How to read a book in one day?

I’ve read lots of books in a day. Sit down and read. Easy.

It is totally possible but you will really have to log of Fluther first. ;)

Step 1: Sit down
Step 2: Open book
Step 3: Read
Step 4: Continue reading
Step 5: If you want to stop, don’t
Step 6: You’re done.

I do it all the time. Some of my classes require me to read 100+ pages a night. I had to train myself to do this.

As a child, I read many books in only one day, sometimes 1.5. I was a reclusive child, who knew the librarians by name and temperament and who all knew me. They always let me check out more than the average customer – 10 vs 4.

Nowadays, I only have time to read 1 a week.

I could read a book in one minute.Genius Ideas by Paris Hilton.An absorbing eye opener for all sixty fun filled seconds.

As each of the later Harry Potter volumes came out, we heard plenty of stories about people who read them straight through in 24 hours or less.

Really it depends on the length of the book. Other factors are the level of writing (how dense or simple), your own reading fluency, and the degree of comprehension you’re trying to sustain. Some practiced readers are very fast, even without learning speed-reading techniques. Others, like me, read fairly slowly. I rush only when I have a deadline. (If a book isn’t worth a slow, thoughtful read of every word, I won’t bother with it.)

Why don’t you give it a try and find out what you can do?

I have to read the equivalent of 5 or 6 books a week for school. If you need to do it, you just do it.

I can finish a typical length book in 5–6 hours. Some people read faster than I do. You don’t want to skim so fast you don’t retain anything. There should be a comfortable pace where you enjoy the story and understand what is going on. I can see it like a movie in my head. I get very absorbed and often, if it is a lazy Sunday, I just finish the whole book. Some days with work and other responsibilities it is hard to fit 5 hours for reading in one sit, and then it will take me two days. Don’t read so fast that you don’t understand and savor the story. Read at your natural pace.

The last book I read (alright, it was a 600 page textbook) took me around 24 hours to read in 2 weeks >_<. I tend to go over things really slowly, and don’t turn the page until I took everything in though. I think reading novels are slightly different since you just form a narrative in my head. I have never read a book in a single day though. The most I probably spent reading in a day was when the last 4 harry potters came out and I spent 3–4 hours a day on them.

As @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard said, just do it. Remove all distractions and plow through it. These are books that you normally need for some academic purpose. I can usually blast through a book of almost any size in less than * hours. If the book seems worthwhile, I’ll re-read it at a more leisurely pace later on. This is a skill you will have to acquire for college level work. In grad school you may be faced with ten such books in a week.

I can pretty much read a short to medium length novel a day. Sit down, read, read more, read some more, done.

The more you read, the faster it gets.

If its a good book, its not a problem. so interesting you cant put it down.

I don’t do it as often as I used to any more, but still, once in awhile when a book really grips me (and I have no competing demands for my time—and the dorg doesn’t mind going hungry for awhile), it’s no trick, really. You just have to wake up early, stay up, and… read.

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With academic reading you often have to just slog through it and try to note the key points. I’m convinced that some profs do this as a form of hazing ritual.

I can easily read a good sized book (300–500 pages) within a couple of hours, in one sitting. If it’s a good, interesting book, just sit down somewhere and read, chances are, you won’t even realize how much you’re reading. I tend to most of my reading at night, and I can easily finish a book at once if it is interesting and captivating.

Sit down, read and stop for nothing. I’ve done it before. Each of the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Of course, now that isn’t impressive, but as a fourth grader? That was intense.

The best way to read a book is forcefully, ecstatically, in a single sitting.

The thinking comes later.

Not all books allow for this.

If you don’t have kids, a job or sleep deprivation it’s a cinch

The dry-as-dust textbooks are a bitch, especially if authored by your professor.

I don’t see this as an activity I would aspire to, but I have done on many occasions when I start a really good book and don’t want to stop. I just read and read, and don’t eat or anything else, unless I can take the book with me.

I have done it quite a few times. Not planning to, but said books were page turners. Then I had kids lol. I actually stopped reading for 4 years when they we’re really little.

I’ve done it quite a few time, but I love reading and loved the books I read. The key is to like the book you’re reading.

Unfortunately, lately because of schoolwork, I haven’t done as much pleasure reading as I would like.

start early

yeah I did it before. It’s soo fun but I don’t think I could do it if it is more than 220 pgs. I usually wake up early get a good breakfast, start reading around 10 am and finish around 7:30 to 8:00 with about 3 30 min. breaks in between

Speed reading?

@Bluefreedom that works too but only it depends on why you are reading it. Speed reading is good for gleaning some facts, or reading it just to say you read a book ;)

Something I have noticed and I’m not sure why exactly, since I’ve been reading exclusively on my Amazon Kindle these days, I seem to get through books quicker than when I read them the old fashioned way.