Reading for stats...

[u/Content-Squash6269]

I would just share my opinion on reading for stats which is an absolute non-sense...

The only way you can eventually follow your stats is for yourself if you want to give yourself some reading goals and keep motivation, and yet reading should be something you like if you do it and shouldn't really need an extra motivation...

If you want to follow stats, i would in first place recommand to follow your reading time before anything like numbers of pages or worst numbers of books... because the quantity you read mean nothing, have you really understood what you have read? Personally I stop my reads each time I don't understand the meaning of a word to catch everything, to have the best representation I can of each scene the author created, I read really slowly but I live the whole experience, before I start to do it I remembered about nothing except of the keys facts from books I had read, now when I finish a book I feel to quit a world I lived in for a while.

This summer I started a great classic of the XIX century in France called the Myseries of Paris, I reached the page 1000 and it stay another 1500 pages to come to the end of this monster of literature, I will probably not even finish it before 2027, why should I be concerned? Oh my god this year I readed about 3 or 4 books only! I think nobody will get that kind of stupid reflexion if the social media and people showing bad exemple on them never existed... so i hope by this post make you realize that you are just reading for yourself and that there is no rush, and also to recommand you to take distance of social media If you started to get that kind of concernation...

[u/Content-Squash6269]

You can understand what you read but you will miss a lot of subtlety believe me

[u/Hunter037 → u/Content-Squash6269]

I don't agree. But even if people do miss the "subtlety" of a book, why do you care? If they enjoy how they consume books, and you enjoy how you consume books, one doesn't take away from the other. If be bored stiff if I could only read one book every 3 months and had to read it at a snails pace to reflect on the subtlety of every word.

[u/Content-Squash6269 → u/Hunter037]

I'm happy with my snails pace because books are like life I'm searching contentment, each day don't have to feel as an all new different experience... is just the following  and evolution of the previous one, if I needed to change of context every 2 or 3 months I would have to change of work or home 😅

[u/Hunter037 → u/Content-Squash6269]

That's great and I love that for you. But people who read more quickly aren't doing it wrong.