I mean I still read... Occasionally. A new series usually every few months. I'll go on a reading spree, and then suddenly forget how to read for a few months.
There needs to be some context. Three to four novels a day? Week? Month? Year? The last two are not really that impressive. The week is generally normal for avid readers. In a day would be quite impressive unless they were short books. I would consider a short book anything under 250 pages.
Well I don't know how reading became such an accomplishment nowadays, to me it's a dignified hobby. Sure it helps expanding your mind, imagination, dreams or understanding of some subjects. But that's not the only way to do that. You're not smart because you read and stupid because you don't. It's something you should do if you feel like it, you're not supposed to feel guilty about it.
I think the accomplishment is not the actual reading. I think the accomplishment is the foregoing of all the myriad distractions that are competing for your leisure hours. I became a voracious reader in my teens. I'd read on public transit, while waiting for appointments and in lines, before bed, on rainy days and while waiting for the few good shows 3 channels offered and during the commercials. Later on, I'd also read during breaks and meals at work. I read a lot and it was an easy choice.
Flash forward a few decades and VHS/DVDs, electronic gaming, channel shifting, HBO and its ilk, the Internet, PVRs, online gaming, smart phones, streaming and all the social media flavours, are all brand new competitors for your finite leisure time. I still read a lot but it's mostly short articles and posts. Now my books are mostly read in short increments while waiting to pick my wife up at the subway. So hats off to those of you can manage your time better than me.
@carbontech If I get your point right the accomplishment is only being more interested in reading than doing other stuff, and I agree with that. However I don't know if it's better time management, it's just different. What I mean is that you just seem to enjoy digital stuff more than books even though you still dig them.
In my case it's not time management, it's easy because I can't get lost in movies/shows/even memes the way it is with books_yet I'm not peaking anymore than the average person.
Flash forward a few decades and VHS/DVDs, electronic gaming, channel shifting, HBO and its ilk, the Internet, PVRs, online gaming, smart phones, streaming and all the social media flavours, are all brand new competitors for your finite leisure time. I still read a lot but it's mostly short articles and posts. Now my books are mostly read in short increments while waiting to pick my wife up at the subway. So hats off to those of you can manage your time better than me.
In my case it's not time management, it's easy because I can't get lost in movies/shows/even memes the way it is with books_yet I'm not peaking anymore than the average person.