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Currently, for me, 1-50 is the average, simply because I have not yet found a book that pressed me on to read 100 pages or more in a day.

And the reason I put 1,000 in here is because I have actually heard someone say they read a whole compilation, which I think amassed 1,500 pages, in one day. So it's always a possibility.

They say the average college student can read 300 words per minute. Maybe this is no longer true. 300 words is one or two pages. I once took a speed reading class which was supposed to allow one to read 1000 words per minute. Unfortunately I have some vision problem and now read only ebooks. Ebooks are not paginated the same as printed books. Good luck to all the speed readers with good vision.

If I’m really feeling inspired or enjoy the book, I can finish it in a day! But currently I’m reading 1-50 pages per day in multiple books.

Barb wrote: "They say the average college student can read 300 words per minute. Maybe this is no longer true. 300 words is one or two pages. I once took a speed reading class which was supposed to allow one to..."

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I don't have very good vision either (one eye can see partially better, and I have floaters). I used to be a much faster reader, but as I've gotten older, and got out of that adolescent stage, reading hasn't been as rampant.

ClaraBelle wrote: "If I’m really feeling inspired or enjoy the book, I can finish it in a day! But currently I’m reading 1-50 pages per day in multiple books."

Same! I can't just push myself to read a book I don't like all the way in a couple of days, even if it is only like 300 pages. It just becomes a slog. I'm sure some people can do that, but I've just never been the type.

Uh... If I didn't get a headache, and the book interested me... Than on a weekday? Probably 50-100. Weekend? At least 50-150... Day someone (me or a sibling) is sick? At least 100-350.

So... Really depends.

167 today but it all depends on the book!

150-200

I can knock out a small book in a day, so anywhere from 200-300 pages is pretty doable for me.

A book every three or four days...

English is not my native language, but I see a difference between CAN YOU READ and DO YOU READ. Quite a huge one, I'd say...

Razvan wrote: "English is not my native language, but I see a difference between CAN YOU READ and DO YOU READ. Quite a huge one, I'd say..."

I agree and noticed this too as I read for pleasure these days.

I can read 800-900 without getting tired (and remembering like 80% if it s non-fiction - 90% if it s fiction), but these days I don t make time for reading at all

That really depends on the book I'm reading, with some I can only get around 50 pages because it's just too intense and with other I'll read a 300 pages in one sitting

I know I can read at least 800 pages in a day, (since once I read a whole 800 pages book in a day). But if I take time into account, I think I have time to read 200-300 pages a day

For me it’s around 400-500 on days when im super interested in the book and have enough time to binge read. Other days it’s from 100-300 or 300-400💗🫶

I try to savor a good book when I find one so I read more slowly. A friend once accused me of speed reading but that is simply not true. These days I read strictly for pleasure.

Considering I read Midnight Sun today which is an 800 page book, I’m going to go with that…

📚 Alana (professional book nerd)(semi-hiatus~school) wrote: "Considering I read Midnight Sun today which is an 800 page book, I’m going to go with that…"

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Congratulations as I could never read 800 pages in one day!

I kind of "read" a lot. I listen to audiobooks during my morning exercise where I alternate between walking and riding. I can listen to 75-100pgs in one morning walk/ride.

I also read for an hour or two at night before going to sleep and read 50-100pgs, depending on how tired I might be or how engrossed I am in the story. I will stay up way past my bedtime on a work night if I'm into one of those "can't go to sleep until I know what happens" books.

Don't even get me started on a lazy weekend afternoon. I can finish a really great shorter story (200-250pgs) in an afternoon.

533 today, but i may have read more.

Most days I hit about maybe 50ish, but weekend reading can put me from 100-200. I know it's on the short end of what I *can* do after I read almost all of Babel in a single day (Upwards of 500 pages) because I thought it had to be finished for school the next day 💀

When I was young, I read very fast and used to finish long books in a single day, but my eyes aren't what they used to be--and I get too tired too fast nowadays. I don't read for long stretches at a time anymore.

But I do think paying attention while reading is generally more important than reading speed. If I feel (or felt) that I have to slooooow down because I keep going back to re-read spots, then that's what I do.

I kind of changed how I read recently, like before I would just pick up a book and finish it within like 2 days, but then I changed it so that I would be reading multiple at a time, with a certain number of pages I had to read daily, in order to finish my goal of 10 books per month. For example, rn I have one book where I have to read 56 pages daily, another 12, another 10, another 3 chapters, and then the last one I just pick up when I feel like it and read whatever I can, as I'm already more than halfway through and am pretty sure I can finish by the end of the month. But that's just for this week. And then next week I'll finish one of the books, and move on to two more, and so on. Stretching the rest (3-4) til the end of the month.....ahem. I am not okay. hope that made sense! HOWEVER, there was one time where I binge read SOTR and finished it in 6 hours 😈