When I was living in Paris I had a 20 min ride from home to work each day. I picked up the habit to read during those 40 total minutes and I was going through books like I had never been able to, because while 40 min is not a lot, it’s about 150h per year. One easily underestimates the power of consistency.

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bitmasher9 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I read many books a year by reading for 20-30 minutes per night before sleeping. A habit with multiple benefits (winding down and reading or commuting and reading) is very powerful for getting the most value out of your time.

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bbkane 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Until the book gets really good and you have to keep reading past your bedtime to learn what happens (or maybe that's just me)

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druskacik 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not just you, I hear this often, but I am always suprised people can read for so long in bed. No matter how interesting a book is, I can rarely read more than 20-30 minutes before the urge to fall asleep becomes too strong.

But I can sometimes code until like 4AM. Weird.

	▲	sponnath 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Reading is usually more passive than coding. I'm often never sleepy if I'm actively coding something late at night but reading a book (no matter how engaging) or watching a tv show can very easily make me sleepy. That said, everyone's brains work very differently.

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jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To offer a counterargument: I would strongly recommend aspiring and avid readers to not make reading in bed your primary / only mode of reading. It will make your brain associate books with sleep and thus make you turn drowsy the moment you have turned a few pages.

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prinny_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also used to read my commute but stopped it after I finished "for whom the bell tolls". I was so moved that I ended up crying in the bus and I would have liked to experience that feeling in the privacy of my home rather in the morning bus with 9 hours still on the clock.

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theshrike79 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I commute to the office 1-3 times a week, it's about 30 minutes on the train + some walking.

I've gone through so many books it's crazy :)

With audiobooks I can start listening the second I step out of the door and stop while I take my jacket off in the office. With e-books I usually just read on the train.

Most books aren't that long, around 5 hours a week of reading just during your commutes is quite a bit.

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systems 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

how can you read in 20 minutes, for me 20 minutes is only good enough to stare out the windows and ... zip zip 20 minutes are gone

i need a couple of hours to do any technical reading

20 minutes, maybe, maybe .. good enough if i am reading fiction or something

	▲	scubbo 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> how can you read in 20 minutes > good enough if i am reading fiction or something Looks like you got there in the end.

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ipaddr 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For one year I read every free moment averaged a book every 3 days mostly biographies many on wrestling. The year I got an e-reader (alura tech). Stopped after the screen broke.

The book that stood out the most. Sugar Barons.