How to read more than 50+ books a year

[escrow.ms]

Well, Everything depends on book material and your surroundings. If it's a good book, you will obviously try to finish it as soon as possible.
 I've finished Kane and Abel in 24 hours and The Fountain Head in just 2 days. I've read total 78 Books in 13 month of my incarceration period.

[dazbog835]

This whole speed reading is a myth, i can give you a book about a very specific Topic where you don't even know the meaning of the words. And there a sentences in there that should give you a lot to think about before you can understand.

Speed Reading is for dime novels. If i read a book and i can understand everything easily when its not a novel, im not reading it, there is nothing to learn from it.

You can read Platos republic and think really hard about every sentence. If you speed read it im pretty sure u learned nothing.

depends how you understand speed reading. There is the breezing through the book at the speed of light... kinda skimming it as it were... and then there's the actual process of reading without the pronouncing all the words in your head as i described above.

that's an actual problem some of us have, that other don't have, and usually you have a hard time even explaining it to them, because reading in a way that they do (i believe the correct way) is so natural and engrained, they can't even imagine any other way.

but yes, I agree hard texts take a longer time to read because you're moving from sentence to sentence, parsing them, pondering, ... but this would still be done faster by a normal reader, than it's done by me and people like me.

Well, Everything depends on book material and your surroundings. If it's a good book, you will obviously try to finish it as soon as possible.
 I've finished Kane and Abel in 24 hours and The Fountain Head in just 2 days. I've read total 78 Books in 13 month of my incarceration period.

I always figured if I ever got incarcerated I would take that time to learn, read, etc. Is it difficult to focus on that in jail or is that the only thing you can focus on?

[machasm]

The trick with reading books is to not spend to much time reading online!
Since the dawn of the internet I seem to be spending an endless amount of time reading and replying in forums.

[escrow.ms]

I always figured if I ever got incarcerated I would take that time to learn, read, etc. Is it difficult to focus on that in jail or is that the only thing you can focus on?

It's the only thing you can focus on if you are living in a separate cell and the hardest thing to do when you are living with 50+ Inmates in a big room (my case).

[dazbog835]

I always figured if I ever got incarcerated I would take that time to learn, read, etc. Is it difficult to focus on that in jail or is that the only thing you can focus on?

It's the only thing you can focus on if you are living in a separate cell and the hardest thing to do when you are living with 50+ Inmates in a big room (my case).

Does that mean with bunkbeds or regular bed in one big room? damn, that's pretty distracting, I'd bet. so are you still in, or is this something from before? sorry if I'm getting too personal

[escrow.ms]

I always figured if I ever got incarcerated I would take that time to learn, read, etc. Is it difficult to focus on that in jail or is that the only thing you can focus on?

It's the only thing you can focus on if you are living in a separate cell and the hardest thing to do when you are living with 50+ Inmates in a big room (my case).

Does that mean with bunkbeds or regular bed in one big room? damn, that's pretty distracting, I'd bet. so are you still in, or is this something from before? sorry if I'm getting too personal

No beds just empty room. Every prisoner gets 1 plate, 2 bowl and 2 piece of cloths for bedding. You can get books and clothes from your family member. Nothing else.
Ps: I was released 4 months ago on bail. ( I've spent 13 months in jail under judicial custody. I wasn't convicted)


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[Zumwalt]

This whole speed reading is a myth, i can give you a book about a very specific Topic where you don't even know the meaning of the words. And there a sentences in there that should give you a lot to think about before you can understand.

Speed Reading is for dime novels. If i read a book and i can understand everything easily when its not a novel, im not reading it, there is nothing to learn from it.

You can read Platos republic and think really hard about every sentence. If you speed read it im pretty sure u learned nothing.

depends how you understand speed reading. There is the breezing through the book at the speed of light... kinda skimming it as it were... and then there's the actual process of reading without the pronouncing all the words in your head as i described above.

that's an actual problem some of us have, that other don't have, and usually you have a hard time even explaining it to them, because reading in a way that they do (i believe the correct way) is so natural and engrained, they can't even imagine any other way.

but yes, I agree hard texts take a longer time to read because you're moving from sentence to sentence, parsing them, pondering, ... but this would still be done faster by a normal reader, than it's done by me and people like me.

Well, Everything depends on book material and your surroundings. If it's a good book, you will obviously try to finish it as soon as possible.
 I've finished Kane and Abel in 24 hours and The Fountain Head in just 2 days. I've read total 78 Books in 13 month of my incarceration period.

I always figured if I ever got incarcerated I would take that time to learn, read, etc. Is it difficult to focus on that in jail or is that the only thing you can focus on?

Maybe its start with how you think, not everybody is thinking in talking to himself. But i don't think that anyone will be breezing trough a completely book with an unfamiliar topic and can takeaway anything from it.

[guesswhat]

Well, Everything depends on book material and your surroundings. If it's a good book, you will obviously try to finish it as soon as possible.
 I've finished Kane and Abel in 24 hours and The Fountain Head in just 2 days. I've read total 78 Books in 13 month of my incarceration period.

In highc school, literature teachers are pushing students to read books and novels in a mandatory term. This is how you can make one person to read 50+ books a year. And it works.

[dazbog835]

No beds just empty room. Every prisoner gets 1 plate, 2 bowl and 2 piece of cloths for bedding. You can get books and clothes from your family member. Nothing else.
Ps: I was released 4 months ago on bail. ( I've spent 13 months in jail under judicial custody. I wasn't convicted)


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Pretty shitty conditions. Where was this?

[jacksondawn53]

we have to read every day one hour then we have to complete.

[escrow.ms]

Pretty shitty conditions. Where was this?

Mumbai, India. Every single Prison is same in India

[revo1044]

You should read a book every week , the year has 52 weeks so you will read 52 books

[Drnice]

That was a very interesting article that can boost ones interest of reading.
Mp3 is sound and deals with listening, not reading.

[Capeshifter]

It's not that hard.. elon musk was reading about 10 books a month so you'll be able to read 50 year if you want to, or you wait for the technology, where you'll be able to eat a pill and know a specific book.. make your choice

[henryleo589]

it depends how we understanding speed reading or slow reading. if we have reading habit then it is easy to reading. we have no habit for reading books it is very difficult. we try to spend one or two hours in a day for reading. reading is depends that book and surrounding environment. in the Internet easy to reading. because now a days most of the people depends on Internet. so we have time spending on Internet for reading books. so choose good books, timing, surroundings, our mindset.

[madtek]

it's all about consistency, there is a technique called habit chains you can use that to train yourself to read a little everyday, you will be amazed how much you can achieve with those small efforts as long as they are consistent of course

[bramborakymilenec]

Interesting read (pardon the pun)

[ReyshElle]

Its not possible bro...
If you read day and night without doing anyother work u can...
If the books are in mp3 format u can listen then..
Listning is more easy than reading...

For me I prefer reading
reading is a lot better than listening, more enjoying to be exact.

[MrHeron]

This is totally subjective to the reader in question.  I don't speed read, but I read fast and have a very high reading comprehension level.  If you have a low comprehension level it's going to take longer as you struggle with context, meaning and definition.  I don't even know how many books I read in a year, it's a whole lot.  And books is a wide ranging topic as well.  Plato's republic isn't very long but it will be a struggle if you aren't versed in classical philosophy.  On the flip side war and peace isn't that much of a struggle to get through except for the length.  Pop fiction isn't hard to comprehend and aren't long, usually so they'll go much faster.  Biographies and nonfiction accounts/manuals also vary in length and complexity of the subjects presented.  So yes, of course you can read 100 books in a year, it depends on the reader and the books. 

[Fieldrunner]

My goal is to read 2 books a month