Can you read a 100 pages in a day?

[Anonymous]

I read about 1.5 pages a minute so that would take me a little over an hour. But that is only if I really like the book. Otherwise it would be a longer trudge.

[Anonymous]

If you can get ahold of the audio book, you can ramp up the speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. If you're stressed out by this, I'm not sure you can handle being in a book club.

2. Last time someone on DCUM had to read a few pages before a deadline, they were offended when someone asked if they had dyslexia. Do you have dyslexia? It's relevant, because there are easier ways to read with such a disability. One of them is to listen to the audiobook while you read. 100 pages before tomorrow is nothing, which is why a red flag is popping up.

I don’t have dyslexia and I think 100 pages before tomorrow morning is not nothing. (Also I’m a lawyer). Some of us are slow readers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An audiobook or reading out loud is about 25 pages per hour, so even if you listened to the book it would only take 4 hours. Most people read much faster than that when reading silently.

You don't listen to it normal speed, newbie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1. If you're stressed out by this, I'm not sure you can handle being in a book club.

2. Last time someone on DCUM had to read a few pages before a deadline, they were offended when someone asked if they had dyslexia. Do you have dyslexia? It's relevant, because there are easier ways to read with such a disability. One of them is to listen to the audiobook while you read. 100 pages before tomorrow is nothing, which is why a red flag is popping up.

I don’t have dyslexia and I think 100 pages before tomorrow morning is not nothing. (Also I’m a lawyer). Some of us are slow readers.

Even Book Club books? We're not talking legal briefs here. I go really slowly when I read a technical paper for my work - I have to. Every sentence is loaded and tricky. But for the average fiction, I go much faster.

[Anonymous]

It depends on what else is going on and how interested I am in the book. If it’s a boring book and I can’t sit down for any extended period of time until after bedtime, no. If the kids are busy and I’m interested in the book, yes.

[Anonymous]

OP here. 60 pages left!

[Anonymous]

Finished!

[Anonymous]

Yay! Good for you!
Hope your book club meeting is enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

What was the book? Did you like it?

[Anonymous]

I read 50 pages an hour, but I probably read faster than most. You got this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the book? Did you like it?

I want to know the book, too!

I would say it depends on reading level and what else I have going on. And time of day. If I went to a coffee shop in the morning with a very readable book, I'd blast through 100 pages pretty fast. But I usually read before bed and am asleep within 10 pages.

[Anonymous]

Of course. I read faster than I listen (even sped up) so audio wouldn't work if I needed it finished quickly.

[Anonymous]

I can.
I once started a James Patterson book at 5 am when my husband went in for knee surgery and at 4 pm when he was discharged I finished it. I left it at the nurse's station for someone else to enjoy. When I was in jr. high I took a speed reading class and learned tricks to help read faster yet still retain what was written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course. But also your book club shouldn’t give you stress.0

+1