Follow us. I read 48 books last year. I think it was a bit freakish too, given I usually average around Judging a reader simply by number of books read is pointless: it says nothing about how long the books in question were, or how you engaged with them. Yet working out how to read more is a perpetual goal for many of us, from overly hardcore types like myself to lapsed readers who feel a stinging shame when they behold their book-free bedside tables. Not quite.
But there are effective ways to read more and more attentively , and to demolish the anxiety that often surrounds big, dense texts. He swears by noise-cancelling headphones , which help him to turn bits of dead time into reading opportunities. Oscar Almonte-Espinal, a Philadelphia library worker and books Instagrammer , is trying to get out of a reading slump. His idea of a reading slump is, it should be said, reading 60 books in rather than in Still β changing jobs had thrown his routine out of whack.
Many of us including me are not morning people, or have obligations β families, work and the rest β that make such a habit impossible. The point is to find the best place in your day or week to install reading time as a non-negotiable, just as you might with going to the gym. Do you tend to do nothing better with your Sunday afternoons than fretfully reload Instagram while waiting for Monday to descend?
Or read on your lunch break, or while commuting. You could even get a housemate or family member to hide it, if your Instagram withdrawal symptoms are particularly acute. Another idea, says book YouTuber Eric Karl Anderson book count: , is to switch to audiobooks, especially when a title is driven by plot rather than prose.
So at the beginning of , I decided to finally start scrawling on the beautiful blue pages of a Smythson notebook my parents had bought me years earlier.
