how many books do you read a day?

[HenrikOlsen]

Well, that just makes it easier "there isn't any cool tech". There! All details remembered.

[suntrack2]

thanks henrik for the instant memory event show, couple of time if we read the book, later if we can't recall the whole book if the notes have not been taken, for reading the book and understanding the same, taking notes from the book is a good habbit. many people have a nice memory with them, they can recall the pages of dictionary very well, when we ask them about their vocabulary power. this is all god gifted quality with the people.

[drodo2002]

When I started reading as a kid, I used to love read, ahem say watch picture books then put little effort and started reading comics. I loved them, not so that I don't at present. I read so many books after that. I presume everbody have to read that much. Coursebooks, why the hell they make them so boring .
Then, I realised the truth in college and decided not to read anymore books. I used to manage with friendly notes or just remembering lectures.
Now, at work, I have plenty of time, but short attention span. So, I read 4-5 books daily. And continue to read the same for complete month .
Current four are "The Planets" by Dava Sobel, "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Carl Sagan/Ann Druyan and "Why Sex is Fun" by Jared Diamond.
Owning a book is too costly, I believe in policy of sharing, so my room just have 4 books at a time

[suntrack2]

thanks drodo2002, you are believing in policy of sharing, that's very fine. owning a book is too costly this is true, but you kno many people prefer to read second hand books. the second hand book is pretty one and the information is also wise one and through. i heard about Carl Sagan very much. you are reading the books that's nice, keep it continue.

sunil

[Maksutov]

Here's where we were at a while back.

Meanwhile the reading habits tend to gobble up about 5 to 10 tomes a week.

It should be noted that the younger members here have what's known as "required reading" which is different from what we oldsters choose to read on our own.

[ToSeek]

I used to buy books a lot, but now that our house is overflowing I try to buy only books that I expect to read again, expect to use as a reference, expect not to be able to find at any library I have access to, or for which I really want to support the author or publisher.

I still buy too many books, though.

[suntrack2]

overflowing, that's funtastic "book-power". Toseek !



sunil

[ToSeek]

Hey, I still have books in my parents' attic that have been in their house since 1979.

[drodo2002]

thanks drodo2002, you are believing in policy of sharing, that's very fine. owning a book is too costly this is true, but you kno many people prefer to read second hand books. the second hand book is pretty one and the information is also wise one and through. i heard about Carl Sagan very much. you are reading the books that's nice, keep it continue.

sunil

wow, you write in verses. that reminds me of Vikram Seth.
Second or first doesn't matter till its not in bad shape. Anyway, its very rare that anyone will go through a same book more than once. I buy books sometime but they are lost within a short span.

[Gillianren]

wow, you write in verses. that reminds me of Vikram Seth.
Second or first doesn't matter till its not in bad shape. Anyway, its very rare that anyone will go through a same book more than once. I buy books sometime but they are lost within a short span.

Really? Because most of my friends reread books. I, personally, have had books fall apart from rereading. (Yes, I replace them; yes, they were usually books I bought used.)

[suntrack2]

i have a habit to transfer the book to others free of cost if the same has read by me for number of times. congrats toseek, you are just 63 posts away to complete the magical figure "14000".

sunil

[Argos]

I must be missing something... People here are saying that they read (and understand) a full (maybe more than one) 300-page book in a day?

Well, I usually read 3 books at the same time, but I take days to finish them.

[suntrack2]

wow, argos, all the best, you are almost reading 300x3=900 pages, that's awesome.

keep it continue.

[ToSeek]

I used to work on multiple books at the same time. Now it's hard enough to finish one.

[Gillianren]

I must be missing something... People here are saying that they read (and understand) a full (maybe more than one) 300-page book in a day?

Well, I usually read 3 books at the same time, but I take days to finish them.

In fact yes, depending on various factors, I can read and understand at least one full 300-page book in a day. Granted, I don't have much else to do with my time, and granted, given my lack of a functional library card and further lack of the funds to buy many books, I'm rereading a lot, but I have, in the past, done just that with new books. In fact, for my banned books contract in college (that's a three-month course of study), I read 115 books just for the contract, leaving out the three days wherein I refused to read any book that I knew had been banned, just so I wasn't doing nothing but schoolwork for a while.

And no, not all of them were 300 pages, most notably the picture book Sylvester and His Magic Pebble, which is not only substantially shorter but has very few words on the page. However, quite a few of the books were more than 300 pages, most notably Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. I also read all four (this was in 2000) Harry Potter books in three days.

[HenrikOlsen]

Pillars of the Earth, I loved that one, still have it on my shelves. Why would anyone ban that one?

Thinks back a bit ... oh, well, there's that ... and that ... oh, and that scene was great too.

Thanks for reminding me, it's time to reread it.

[Pleiades]

Gosh i haven't been reading much since finishing graduate school. My shelves have mostly school books. But i like that idea of a banned list, i think i'll google a list and start up some recreational reading. I'll have to thank Gillian for that idea.

[snarkophilus]

I'm in the 2-4 books at a time category,

I am terrible for this! I have four books open on my coffee table right now, and I'm sure there are at least couple more beside my bed. This is just the fiction, mind you. Miscellaneous math and chemistry and computer books are all over the place, with markers indicating where I've left off. Occasionally I pick them all up, which means my book shelves have dozens of pieces of paper sticking up from many different partially-completed books. I don't even count art or chess or RPG books, as those are things that you don't just sit down and read through, but they're all sitting around, partially completed.

I read English at a constant 100 pages/hour, no matter how simple or complicated the book, unless I'm taking notes. It's just the rate at which I turn pages. My brain adjusts to what my hands are doing. So on a week where I decide I want to read through my Hardy Boys collection, I'll get through 20 or 30 books easily. On a week where I want to read through my Michael Crichton collection, it's more like 4 or 5. If I decide I only want to read French or Old English for a week or two, I'll maybe get through three books per week, because I need to read those aloud (in my head, but aloud in my head, if that makes sense) to understand them. Poetry is slower, too, for the same reason. Some weeks I am of the opinion that everything sucks and I just don't read at all.

I love owning books. If I'm ever rich, I'll start collecting old ones, just so I can smell them and look at their bindings and touch their pages. I'll have a whole floor of my house, just packed floor to ceiling with books. I'll put in extra walls, just so I can have more shelf space. As it is, I have a paltry 400 here, and probably twice that number cluttering up my parents' house (although my mom has thousands upon thousands, and my few hundred is just a small part of the general collection). I even get rid of ones I don't like, but there are so many I do like... I try to read each one at least once a year, to justify having them all. I've probably been through Jurassic Park, my default travelling book, fifty times in the last ten or fifteen years (it is falling to pieces -- I need a new copy). I got new Lord of the Rings books four years ago, as they were starting to lose pages. The Xanth books are starting to show significant wear, too...

Yay for books!

[mid]

Put it this way: What was once the garage is now the library, and our book collection takes up more space than the DVDs, CDs and videogames combined.

Which is saying a lot.

[suntrack2]

thanks mid for the reply.
well henrik are you a poet, because in your writing poetry word has come, that's why i am asking.

Toseek, once upon a time we were moving in a train towards a long journey, i kept some books in my bag to read it in the journey spare time, but what happened in the train boggie we had a great people to discuss the verious topics, we were also discussing on the books too, that GD was the funtastic one with the other unknown people in the train boggie, during that course of journey, i forget all my books in the bag to read.( i forget to keep the book in my hands at that time).

thanks drdo2002 for calling me vikram seth!

[Gillianren]

Gosh i haven't been reading much since finishing graduate school. My shelves have mostly school books. But i like that idea of a banned list, i think i'll google a list and start up some recreational reading. I'll have to thank Gillian for that idea.

The ALA keeps records of banned and challenged books in the American school system/libraries; they're a good place to start. (You're welcome.)

[ToSeek]

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

[HenrikOlsen]

The nice thing about such a list is that you're more likely to find absolutely brilliant writing there than on any bestseller list.

Another list is here for a list of banned books that are online, the nice think about this list is that it gives examples of why they where banned.

An illustrated edition of "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in two California school districts in 1989. Following the Little Red-Cap story from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the book shows the heroine taking food and wine to her grandmother. The school districts cited concerns about the use of alcohol in the story.

[Gillianren]

The nice thing about such a list is that you're more likely to find absolutely brilliant writing there than on any bestseller list.

Oh, there's also some pretty bad stuff, but yes, by and large, any banned books list will consist of some of the greatest writing in any given language. (Hence the appearance of the list of such authors as Mark Twain and William Shakespeare--well, I'm not sure Shakespeare's on that list, but he's on the really long one I have.)