I’m not familiar with the research but I will say that conclusion “feels” right to me.

Have they found a modern day metric that we should all be hunting in our quest for reading health? A literary equivalent to the daily 10,000 steps?

Maybe 10,000 words!

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JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is also a weird, robust mortality relationship where book readers live longer than periodical readers "regardless of gender, health, wealth, or education" [1]. In those studies, the threshold was 30 minutes of book reading a day.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5105607/

	▲	hx8 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		While this is just a rule of thumb, I consider moderate exercise, reading, and socializing to be roughly equivalent in positive health benefits. I try to get a little bit of each every day, and then try to have longer sessions of each once or twice a week.

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sowbug an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Ten thousand books in an 80-year lifetime would mean finishing one book every three days. That's aggressive, but entirely achievable.