Booking It

Does Jack Edwards actually read all the posts he posts about?

The questioner meant โ€œbooksโ€ for the first instance of โ€œposts.โ€ I donโ€™t really know who Jack Edwards is, but I used to read something like 1,500-2,000 books a year at one point. I was often finishing 3-4 books a day โ€” and I read seven books in a single day one time. Admittedly they were short works, but weโ€™re talking about full-on adult novels and non-fiction here, not YA or kidโ€™s books.

You can read a whole fucking lot of books when you read fast, donโ€™t sleep much, and donโ€™t do much else. For a long time I was reading for 16-18 hours a day every day. Iโ€™d read all day at school, ignoring schoolwork. Iโ€™d read on the bus. Iโ€™d read the moment I got home (in fact, I used to walk from the bus stop while still reading my book). And Iโ€™d read all night. Iโ€™d read all weekend. You get the idea.

So I find it perfectly plausible that someone who reads fast and does it as a job could read 200+ books a year or whatever the claim is here. Seems pretty easy to me.

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