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> five books a month

How?

I'm a prolific reader but outside of short fiction I can manage maybe 4 a month.

I genuinely want to benchmark myself with fellow peers how on long they take to consume text book. I am not that into fiction or short fiction books - I generally loose interest.

How long would technical books take you to complete, say you have to read Effective Java 3rd Edition

I haven't read a technical book in a long time. I read "You Don't know JS," which is very very short, in about a week. I read "Cracking the Coding Interview" in 3 weeks.

As for non fiction, I read "Anarchist Communism" (fairly short) in a week, "Delivered from Distraction" in a month, "Masters of Doom" in about 2 weeks.

It depends on my interest more than anything. I obliterated the entire Robin Hobb "Assassin's" series, 12 books, in just about two months.

Pretty easily doable by reading multiple books at the same time! Averages out to ~50 pages a day.

The trick is to always keep the book queue filled, so long books that take a while coexist for a while with a number of shorter length ones

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