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s0rr0wskilltoday at 1:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

How much do you read weekly? This is an impressive amount of stuff


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ilveztoday at 5:18 AM

First the minimum time: - audiobooks while commuting (mostly walking to work). Even if it's like 30-40 minutes some day at most, it still adds up. - add to that lets say ~15 minutes each night before sleeping.

And on top of that: - sleepless nights, when you want to get back to sleep: 30 minutes - ... - just having a good series to grind through. - audiobooks during some manual labor (home restoration works for example).

So for me audiobooks + capability to read at night without disturbing others (dark mode + backlight on e-reader). And from that it adds up.

rhubarbtreetoday at 9:07 AM

This comment slightly terrifies me. My reading has dipped this year, but generally this is a small amount of reading for 12 months. I think the norm on reading quantity has shifted.

Is social media to blame? TikTok and meta videos are extremely addictive. I have perhaps the strongest willpower of anyone I know, and the only way I can avoid losing hours to them every day is to delete these apps from all devices, and have a separate browser on my Mac for them.

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