entire book based on my previous reading speeds.
I'm glad I'm not the only one - it seems like a lot of us do it!
I have just read David Copperfield which I enjoyed very much especially having previously read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I really enjoyed comparing the two - both long books. Usually I like to savour the characters and the story so dont mind that I read slowly but David C was soooo long (1057 pages!) that my arms ached after a while and I would have to stop reading. I always enjoy your videos and look to your recommendations when it's my turn to choose a book for my book group. Thank you.
I'm not a fast reader but I find because I read a lot of books and read often, it doesn't really matter. I've never timed myself reading a book but that makes sense to be able to tell how long you'd be reading the book for to finish it. I've started using a bookmark to underline as I read too. I don't do it with all books but I have to do it with books that have more words per page, for instance I'm reading The Goldfinch at the moment and that has a lot more words per page than what I'm used to. Great video :)
Thanks Rachel :) I find using a bookmark so useful, especially with books with a lot of words on a page! How are you finding the Goldfinch . . . ? I was NOT a fan XD
Same, it's why I don't really read mass market paperbacks. The writing is too small and too much on a single page.
I'm unsure about The Goldfinch so far. I'm only around 150 pages in yet and I do love the premise and the focus around art. But then it hasn't hooked me and the writing feels really distant which I'm not fond of. That could be because I don't like child narrators though.
I read a lot myself,but we are bookworms and love reading. no matter what. i don't like movies but i read and and watch documentaries and classical music. but it's the place where you go and be part of the story and let our world from reality a break to make time to read.
I expect you're right! Bookworms make time for books!
OK I am totally timing my next reading session. Lol! I know that I am an incredibly slow reader though. Thanks for sharing!
It really is quite interesting to do!
I have an app that tracks your reading data and it is a real motivator! I especially like knowing how much longer it will take me to finish a book. And I have definitely gotten competitive with myself when it comes to the number of pages read in an hour!
Is this Bookly? I really need to check that out . . .
Books and Things Yes, it’s Bookly! It’s not free but I do think it’s worth the money, assuming you use it regularly.
I'm a slow reader. I'm afraid to rush the reading and finishing the story to early, I like to take it slow and create a solid relationship with the characters. That's partly why I read multiple books at once, to make them last longer; the other reason is as you also said, to increase the probability of having something that fits my mood in that moment :)
I also like your accent and I envy some one that reads as much as you. Even when I was at my reading best i have never read 20 books a month. Brava.
20 books is still a pretty rare month for me - 12-15 is probably my norm :)
@@katiejlumsden thank you for taking the time to send a friendly message. And have a good weekend.
Brilliant video, thanks so much 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks :)
Thanks :)
I also have a book with my everywhere I go, but lately I've been a bit slumpy, so I don't read as much as I would like to. I just can't seem to focus on it that well lately, so instead I'm trying to catch up on watching booktube
Booktube always puts me into a reading mood :)
Wow, I never thought of using a bookmark or something under the current line?! I also have astigmatism, I'm wearing glasses for it but it's not totally fixed or rather I can still use some help. I just tried it now to see if I read faster (I'm generally an average to slow reader) and it worked!!! I read so much faster! 😮 I removed the bookmark and got immediately back to my old familiar speed.... 😂 So, thanks for the tip!!! I'll try it!! (Currently reading Middlemarch, let's see!)
I also found that when I read on my phone on Kindle, I read a lot faster, especially if the letter are medium to small, maybe because I don't move my eyes a lot compared to a larger fond or a full size book page!
Funny, I had rewatched this video way back but I didn't pay much attention to the ruler bit as being a potentially helpful thing for me!
The bookmark thing genuinely makes so a different for me!
I like to know when I’m going to finish a book too! I would calculate how many pages I can read this book in one day, therefore divide the reading process into several days. The regularity is reassuring in some way. And gives you something to look forward to. “Three more days to go, then I can start a new book!”
Agreed! It's nice to know when I'm going to finish and start a new one.
You’re definitely not alone in counting how many pages you read per hour/figuring out how long it’ll take you to read a book! I love having ASMR rooms on in the background as I read, and they usually go for an hour, so I’ll check the page I’m on at the beginning of the video and the end, which will determine how many pages I read per hour, and how long it should roughly take to finish a book 😊
I'm SO glad I'm not the only one who times/counts their reading!
Haha it's so cute that you timed yourself. I don't find it weird at all :)
Nor do I. Everything seems to be timed and quantified nowadays (our dog is often pushed out of the way by a jogger who is trying to run faster than the day before!) I would be interested to know what effect speed has on retention and on enjoyment. For me personally one of the main joys of reading is taking my time, but I am old and grew up long before the concept of bucket lists had ever been thought of.
You are still amazing to me reading so many books....and at the same time ! My max is 2 one on my kindle and one real book, also one audio book. Did you ever read Before we were yours? Thankyou Katie
I don't know that one I'm afraid.
I like timing myself too. Especially if i want to see how long it might take me to read a book or if Im trying to schedule more reading. I dont do it religiously but i do like doing it.
I do find it really helpful.
Kelly and I do exactly the same thing in calculating how much longer we have left in the books we’re reading, based on our reading speeds in those particular books. I read, on average, 20 pages per hour. With something like Dan Brown, it’s more like 26; with something like Dickens, it’s 12-14 pages per hour.
It looks like something a lot of people do; I vaguely remember doing it even as a teenager.
Excellent reading tips Katie! My reading has increased after adding audio books in addition to physical books. I was wondering if you take notes on the books you’re reading for work and/or your personal reading? Do you keep a reading journal of the books you’ve read, or just use Goodreads?
I don't take notes for personal reading generally, but I do for work, usually on my kindle or on my phone. I mostly use goodreads to track my reading, but I also have a word document on my computer where I list the books I read and also note what format I read them in.
I have just started keeping track of how much pages I read and the past few years, really since joining booktube, I have been trying to prioritize reading over television and social media.
That makes sense.
Great video, I don't think It's strange at all that you determine how much you read in an hour, I think we readers enjoy things like that! I know I'm constantly calculating the pages I'll have to read per day, as well, and use post it's as markers. I think it's fun:)
Thanks :) I'm glad people don't think it's too weird - it seems like a lot of people do it too.
You read more if you have a deadline to finish the book because if the tempo slows down too much, you start to lose interest and it starts to drag! However, this philosophy can be applied to all walks of life.
I do time myself as well! I thought I was the only one to do that, but since English isn't my mother tongue, it takes a little more time to read, especially classics
It seems very the comments here that a lot of people do it!
I’m exactly the same about watching TV on my own. I can concentrate perfectly well when I’m with friends but the second I’m alone in front of the TV I’m fidgeting, picking up my phone, looking around the room... nothing like a book to keep your focus!
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I time myself too and I'm fully aware that it's weird but it's nice to know how long it might take me to read a book. I think I started after I got a Kindle because I liked how the Kindle estimated how much time it would take me to read so I started timing myself when I read physical books.
I wonder if that's why I started too - I don't think I often timed my reading before I got my most recent kindle, which estimates (usually very inaccurately!) how long I have left in a book.
Ahh! I got that Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England book a couple of weeks ago. It’s so good! The copy I got at Barnes & Noble has a different title though. Weird! Must be marketing for American readers?
Yeah, the US and UK editions have different titles. I'm not really sure why, but it happens a lot I guess.
I'm gradually becoming accustomed to listening to audiobooks at accelerated speeds. It does depend upon the original speech style and pace, with particular narrators. Audiobooks are awesome when rereading, in my experience. I love hearing Jane Austen novels. Her works seem meant to be read aloud.
I do love audiobooks, and yes, especially for rereading!
I hope you have enough time to visit Hawaii!! 😉😉😉😉
Thank you Katie! I'm very interested if and how you wrestle with occasional pesky passages of unintelligible syntax (I have that with Dickens) or semantics (I have that with almost every writer, fiction or non). Do you solve them after rereading or sometimes just move on, cherishing the grand picture?
I'm much more of a moving on and cherishing the grand picture kind of person! Occasionally I reread a sentence or two if I'm struggling, but I usually just read on.
I don't read anywhere near as many books as you, but I'm very much with you on reading to the last possible minute. Last time I was at work, two of my colleagues came up to me to acuse me of rudely ignoring them on the way in with my nose buried in Light In August. My boyfriend uses the bookmark technique after he heard that it's supposed to help you read significantly faster but I find it too fiddly.
Reading until the last possible minute is definitely the best way!
I do not read as much as you (I read about four books a month) but I am SO worried that i will lose my love for reading as I start university in a month. How did you keep up your reading at uni? Lovely video xo
So, I did English Literature and History at uni, so I had quite a lot of reading to do for uni; but other than my reading list books, I basically only read for pure pleasure during the holidays during my undergrad degree. I think it can be hard, but it depends on how you balance your time - and certainly in the country I was studying, holidays were long, and even when I was working in the holidays I got a lot of reading done then.
Do you check the "time left to finish this chapter or book" part of the Kindle to check yourself when you're reading on that? I usually have the page number turned on instead, but since you enjoy timing yourself, I wondered if you used it.
Yes, I always use it when reading on kindle :) I don't read that much on kindle these days though except for work, which is probably why I forgot to mention it.
I time myself as well!
It somehow helps!
I am missing my reading subways commutes of years ago!
I just found this app that does what you describe, you click when you start and stop reading and it will say how long it will take to finish the book and if you add a time for when you want to finish the book it will calculate how much you'll need to read per day. You can also listen to rain, or forest sounds etc. when reading. It's call Bookly. Not sponsored, lol, but I did think it was cool.
Bookly sounds good - somebody else mentioned it too. I must look into it. I do sometimes listen to rain sounds while reading on the train if people are being really loud around me.
Since I just subscribed to your book tube a few weeks ago, I just listened to this video today as I was curious as to how much you read. I thought I would let you know, since you asked, that I do time how many pages I can read in an hour. I wish I could read faster, but I read about 20 pages an hour on average. 5-10 for non-fiction, 15-20 for classical, and 20-30 for contemporary.
It is interesting to look at. Not sure where you're based, but UK typesetting tends to have much more space on the page, so I feel like that skews my page speed too.
@@katiejlumsden I am in California.
Haha oh my gosh I was just going to put up a video about tips for slow readers and one of the tips was to time yourself! Lol
I still dont know how it can help, it only pressures you to read faster and faster. Just read the damn book in your pace and enjoy. Lol
I don't know that I feel a pressure - I just like to know, you know? Sometimes it seems silly but it's a bit weirdly addictive.
@@katiejlumsden When it is just a matter of curiosity, it is okay, but when you use it to read faster than it means you pressure yourself to read faster lol.
Your channel is a literature-lover's paradise.
Thanks!
I play an aduduobook while play my sims 3 game after giving my sims 3 game up and tv and news for reading but now I’m playing my sims 3 while reading and I think I shout stop playing the sims game and go back to reading I’m not sure Wether to do that or not.
I read on physical book in the morning and one at night one ebook on my iPad apple book appt when I’m waiting for my dad combing out the loo or before dinner or commuting between places and audiobooks like when I’m eating and when I’m busy and between 12 midnight and 1 am, I mean if I can listen to an audiobook on CZcams at 2x why can’t I read words fast be a speed reader? Maybe it’s because I’m partially sighted or maybe it’s because iv have a minor learning disability im not sure.
I did wonder how you read so much...ever since school, as soon as I start, I fall asleep!But...i am now wondering if its cos i too have astigmatism and i am going to try the bookmark method!
The bookmark definitely helps!
Sleep apnea? I know that, for me, before I had my apnea treated, I’d fall asleep all the time and couldn’t read for more than 10 minutes. Now, I don’t have that problem anymore.
Dear Katie, any chance of your doing a video cast on Tom Jones (HF) ~
I'm wondering whether to read it or not ~ I know it's very long and Byzantine in its plotting ~ Colin ❤️
If I push myself, I can read 50 books in a year. I should try your bookmark trick.
what does the sign say behind you lol?
Oh, I am listening to Dombey and Son again!
Enjoy!
It never occurred to me that the occasional problem of following the line of text I'm on because it's blurring or I'm losing track might be because of my astigmatism! :0 Definitely not with every book, and usually if the font is small thanks to my new prescription, but go figure!
It probably is that! I've always read with a bookmark and found trouble following the line of the text without, and didn't realise for ages why that was.
I'm a tragically slow reader cursed with the compulsion to read every page at least twice. Audiobooks are my salvation. Even at 1,0 speed I get through books much faster.
I don't time myself but I set hourly/daily/weekly goals.
That makes sense - quite similar I imagine.
I time myself with Bookly app. Before that I brought a bookmark meant for children that had a timer.
I really must try Bookly - it sounds great.
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The only time I can listen to audio books is on a long road trip. But in an ordinary day, I either forget to listen to the audio book when I'm doing something else, or I stop doing something else and just listen to the audio book, and then I could just be reading an actual book. I think many people read faster than I do, i don't consider myself a fast reader at all, although I've taken one of those WPM tests and they say I'm an average reader. If I try to read faster, I loose comprehension, and since I read primarily for the pleasure of reading, there's no reason for me to speed through a book. I am intrigued by the idea of figuring out how many pages I typically read per hour though, that seems like a much more valuable and understandable measurement. I'm going to time myself. I'm sure it varies depending on whether the doggesses need to go outside, or I get interrupted, or my tea gets cold... but I can average it out. Fortunately I'm simply blessed with lots of time to read. Last year I read 111 books.
I definitely think pages per hour makes more sense to test than words per hour - I tend to see what my speed is per book before it varies a lot between books.
How have you speed up your reading?
With practice? I think the more you read, the faster you become.
You can't seriously be counting audio books in your reading total.
I had no idea you could speed up audiobooks 🤯
It might depend on the platform, but on both audible and kobo you can. You can also speed up CZcams videos too :D
Hey Katie! Are we doing Victober this year? (Please say yes)
But of course! The Goodreads group is up and active here: www.goodreads.com/group/show/722891-victober-2019 and challenges/announcement videos will appear in the next month. We're just working out the challenges.
I can't read as quickly as I used to. But I only need to read for me.
I feel like people who read really fast is sort of like watching a movie at 2x times speed but you experience like it is at a normal speed. At most I can read 50 pages in an hour if I'm really trying.
What happens if you have a book you just can not put down? Lol.
I am such a slow reader... wow
AUDIOBOOKS ARE NOT BOOKS
btw i like your videos.
In my opinion, audiobooks are books, and listening to an audiobook is reading. It's just a different way of doing it, in the same way that a kindle book is still a book. I think a full cast audiobook is a slightly different kettle of fish, but a direct audiobook, where someone is reading the book - if you listen to that, you're still reading the book.
@@katiejlumsdenThings I only read non-fiction and its impossible to take notes in between audiobooks on the other side on kindle or 'real book' i can think and take notes whenever I want.
I think it doesn't matter how much books you finish, what matters is how well you have read those books. you can finish 100s of books in audio but what's the point if you can't even take insights from those books.
for me, books are not entertainment they are the source of knowledge and improvement.
@@katiejlumsden I will never be convinced that reading War and Peace or Gravity's Rainbow...on paper or kindle...is nearly the same experience or achievement as listening to the story. Also neurologically processing words visually (or via braille) is wildly different than listening to words. We need a new word :)
20 books a month is equal to one book every 1.5 days or every 36 hours. That can only be done if you're unemployed.
I have a full-time job, and I am sometimes about to read 20 books a month, though certainly not every month. I'm a fast reader, and if I read short books and listen to audiobooks as well, 20 isn't impossible for me.
I am one of those weirdos that counts how much I have read in an hour. I also divide the number of pages I have to read in a book with the number of hours or days until I have to return it to the library (especially new releases).
It seems from the comments here that actually there are a lot of us! :)
......now I'm searching for jobs an hour away so I can read on my commute !! Lol
I really do get so much reading done while commuting.
But clearly, the most important question is: do you dog-ear your books?
I do not. But I do break all the spines, so . . .
Greetings from Puerto Rico. I like your videos and envy your monthly reading capacity.
I wonder if victorians had such strange habits when reading lol.
Ha I wonder!