A Quest to Read a Book a Day for 365 Days

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregion/12towns.html

by yarapavan • 17 years ago

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newsdog• 17 years ago

Dude, you're gonna hurt yourself. I say this as a lord high master of the reading arts crafts and sciences. Don't do it.

nirmal2• 17 years ago

She's on day 350. I don't think she's going to stop now.

buckler• 17 years ago

Dude, asking out of curiosity, could you elaborate on your experience?

Did your health literally get worse? Did you miss out on a lot occasions/opportunities during the time you read heavily? Was it too much of an information overload than one could handle?

Personally, I'm mainly curious about how another individual's brain reacts when dealing with intake of such huge quantity of data.

ovi256• 17 years ago

I think his health is ok. I'm worried about your sense of humour though.

tetha• 17 years ago

You have to take this with a grain of salt: Those are fiction books. I suspected something like this when I read the title, and remembered a professor showing us 3 books and saing 'In each of these books, I was stuck on a chapter for around a week'.

nirmal2• 17 years ago

Her website: http://www.readallday.org/

zandorg• 17 years ago

Me and a friend once vowed to write 'festive' articles for an online magazine we wrote. In the '25 days of christmas', we'd each write an article every other day. It was pretty intense - though we managed it - and we swore never to attempt it again.

As for reading, when I was 14 I could read 3 books a week (I used to read while I was walking to school, literally!), now I can manage 1 a week at best.

smiler• 17 years ago

Incredibly, she hasn't monetised her site and hasn't put amazon affiliate links for every book on there

louislouis• 17 years ago

She's probably reading up on it.

yesimahuman• 17 years ago

I've always been amazed at people who can read books very quickly. By comparison, I'm a slow reader, and I find myself reading paragraphs over and over since I rush it a bit.

ComputerGuru• 17 years ago

I did it for maybe two weeks during a summer back when I was 14... Very gratifying experience, it's sort of like going to the theatre every night, except it doesn't get boring.

Now I'm lucky if I read a book a week, sometimes even a month, with the amount of work I have all these years later. But I still remember that stretch where Wheaton Public Library was my best friend and a little smile comes to my face.

Of course, ask me if I can remember the plot of any of those books, even in the most general of terms, and I'll be instantly stumped. Even re-reading them, sometimes I'm not sure if I ever read that book before. Apparently, the brain's simply overloaded with info and just commits everything to temporary short term memory, being unable to store it all for future reference.

billybob• 17 years ago

Yeah, I could do a lot of fun things if I didn't have to work.

pavel_lishin• 17 years ago

I could read a lot of books if I didn't care about retaining any of the knowledge.

A Quest to Read a Book a Day for 365 Days

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