Submitted by Tiredworker27 t3_104xmvk in books
A lot of people here at least claim that they read 200+ or even 300+ books a year "easily" and that they have a normal life with a full time job - friends - family etc How the hell do you do it?
If you are unemployed or retired then 200+ books a year is easy. But while working full time?
A full time job alone takes all your time between 6 AM and 5 PM (with waking up + getting ready + comuting) then you have 5 hours a day befor you go to sleep - in which you want to relax - eat something - cook - do groceries - house work etc Then there are other hobbies like gaming - going to the gym - listening to music ect ect
And then theres Family + Friends. Even if you have just a small family and just a few friends - going out and meeting them "costs" half a day. Do you have jobs where you can read all day or how do you do it? I suspect most are either a litte exaggerating - counting really short stuff as a "book" or are outright lying.
EDIT: Because some people claim that Childrens Stories - Mangas and Graphic Novels are books - If you think so then every journal article - newspaper - magazine is also a book. A book begins at a certain lenght. Just because you read a childrens story in book form with perhaps 500 words in it - doesnt mean that you read a book. Otherwise everyone who just read the newspaper could claim he/she just read a book. Its absurd.