Comment by _bramses
1 day ago
I’m starting a book club!
- Sixty books a year (five books a month)
- Self Chosen Books (no forced reading)
- Two recorded Salon style meetings monthly
- Bespoke software for the group including: shared embedding graph of highlights and annotations, IRC chat with @ for members and books and authors, collective bookshelf
- Six members max
Learn more here if interested!
> 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
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