![]() ![]() How about all those emails, texts and LinkedIn discussions (never mind any active engagement with the authors). That brings the daily total to 98 minutes. Out of necessity (or masochism), some even might feel the need to consult a fortifying textbook or How-To guide, so we'll round up the whole book load to 15 minutes a day. At 300 wpm, that comes to another 11 minutes a day. Continuing the exercise, assume each book contains 100,000 words ( a reasonable estimate), and the goal is to read one book a month. So far we’ve chewed up nearly an hour and a half every day and we haven’t even mentioned books-be it Michael Lewis’ latest financial best seller, the biography of a famous entrepreneur, the random novel (to keep up at cocktail parties), or whatever else happens to be on tap. Applying the ratios above, the total reading time over the course of a month comes to 50 minutes a day. Say the number is more like five, and each comes out once a week. But super-successful types (and those who aspire to be like them) don’t read just one publication. At 300 words a minute, you’ll spend 75 minutes plowing through one magazine. Say each publication is 100 pages long, the ratio of advertising to editorial pages is 50/50, and you think just half of those pages (25) are worth reading. ![]() Each issue typically runs between 60 and 150 pages. Consider that one page of text in a typical weekly or bimonthly news-and-analysis-style publication ( Forbes, The New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, etc.) contains roughly 900 words. Let’s look at magazines (yes, many people still read them). (Newspaper stories tend to run longer, blog posts shorter.) At 300 words per minute (the average-adult speed), you’ll spend 33 minutes a day, including weekends, on that part of your regimen.īut we’re just getting warmed up. Say you read 20 articles a day, each an average 500 words long. ![]() I'm sad to report that, for most of us, the words are winning. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.To put those rates in meaningful context, I applied them to the kind of serious reading regimen favored by the super-successful set. Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here. The problem with reading on phones or watching videos is that I can’t read if there is no internet for some time,” said Kiara to NDTV. “Reading from books is extremely enjoyable. Kiara often treads books that are meant for older children, but she says she loves reading books because of colourful pictures and how words are written so big on them! A few of her favourite reads are Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Shooting Star. The US-born child has inherited the reading habit from her grandfather, who would take deep interest to listen to Kiara’s storytelling skills over calls. Speaking to NDTV, the five-year-old’s parents have said that Kiara has read over 200 books in the past year and when she runs out of new books, she likes to re-read the old ones. ![]() Kiara’s love and passion for reading were first noted by one of her teachers at a school in Abu Dhabi that she had attended before it shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Asia Book of Records has stated that Kiara “set a record for reading a maximum number of books nonstop” while the World Book of Records in London certified the ‘child prodigy’ for “for having specific ability to read non-stop 36 books in 105 minutes at the age of 4 years on 13th February.” Kiara Kaur, born to Chennai-based parents, currently resides in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and has entered the World Book of Records in London and Asia Book of Records. A five-year-old Indian-American girl set two records for reading 36 books continuously for 105 minutes. ![]()
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