How many pages do you read a day?

[EC2]

I've just noticed this cropping up in the What are you Reading Thread, so I thought I'd post a thread starter of its own.

I reckon 50 pages on a low day, 70 on average and 100 if I'm going for it. Plus around 20 pages of research reading on top of what I read in snatches as necessary during the day while working.

[Leyland]

If I have the whole day to indulge myself, I'll read a 600+ page book non-stop within 10 or 12 hours, or maybe less depending on how much brain power is required. If I'm reading during the week for most of the evening, then I'll read probably approximately 200-250 pages.

I read fast, but retain a lot of detail and rarely have to look back.

[Misfit]

Weekdays between 25 - 50 depending on how tired the mind is and how much attention the book requires. Weekends, I can blow through a 500 page book pretty easily, but then the check book doesn't get balanced nor much of anything else either. Good thing I don't have kids :o:o

[chuck]

Leyland....Impressive.....I read fast, but not that fast; also....I find as I'm getting older my retention is slipping(too many Dead concerts) and I found myself lately skimming some dialogue when the book is dragging a bit....Old habit from college days....Currently reading a time slip novel by Barbara Erskine "Kingdom of Shadows" struggling to stay interested...my first time slip novel and maybe my last.....

[JMJacobsen]

At home, it varies inversely with the neediness of the kids. :D (Just kidding, don't call CPS on me here!)

When I'm home, I'll average about 100 pages a day -- usually after the kids are in bed I'll read till midnight or later.

When I'm at work, double that, easily. Now before someone gets on me for reading at work, bear in mind that I work for an airline and am on the road 4-5 days at a time. That's a LOT of time in hotel rooms, just me and my books! If I'm leaving on a 4 day trip, I'll take a minimum of two books with me. Thank goodness for airport bookstores (if you ever want a rundown of the best bookstores in various airports around the world, give me a shout) if I run out.

[LCW]

Oh gosh, it really vaires. On weekdays there are times when I can't read anything at all, then I'll stay up really late (like last night) and read 200+ pages. On weekends I can usually read 200-300 pages a day. Although the last few weeks I haven't gotten much reading done at all, for me it's easier to say that I average a book a week rather than figure out how much I read each day.

I also have to say that I'm so shocked by how much some of you are managing to read. You all must be speed readers or something! 10, 15, even 20 books in a month!! Amazing! How do you all do it?? :)

[SonjaMarie]

It just depends.

I just read 50 pages today to finish the book I was reading and I will read more in another book I'm reading and may start a 3rd and 4th one off, so today could be over 100+.

Somedays it's more, somedays it's less, I guess it all depends on how many books I'm reading at the same time or how deeply involved I'm into the book and how fast the book goes.

SM

[diamondlil]

I read between 100=150 pages each way on my commute each day, so usually around 200-300 pages on the train trips.

Other than that it really depends on a lot of factors. I do read at night. Sometimes it could be a couple of hundred pages, other times just reading 5 is a struggle. It depends on how interesting the book is, how tired I am, how late it is when I start reading etc etc.

[Vanessa]

Between 50 and 100 pages during the week, maybe more at the weekend depending upon what I'm doing. If I read any more, my husband would be issuing me with divorce papers. LOL.

[Telynor]

It depends. If it's something heavy and scholarly, I can get about 50 or so pages in a day, giving it an hour or two. Something light, I can easily devour a book a day. And then there's everything in between those two extremes. I've always been like that, even as a kid -- I was stuck in bed for a time, and reading was the only distraction available to me.

[Divia]

I think it all depends on how much is going on around me. Sometimes I cant read more than 20, but I try to read 50 a day. But then there was the HEretic Queen and I read that in 2 days. It all depends.

[Alaric]

Depends on what I'm reading, how much time I've got and how tired I might be. So I would probably read anywhere between 30-80 pages a day in a normal week, far less if I've got assignments to write. But if I've got nothing to do and lots of time to kill it's easy to go over 100 pages or more and not realise.

[pat]

If I am able to read a breakfast I can read about 20+ pages, then I read in bed at night another 20+ pages. Any more is a bonus! My problem is my eyes get tired, hence reading first thing when they are fresh! If I read in bed at night I have to put on stronger glasses!

[Susan]

During the school year, I'm lucky if I can read 10 pages a day. Of course, during the summer I can read more. I'd really like to finish Lady Macbeth right after I post this, but school work calls. I am teaching 8th grade language arts literacy this year and it is new for me, so that means all new lesson plans. Today I'll be working on plans for the play The Miracle Worker.

[Carine]

For me it depends on several things : how tired I am, how good the book is, how much housework I still have to do ...
So I'd say somewhere between 20 and 100 pages a day, sometimes more on a Sunday afternoon for instance.

[Ash]

During the school year, I'm lucky if I can read 10 pages a day. Of course, during the summer I can read more. I'd really like to finish Lady Macbeth right after I post this, but school work calls. I am teaching 8th grade language arts literacy this year and it is new for me, so that means all new lesson plans. Today I'll be working on plans for the play The Miracle Worker.

Oh, I so hear you. I can easily go through a 300 page book in one day during the summer. Once school starts, those days are gone. I can get through the same book in about two weeks (but I do love my job so I can't complain, too much!)

[michellemoran]

Between 20 and 100 as well. It depends on how much I'm writing that day also and whether my brain is tired!

[Madeleine]

On a normal day, probably between 20-30. However on the odd occasion I'm on holiday, or have a long train journey or flight, I could probably get through about 100 a day, but that's a rarity.

[nona]

I would like to say I read a 100 or so a day but reality is I have a very chaotic life so I snatch bits and pieces here and there, now at night depending and when I sit down and read I usually get 20-30 pages in before I cannot see straight and have to put the book down.

[JaneConsumer]

It varies for me too. What am I reading - is it for work or pleasure? What day of the week? How interested am I or how much do I need to retain?

And what does "reading" mean? For work-related research, I may have to absorb hundreds of pages in a day. Certainly, I don't read them with the care I would take if I needed to retain the information for longer than a day or two.

Some books I like to skim for pleasure. I "read" them well enough to comprehend the plot and get what I want out of them. But I can go through a 500-page book in about 3 hours using this method. I won't, of course, pick up every intricate detail.

If I'm studying a subject, I may read one chapter a day. If I'm reading a complex and interesting plot, such as the one in An Instance of the Fingerpost (a novel of about 700 pages), it might take me 2 weeks to finish it.

[leehow]

We have two young children so i do not read as much as i used to,so between 20-60 pages a day.

[Carla]

Anything from 0 to 100 depending on work.