How To Read Books More Efficiently By Following These Few Incredibly Simple Steps
A guide to read faster, memorize more, and improve your knowledge effectiveness by fooling your brain
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11 min readOct 28, 2020
The amount of time people are reading books has doubled in the UK since the lockdown. E-books sales in the US increased by about 40%, and e-book loans leaped 53% since the start of the pandemic.
The search for “reading list 2020” gives already 26'700 results, compared to only 18'000 for the year 2019, which corresponds to an increase of nearly 50%.
I did not sum up the numbers of recommended books on all the bestseller lists. But I would guess, if every category is considered, these would be several hundred.
Honestly, I feel overwhelmed by this inflation of booklists. How to read so many books?
Reading English silently allows us to read 238 words per minute.
That would result in
- 5 hours and 19 minutes for J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- 7 hours and 19 minutes for John Grisham, The Guardians
- 9 hours and 19 minutes for Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- 11 hours and 36…
