2011 in books

My reading is still fairly undisciplined. I am trying to get up earlier in the mornings to read before work, but it's challenging. Reading Gotham took at least six weeks whereas other books I blew through in a day. My goal is to get up to a book a week, we'll see how that goes :)

I almost never read until I got a kindle. Now I use the text-to-speech feature while I drive and get through a ~300 page book in 6-8 hours. Its wonderful.

Depends on the book and how fast you read. Most of my books were quick one-time reads, not that many mindbending or thoughtful books in the mix like the link contains. I think I read 30 minutes to an hour or so a day (while waiting for things like flights and people for dinner or at the supermarket checkout lane, before bed, at the gym) and this year I've read thirty thousand pages across 61 books (soon to be 62 if I can sit down to finish my current read, http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/2444699-jane). That's not counting magazines, blogs, RSS, HN, and technical books for work, just pure pleasure reading for me.

When your primary method of reading is via iPhone and it's always with you, there will always be opportunities to read. But in exchange, I don't do much of other hobbies. My TV watching has fallen significantly to only 3-4 shows at best and maybe one movie a week, for example.

I'm currently on a pretty carefree contract work lifestyle right now though, so YMMV. I can't imagine I'd be reading that much for fun if I had to worry about running a business or somesuch.