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YSK: 15 minutes of reading a day translates to 12 - 20 books a year (crazypeople.online)

submitted 4 months ago by hamid@crazypeople.online to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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[–] pipe01@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How do you find new books to read?

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Get old enough, and you forget them faster than you can read. Just rotate

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I've forgotten how often I've read Pratchett's Night Watch.

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[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago

I read Going Postal and Making Money every year. I have every audiobook version for the books. I sometimes read the third one but I'm still annoyed that his Alzheimer's got bad before he could write 'Taking Taxes' and we got a simpler one about trains.

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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy will hate me for this but I subscribe to Amazon kindle unlimited. Since I read so much, I definitely couldn’t afford to pay for each book and the local library is pretty hit or miss on availability. Ultimately most of what I read is entertaining garbage but when you read compulsively like I do, the entertaining part is more important than the quality.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

I don't read nearly as much as you, but something like 60 or 70 books a year. I found the opposite to be true: I could find way more that I wanted to read on the Libby library app than on Kindle unlimited. I mostly read SF and fantasy, so I go though all the Hugo and Nebula nominees and read recommendations from places like Locus Magazine. Then I tag those books that interest me in the library app, and place holds (reservations) on a handful of the ones not currently available and start reading ones that are. It seems to work pretty well with zero dollars.

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago*

I always have a bunch of books on hold on Borrowbox so there's always one available when I need a new book. Then I start that one and take the rest off hold.

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[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago

The term is 'slop' I believe. I had a KU account for years and since I mostly read GameLit and LitRPG I have been tied to Amazon because very few KDP Authors publish traditionally outside of special print runs.

What annoyed me most at the time I cancelled was authors putting book 1 in KU and then not the rest of the series. Forcing you to buy the books at inflated prices. Kind of like drug dealers.

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I mean, Stephen King has something like ~60 published novels (from memory)… that would keep even the most passionate readers busy for a year!

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Though given how later on he tried to weave all his books together into a single shared universe, there's probably a bunch of arguments out there about which order to read them in.

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