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!
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.
> five books a month
How?
I'm a prolific reader but outside of short fiction I can manage maybe 4 a month.