In middle school, you had free time to commit to hours of reading.
yeah, it’s not brain cells. it’s how many competing activities you can do at a given time. i used to read most when i rode public transit to school/work. now i’m working from home and there’s so much more i can do in the extra time and i’m not even mad i don’t get to reading any more.
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I read before bed every night, no exceptions. I can be hammered drunk and still get some chapters in. Might be a bit hazy on the next read, back track a couple of pages, but I get right back in the game.
I’ll binge a novel whenever I actually have an entire day free
I have felt the same in recent years, but then I started listening to audiobooks while driving/commuting/cleaning and damn, I feel like I have unlocked a super power.
I started last month, and have experienced the following books in their unabridged forms:
H. G. Wells - The time machine
H. G. Wells - The invisible man
H. G. Wells - The war of the worlds
Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odessy
Isaac Assimov - I, Robot
Jules Verne - The journey to the center of the earthAs you can see, I started with classic sci fi, and it has been great!
Shout out to Mr. Miller for punishing me for reading in class while I was in Middle School, really ground that negative reinforcement in while I was young and impressionable
Heh, I distinctly remember having the dubious honor of having the most detentions (sitting out from recess) in first grade because I’d be reading a book underneath my desk as the teacher was lecturing.
Today every child in America has a Mr. Miller ensuring th4y dont enjoy things.
Stephen?
That’s the one!
tbf there’s an art in summarizing a complex thought in a short piece of text. you could think of it as “enrichment”
She gave up on herself, that’s it. I started reading recently and I HATED reading for my whole life. It’s enjoyable as you mature and start to use your brain more.
Most people do not believe in themselves and do not trust themselves to do anything new or to retry something they didn’t like before. It’s a shame cause it hurts you for your entire life.
Don’t be like the post, improve yourself and find more hobbies.
Oh wow, 3-4 books in the whole of middle school.
What a peak.
I’m thinking she meant at the same time. I know I juggled a few books at once while in school, and I’m not counting textbooks.
It’s possible, but unlikely considering… America.
I started reading again, it really doesn’t take much effort. My husband and I carve out around an hour or so of reading time before bed. Been reading Stephen Baxter novels and I forgot how much fun reading is.
I’m a big fan of Sci-Fi so if anyone has some recommendations, gimme some.
Problem is when I start reading and like the book I want to binge it, I was never a “read one hour each night” kinda guy but more like “read for 48hrs straight, forget to eat or sleep”.
Some recommendations:
- Asimov…
- Andy Weir novels
- Roger Zelazny chronicles of amber
- Douglas Adam
- Adrian Tchaikovsky children of times
what impact have you found it has on your sleep / life?
My intellectual decline correlated with game manuals; from 150 pages on the history of war to 15 random characters in an otherwise empty box.
You have to actively make the choice to read books. It doesn’t just happen. I did several years ago after not reading much of anything for many years, and I’m closing in on 20,000 pages read this year.
Not me. I can’t make the choice not to read. Been devouring fiction for 45-years. If I spend the night elsewhere and forget my tablet (cheap e-reader), I get a little panicky. Yes, even sleeping with a new lover the first time. “Aw hell! Where’s my book?! How am I supposed to sleep?!”
At our camp I have a shitty tablet I can charge up if I forget to bring one. It’s buried under the collapsed tent, but it’s there!
u peaked at 12
The ‘u’ confirms it.
Books are just an outdated form of media.
Every other type of media is more entertaining and engaging to most people.
It’s just unfortunate that the majority of information is only recorded in text.
But I have been enjoying how many random video essays there are now.
I don’t read paper books anymore, but I have 1,000 epubs to read on my crappy $25 tablet.
In any case, you’re comparing apples and oranges. I look reading The Expanse as much as I love watching the show. But nonetheless, they’re very different forms of stimulation.
Speaking of stimulation, reading is clearly better for your brain. It’s like exercise. What you do in your youth determines what you will be able to do in your old age.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading in my spare time recently using locally hosted open source text to speech models while doing chores. If not for textbyo speech I probably wouldn’t have time to read these books, and if not for the fact that it’s locally hosted I’d probably be on a watchlist for reading them too.
Books are my favorite form of media. They seem to be the most complete projections of their author’s thoughts. In more expensive media there are many different influences that direct the media, while with a lot of books you can get away with just one author and one editor. It’s more pure and clear in that way. It’s also much easier for me to “get” books.
I do enjoy movies and television, but it’s a very different enjoyment. I can see how someone can prefer them, but I don’t. As for engagement and entertainment, I apparently have an average level of visual fantasy, and some novel scenes I have remembered for years. While reading I slowly stop reading words and start reading fully fleshed out scene, and my mind’s eye presents me with spectacle. It’s incredible and I love it.
