Catchup Titles Archive (Updated to March 2024)
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@sinnoaria said in Catch Up Titles (February - March 2019):
40 books a day
You may want to look cool but this is not humanly possible unless the "books" are extremely short. I guess you meant 4.
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@novurdim said in Catch Up Titles (February - March 2019):
You may want to look cool but this is not humanly possible unless the "books" are extremely short. I guess you meant 4.
No, I mean literally 40. You are sort of right though that it is impossible for me to read 40 digital books in a day. I'd say with digital, I'm closer to 10-20 right now. As digital technology improves though, it will go up.
Might seem odd, but I'd say if we were to take harry potter as an example, I can read an average of 1-3 books an hour. (I read slower at first and pick up speed the more I read). Assuming that Harry Potter's first book, the sorcerer's stone, is a single book (about 200 pages), I generally read about that much my first hour of uninterrupted reading. (1 book an hour to start). After a few hours, I end up reading about 2-3 books (using harry potter's first book as a 'book') an hour and by the end of the day, I'm reading 3 books an hour (again, using harry potter's first book as the method of defining a 'book'). I can potentially go past 40 if I skip sleep, but I can't process as fast if I'm tired.
I'd say I'm a bit high even among my more book loving friends, but even they can hit 20+ books a day (none of them actually sit down and read for 16 hours straight though, so I suspect that the faster ones can read more than me if they actually did). It is actually probably a little harder for me to read slowly. I can't even figure out how it is possible taking an entire week to read a single chapter of a book like some of my classmates did back in school. I'd say they are kind of lucky in the sense that they wouldn't have high book costs like I do (At least some years, I averaged 1k USD per month in books and manga costs. This year is looking to be on the low side with about 200-400 USD per month on average plus membership since I'm only buying during sales).
I mean, even with digital books, I can't read that slowly. How are you only reading 4 books a day? @_@ . 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep, Assuming you have an hour of transportation, you still have 6 hours to read... And I'm assuming you are talking about days off, which means 16 hours of reading time. 4 hours a book is way too long! You are missing out on way too many stories if you read that slowly. You need to speed up. A lot. Just think about all the great stories out there for you to read and it will definitely get you motivated to read faster.
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@lixaxy said in Catch Up Titles (February - March 2019):
@lex How are you able to read that much!? I'm only able to get through 3-4 books á month, at most...
Putting crazy people like sinnoaria aside...
Bluesteel Blasphemer is a total of 37 parts. Read two parts a day (each part isn’t that long) and you get through all four volumes in a bit more than two weeks.
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@lixaxy I have also read all those series (including Bluesteel) when they first started I kept up with all prepub releases and didn’t fall behind, and here we are today.
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@novurdim I am deleting your comment because your are insulting other users.
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@novurdim once again I will be deleting this one
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@rahul-balaggan okay, I'll just repeat that I have never once insulted him, not even near, it's very important for the protocol. My disagreement with his tone and methods was with all due respect.
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@lixaxy I can read between one and three volumes a day, depending on their length and on how much free time I have. Last month I read the entire Campione! series, 21 volumes, in about 3 weeks. Keep in mind that I tend to read quickly so it happens that I miss some details, but since there are so many things I want to read I can't do otherwise.
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@lixaxy said in Catch Up Titles (February - March 2019):
@lex How are you able to read that much!? I'm only able to get through 3-4 books á month, at most...
I can read a LN in 4-5 hours without skimming or speed reading techniques.
For many people the speed at which you can read a book increases over time as you read more books.
I've been reading Western fantasy and science fiction since I was 9-10, and as a kid I'd spend weekends working through a stack of books instead of playing sports or games or posting on social media (which did not exist). So my [ Reading ] skill has leveled up a bit :-)
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I’m excited to get back into outbreak company. Really liked the first volume but fell behind.
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any guesses on what this month's catchup will be? I'm hoping for some of the longer-running series that have recently had their manga adaptations licensed here, such as seirei gensouki, realist hero, infinite dendrogram, and elf bride.
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@yumenokage Seirei Gensouki is a good candidate. I don't think it's ever been on catchup yet? Realist was on catchup back on July 2018, and Infinite Dendrogram last catchup was in March 2018.
There are other new series that have never been on catchup like Seirei Gensouki though: Werwolf, Kokoro Connect, Amagi Brilliant Park, Elf Bride, Lazy Dungeon Master. I probably missed a few others, too.
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I'm going to toss out Brave Chronicle: The Ruinmaker, mainly because it's never been on catch up. Paying to Win in a VRMMO or My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World would be nice too.
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@paul-nebeling Brave Chronicle was on catchup a single time, that one time with the anniversary when all series were on catchup (if I recall right - I wasn't yet a member at the time).
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@terabyte I must have missed it or been too busy catching up on other series.
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Walking my Second Path in Life has never had a catchup ;)
