I committed to reading one nonfiction book per day for 365 days.
I'm currently on day 87/365. You can follow along here: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/35434507
My previous record was reading one book per day for 180 days. I was doing that full time, and this time I'm not, so this challenge is quite harder.
I didn't really define how long the book has to be, but the shortest one I've read so far has been ~100 pages. Usually, they are in the 200-400 page range.
I'm also taking a loose interpretation of "nonfiction." If it's a fiction book that's heavily focused on learning, then I will count it. But I won't count books that are mostly fantasy or sci-fi, for example.
I'm not allowed to queue up books in advance. e.g. read 3 books in a day and then don't read for the next few days. I can make partial progress on other books, but I can't finish them on the same day.
For books that are really long, like 500+ pages, I'm allowed to split them in half and count them as 2 books. I haven't used this rule yet, but I may in the future.
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@DanSparkman it's probably about half with my eyes half listening. I try to listen while commuting or doing household chores and read with my eyes at night since the retention is about 30-40% lower when listening.
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Your verb was always "read" never "listen to." And you spent a few paragraphs defining at book, but no time explaining that you have 7h per week (as an example) to listen to books in the car. Or that you listen at 3 times speed.
If you post this question again that is essential information.
@light Yes! I'm roughly 2 months behind on updating my goodreads. The total books read won't end up being 365 as I've split some books over 2 days that are too long to read.
On average I read about 3 hours per day at roughly 450-550 WPM. Depends a lot on the book, as more narrative style reads are easy to go to 3.5x speed on Audible while more academic books I listen to at 2.5x.
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