But day-um! You read a lot Trent!

do you make notes to help you remember what you’ve read or do u have some type of read and review method?

I forgot a few more: time with your wife, time to visit the parents, and inlaws, and (ta-dah) time to read blogs!

Do you sleep?

When you guys mention speed reading are you guys reading everything and comprehending everything? i want to increase my reading speed because I read incredibly slow. It takes me a week for a single book, that’s with putting in an hour a day.

A quote you’ll appreciate: “The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter”.

1. Always carry a book. You’ll be amazed how much reading you can get done in waiting rooms, lines, elevators, lunch breaks, and other odd snippets of your day that would otherwise go to waste.

2. Read multiple books at a time. It’s easier to get excited about picking up a book if you have three or four you can dig into depending on your mood.

3. The best way to learn to read faster is just to read more. And the best way to maximize the amount of time you spend reading is to read all sorts of things, not just good-for-your sorts of materials. Murder mysteries, romance novels, thrillers, etc. are all quick, undemanding reads that can provide the same sort of escape as movies or television, but as you get used to reading more you’ll find it easier to read more serious works as well.

4. If a book just isn’t speaking to you, no matter how much of a classic it is, or how highly recommended, stop reading it. Life’s too short to read dull books.

5. Make reading a social activity. It’s much easier to get excited about reading if you know friends will read and discuss the same books as you.

6. I find I concentrate best when I’m engaging more of my senses – listening to music, eating dinner, reading in the park or at the beach. However, my boyfriend concentrates best in a silent, empty room with no distractions. It helps to figure out which kind of reader you are.

7. Unless you’re trying to fall asleep, don’t read last thing at night or in bed.

8. When you’re tackling complex, sophisticated works, look for essays or reviews that discuss the book and can support your own reading. You wouldn’t get very far understanding art history just looking at rows of paintings at a museum, or learning a programming language by looking at lines of code. Similarly with literature, it helps to have an expert voice to guide you.

9. I don’t go for this, but some people swear by audiobooks, especially if you have a commute. These can often be checked out from the library as well.

10. The best books are worth revisiting. I reread my favorite books every few years, and get something new out of them every time.

I borrowed it and had a general idea but it is difficult for me to practice.

thanks

UncleOxidant: I liked it. It’s not really a personal finance book, though – not sure where it would fit here.

I did a few calculations and it just blew my mind. If you read 4 books a week that’s about 1,457 pages. Hard to tell how many pages a book has, I know, but I took the list you posted in this article, left off Wealth of Nations — 1,200 pages — and another one I couldn’t find the numbeer of pages for and came up with an average of 364 pages per book — which seems quite reasonable as an average book length to me.

So, 364 x 4 books = 1,457 pages divided by 11 hours (1 hour per day for 5 days and 3 hours a day for each of 2 days) = 132 pages per hour!!!

That is mind boggling. I spent my whole working life reading (I was a literature professor and researcher/writer) and really read fast. But I never, ever came near 132 pph. And the stuff you’re reading is not simple, mindless, escape literature either.

Congratulations!!!!

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