How Long Would it Take You to Read a Book

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300 pages sounds like it would be too long for me to ever muster up the commitment to try to read it. It could take me a very long time and I'd be reluctant to invest a lot of time into something that might not be very useful to me. I don't like reading novels alone, it always seems like an admission of being isolated, even though it doesn't really have to be that. I'm much happier reading shorter things, especially factual things where I can just look up what I'm interested in and then go and do something else with the new knowledge. But I do read novels to my wife quite a lot. That feels a lot more social and I get the chance to develop my "reading aloud" skills. She's perfectly able to read the books for herself but it seems more sociable to read them to her. And when I read aloud, I focus on it better. I have some bad memories of trying to read books by myself. My attention would keep flying away and it was very frustrating. It made me think I had something wrong with me, and when it was a requirement for school, I'd get anxious about being in trouble for not having done it properly.

Having said all that, there have been times when I've found myself reading a whole book with very little trouble. It seems to be a requirement that I'm not particularly aiming to read it all - it more happens as an unexpected by-product of things. I also read Lord Of The Rings at work, and that's a very long book. But there was nothing else to do for weeks and I didn't dare go home, so I felt it was better than wasting my time completely. I did feel very impatient with some of it and wanted Tolkien to get on with the plot a bit quicker. And the chapter about Tom Bombadil made no sense to me at all. And some of the detailed pageantry seemed pretty obscure and hard to relate to, so I struggled with that. Problem with me is that I never dare to skip anything because I always expect I'll go and skip something I'll need to know later on, so I try to hang onto every word, and it gets tedious.

^^^i'm glad you do that for your wife

^ I'd be glad if people read to each other more often. There are lots of benefits to it.

^^^have you ever recorded a book on tape for somebody?

Yes I did that for my son when he was a child. It was just a part of a book, while he was somewhere else for a few days.

that was kind i am thinking that for your S.O., if you recorded the books you read for her now, if in the event you matriculate into the great beyond before she does, she would welcome having the surviving specimen of your voice reading books to her as back in the day.

I don't read books at all since a few years ago. So 300 pages wouldn't happen. If they forced me to read such a book at work (just read, no comments afterwards) I would do it in a day so it's over and I could do other things.

I can totally relate to the guys that don't read much. For most of my life, I had a tough time focusing enough to read or write for any amount of time.

I have a distant memory of being incredibly sad because I was in an old Baltimore library and discovered this quiet section full of dusty tomes with aliens, spaceships, and of course girls on the covers, but I was too hyper to sit down and work through them.

A few years ago, I began taking Strattera and this antipsychotic Abilify...and my brain lost 25% of its wildness. So now I can torture myself through a book. So it's time to play catch up, especially since the combination of getting SSI and this horrible Pandemic (or whatever it is) have liberated hug blocks of time.

If you have any suggestions for must read tomes, they would be appreciated!

Read my first book in grade 6. Faked all those book reports. I just couldn’t focus. I mean I couldn’t focus on anything and I suppose I was able to just wing it. I wish I had an earlier start.

I read about 3 hours a day. I honestly can’t handle movies and tv. It just takes practice. I started first just reading words. Out loud. I think most will find reading much less prone to overstimulating your head.

I’m 39 now.

I think reading is much more autism friendly than other forms of stimulation.

you might wanna consider reading "you cannot die" by dr. ian stephenson. as an alternate, "return from tomorrow" by dr. george ritchie. a 2nd alternate would be "vistas of infinity" by jurgen ziewe.

Thank You! I will try to hunt down said books...I could use a little S and F in my life

I once finished a three-novel series in about 36 hours. Another time, I read a chapter a day for a month to read one book. This week, I finished reading a book after about a year, and it was the first book I have finished in years. The information supply is so overwhelming now that my attention span is much shortened, and I have learned enough in my fields of interest that it is hard to find new, relevant information.