Currently, my voluntarily-read-book-this-year count is at a whopping 1 (as it's been around zero in 2022, 2021, and probably 2020... in my defense, I've started a few). I don't hate reading, and I do really like the concept of literature (like lit analysis).
Any book -- of at least 100 pages of text -- that I'm not forced to read (by school or whatever else) and read the entirety of counts. The one book I've read was started because of school, which I'm counting because I voluntarily finished it. If I've read five books and started another by the end of 2023, it'll count if I finish the sixth before February 2024.
count: 2 (Apr, Aug)
I'll update this ^^ description whenever I do actually finish a book.
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How about audiobooks?
If you tried and didn't manage, here are the top 2 reasons:
1. Did you try to listen to a book you actually wanted to, or something you "should" like a school textbook?
2. Did your app have ( + you often used ) a button that goes back ~10 seconds?
Both of these are really important, and can alone get someone to not like audiobooks
@YonatanCale maybe! I'll definitely try sometime soon if i get the chance to. I think the main skepticism i have w/ them is that they're in a middle ground of necessary attention -- not really something you can zone in and out of (like music), and not really something I can, personally, completely immerse myself in (like a movie). Hopefully that makes sense, but that being said, i dont think i've ever listened to one on my own accord
@cloe my default recommendation would be to listen while you're commuting or washing dishes or something like that. Does that make sense for you? (it doesn't for everyone)
@cloe I somewhat agree and find some types of books impossible for an audio format (don't even think about philosophy texts). But there are others which I find go really well with the slightly less attentive state.
Sci-fi: Orwell/Asimov/Bradbury types or certain more modern ones like Andy Weir,
Biographies, fantasy, anything ~self-help-y like atomic habits or how minds change, some fiction -gladwell, Crichton, amor tolels, etc, not heavy or deeply historical fiction quite as much.
Just some thoughts!
@YonatanCale I'll try that! (in terms of counting toward market resolution,
i dont think ill count them, but i also dont think that it will ultimately affect anything)
@Conflux unfortunately :( I'm like a good way through three or four books that i've dropped between march and now though & i'll definitely try to finish one before school starts
@cloe after school starts I might try to read more on the way to school and stuff, which could be really helpful