/lit/ - Literature

>>21518904
>he only reads one book at a time

>>21518904
>non-stop focused reading
Jesus, take a break anon.

I have never read a single book
Nor a poem, epistle, prosaic review
Never a single book have I read
Though once and twice and thrice I bit
and bite and swallow many pages at a time
like the book eating boy they're my broccoli
And rumble bumble chundering downstairs goes
Wordsworth, Ishiguro, and Rowling
and out my arse as
poo!

>>21518930
If you know you know

>>21518904
It took me about a week

I wouldn't know as I didn't stop the time nor look at it. The only thing of relevance is what you got out of the words and the text as a whole.

>>21518904
Readinglength is a notoriously retarded measure.

>>21518904
No, they cannot

>>21518904
>Speed reading and retaining 10%
May as well go to a five star restaurant and gobble up your meal in two minutes without stopping to savour it.

It doesn’t say “finish”

>>21518904
the math doesn't add up

>>21519557
13h can still be done in a day

>>21519563
A lot of books can be read in a day, if you're just trying to get through it quickly. Not sure what your point is. The average person is not going to be able to read Moby Dick at a quick pace and parse everything that's being said, though

>>21518930
I do read one book at a time. Read over 100 last year.

>>21518904
Maybe in 1990. Not in today’s climate.

>>21518904
Then why is the audiobook 21 hours long?

>>21519557
What? Why does the site say 94,500 words?
Also what the fuck is this search function? It doesn't give search results just one single entry.

>not reading it in 2 hours 44 minutes

>>21518904
>Looks up average audio book length

Yeah I am going to call bullshit on wherever you pulled your numbers from op.
The "average person" can't both speed read and comprehend or retain at that rate.

Also, I doubt the "average person" is willing or able to read at that rate for 6 hours in a single day. Especially if it was their first time reading the material.
Humans aren't machines.

I obviously haven't read the book but I know what happens. There's a big white whale and it flops around a bit and like kills people. And then they go to starbucks.

ok let's go

>>21519899
>The average reader
>Reading at 300 wpm
Those two things are incompatible

>>21519844
>based on page count
Because it's retarded and doesn't factor in public domain books being printed in the cheapest way possible (i.e. small font = less paper).

>>21518904
I haven't read it

>>21519893
You missed the part where they play in a big bucket of sperm and hold hands

>>21519899
You might as well take a nap in that time and you’ll still probably learn and remember as much about Being and Time as you will reading it for 11 hours straight

>>21518904
2 weeks

>>21519537
Brainlet cope

>>21519805
>"This is a Libra-Vox recording. All Libra-Vox recordings..."

>>21518904
About three days. It was during that time of my life where I was teaching in the day for money, and doing opioids in the evening, and, on account of addiction, was poor as fuck. I did not have electricity in my apartment because I spent the electricity bill money on oxy, so I'd read by candlelight once the sun had set, high as fuck.
I have never read more in my life than I did in that period, and it is not inconceivable to read Moby Dick in a day at all.

>>21519805
>speaking is as fast as reading
If you read aloud at the pace you read it would be so fast as to be unpleasant, since when you read you read multiple words at once whereas when you speak you speak a sound at a time and at a realistic pace of a conversation or a speech

Just two or three days
I did skip the parts about whales though

>>21520452
>I did skip the parts about whales though

90% of the people here who claim to be able to read 250 wpm for 8 hours straight (even with some snack breaks) are either lying and misjudging their own abilities

>>21520685
>he subvocalizes
>he doesn't do amphetamines before reading
>he is not familiar with Tai Lopez' gulp method
>he doesn't scan one page with each eye and synthesize the information in real time in his mind

>>21519844
Based off the page count it's the abridged version of Moby Dick.

>>21520196
that was the joke-being-made

>>21518904
>reading 250 words per minute
That's too fast

>>21520249
He’s fucking right you dipshit. It’s probably more like speedrunning with 0% retention. Pro tip: it takes 3 reads to grasp a topic. No you aren’t different. Nobody gets 100% grip from 1 scan. That’s called a computer and you aren’t pressing each fiber of the book to perfect replication.

>>21518980
One audio book in each ear, one eye on each book. Four books absorbed at once, 6 hours and 18 minutes of study, read Moby Dick four times at once in one day. Memorize the entire novel and recall it from memory with musical cantillation on the high mountains of Peru.

Now you are beginning to understand literature.

>>21519942

I prefer smaller fonts and more words per page honestly.

Small fonts and very thin pages is how you fit 66 ancient books in one Bible.

This printing format is at the origin or printing itself and goes back towards illuminated manuscripts, books were once very rare.

>>21523600

origin of printing itself*

The paragraph format of printed novels and scientific research papers are very similar to the formatting of the written Torah

>>21518904
any particular version of moby dock i should read for my first time?

>>21519646
You could have read at least 200, but stay pleb