I read too much

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You saw the title. I believe that I read too much. 

[Bearer of all agonies he/him]

Who doesn’t?

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What I'm talking about pushes any boundary of any sense of reasonableness to well beyond breaking.

[Chasmgoat he/him]

What do you mean too much?

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I stayed up past 2:30 last night reading Oathbringer again.

I've gotten distracted by textbooks.

I find storming copyright pages interesting, for crying out loud!

[Chasmgoat he/him]

Just now, Enter a username said:

I stayed up past 2:30 last night reading Oathbringer again.

I've gotten distracted by textbooks.

I find storming copyright pages interesting, for crying out loud!

I think your problem is not that you read too much, but that you find too many things interesting. or something like that. It is impossible to read too much.

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If I keep reading the way I've been reading, it's going to be very unbeneficial to my health. If something starts getting unhealthy, then that's when it's too much.

Edited October 30, 2020 by Enter a username

[Hen she/her]

42 minutes ago, Enter a username said:

I stayed up past 2:30 last night reading Oathbringer again.

I've gotten distracted by textbooks.

I find storming copyright pages interesting, for crying out loud!

I do this to! Well, I get distracted by textbooks. One night my cousin (who’s a nurse) had a EKG reading manual laying out on the counter and I stayed up way to late reading it. It was just a boring manual, but I loved it. I also asked for MCAT books for my birthday a couple years ago which I’m reading now. 

Edited October 30, 2020 by Hentient

[Bearer of all agonies he/him]

1 hour ago, Chasmgoat said:

I think your problem is not that you read too much, but that you find too many things interesting. or something like that. It is impossible to read too much.

Hehe. True, true. 

[FriarFritz]

I totally relate to getting distracted by textbooks. Sometimes for a class I've just read the whole textbook the first night, so that I can ignore it the rest of the class. Because I also have uncanny retention of information.

[revelryintheart she/her]

3 hours ago, FriarFritz said:

I totally relate to getting distracted by textbooks. Sometimes for a class I've just read the whole textbook the first night, so that I can ignore it the rest of the class. Because I also have uncanny retention of information.

Wow I wish. I despise textbooks. Even if I find the subject or material interesting, I can't get into them. Or sometimes I will find parts of the textbook interesting and read those instead of the parts I'm supposed to read.

[Condensation she/her]

I might read too much, but I don't especially care.

[Flyingbooks]

I also definitely read too much. If there's something to read in a random room, then I will read it. Once I start reading anything remotely interesting, it's hard to put it down until I finish it, so normal books are like sanderlanches for me, while actuall sanderlanches are like ultra-mega-sanderlanches instead.

[Condensation she/her]

I have changed my opinion and now take offense at the title.

[Snakenaps she/her]

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

That being said, which is more beneficial: grinding for hours on a video game, or reading a million books?

"'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,' said Jojen. 'The man who never reads lives only one.'" ~ George R.R. Martin, A Dance of Dragons

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ~Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

[Condensation she/her]

"I cannot live without books." -Thomas Jefferson

[theTruthshaper]

On 10/30/2020 at 11:16 PM, Enter a username said:

I stayed up past 2:30 last night reading Oathbringer again.

I've gotten distracted by textbooks.

I find storming copyright pages interesting, for crying out loud!

I once missed my bus 'cause I was reading my textbook.

I love reading textbooks as long it isn't required reading.

Edited November 27, 2020 by Ookla of Truthshapers

[Condensation she/her]

13 hours ago, Ookla of Truthshapers said:

I once missed my bus 'cause I was reading my textbook.

I love reading textbooks as long it isn't required reading.

I know, right? It can actually be interesting as long as you're not being forced.

[FriarFritz]

On 11/26/2020 at 8:27 PM, Snakenaps said:

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

That being said, which is more beneficial: grinding for hours on a video game, or reading a million books?

"'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,' said Jojen. 'The man who never reads lives only one.'" ~ George R.R. Martin, A Dance of Dragons

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ~Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

I mean, if you grind enough on a video game, you could go professional. I doubt there's a demand for professional readers. 

[Condensation she/her]

16 minutes ago, Ookla the Monk said:

I mean, if you grind enough on a video game, you could go professional. I doubt there's a demand for professional readers. 

What do you call an editor? A professional reader(with editing on the side).