My New Year’s resolution for the last several years was to read or listen to a book for an hour a day. So far so good. Most days listening is better for me though.
I work and have a very active 2 year old, so I only get to read at night before i fall asleep, so I read about a half hour, each night. Unless its a real page turner, then I read much longer than I should have! LOL
40-60 minutes when I’m on my exercise bike; sometimes an extra half-hour squeezed in somewhere else in my day (waiting at appts, before bed, etc). Saturday mornings offer me an hour or two before the rest of the house wakes up.
I read while eating breakfast and lunch; I read in the early evening and I read at bedtime. Probably 3-4 hours a day. Since my kids are now grown I have more free time.
It depends on the day, my work schedule, and my mood, but I don’t watch television, so my primary hobby is reading. I probably read at least 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes more. Sometimes less.
Since I have kids and a job, it varies considerably. Most days I try to end with reading in bed, so I usually get at least 15-30 minutes in. On the weekends and over the summer (I’m a teacher), I can get considerably more time in. It helps that my children also love reading, so we do a lot of quiet afternoons reading in the air conditioning after playing outside in the morning (we’re in Texas).
I aim for 3 but I often pick a day of the week where I read almost all day- some where between 5-8 hours depends on my kids, my health, and how good the book is
I am retired and read about three hours a day at night-if the book is boring or badly written about one-this does not happen often though and it is very seldom that I throw a book away-the books I do not want to read again I share with others or take them to Goodwill.
Several hours. 6 years ago I was diagnosed with a serious medical condition that has left me disabled and pretty much homebound. Reading has become a lifeline.
Usually about 2 hours audio books during mindless tasks like dishes, laundry, sweeping and while driving. And then another 2 hours +/- reading print books. Some days less. And if I can possibly squeeze it in, more… as much as I can squeeze in.
I aim for at least an hour, but there are times when it just doesn’t work out. Then there are the times I get so absorbed in a book, I forget all about sleep… or dishes…or eating… 🙂
It varies. I’m retired so can read all day if I am really into a book, but more often I read between chores, gardening, walking my dog, so an average of two to five hours.
I have two small kids, so I try to do an hour before bed, but it doesn’t always work out. I do audiobooks in stolen moments thoughout the day though, like when I’m doing dishes or waiting, and that way, I’m able to get about 3 hours a day.
I’m a bedtime reader—sometimes go to bed as early as 7:00 and read for several hours. I set my phone with a “time for sleep” alarm to remind me to stop reading at midnight, as I’ve been known, if the book is a real page-turner, to find myself still reading at sun-up! With my current stop-at-midnight schedule, I regularly read at least 3 hours each night. I start a new book every 2-3 days?
Since I got my kindle and found I can download books from our county library, I have been spending lots more time reading off and on all day long. Thankfully, I’m retired so I have time. I can’t really say how many hours I spend reading but I can tell you that I’ve been averaging a book every 2-3 days. Reading is one of the best activities ever!
Unfortunately only about an hour each day. I try in the evenings but doesn’t always work. I read about 30 minutes while I eat lunch and about 30 minutes before bed.
No set amount. I try to finish a book a week. Hammock season more, my favorite place to read ! I may need new eyes when my new little apartment is finished. I am putting one in my bedroom.
I’m a life long reader, I use to read when I first woke up and the before I went to sleep especially when my children were little now I read in the daytime. If I read in bed I either fall right to sleep or in the case of a really good book I read all night.
I can read a book a day if I read non-stop. Paperback and some hardcovers like the Joe Pickett Game Warden series. I’m disabled and don’t work so I have the time.
Oh, believe me. Since the Internet Renaissance and streaming TV, despite the fact that I’ve been a voracious reader most of my 50 years, I have to fight to pick up a physical book. Partly why I asked this question.
I’m retired so I have the luxury of spending as much time reading as I want but I’m easily distracted by something interesting on TV or incoming emails. (I bitterly resent the housework and yard work that interfere with my reading time but recognize that they’re necessary evils.) My favorite place to read is sitting on the couch where my desktop PC is right in front of me so that’s another distraction but my iPad is almost always on my lap opened to my Kindle app. I absolutely can NOT sit down to a meal without having something to read in front of me but, unlike most of you, I don’t like reading in bed … just can’t get comfortable so I stopped trying years ago. My long answer to your short question is at least 4-6 hours a day.
There are not many moments in the day when I am not listening to a book on my iPod shuffle…and those moments I am reading a “real” book or one on my Kindle. It is, to me, one of the best aspects of retirement….that, and no useless meetings to attend.
I’m an English major and college teacher, so pleasure: 4-8 hours per day—-I travel with a book in my car, yoga bag, etc; reading and grading essays….. hours? out of a lifetime
I work full time and if I read in the evening, I get sleepy. Thank goodness for audible books. One in the car, one in the bathroom while I get ready to go to work.
I just spent yesterday reading Veronica Roth Carve the Mark. I’m reading the sequel The fates Divide today ? I did get some house cleaning gone…. I do have priorities
Average is 20mins during my lunch break at work and maybe 10-15 mins at night before bed, if I don’t fall asleep. Most of my reading gets done on Saturday morning while I sit in the car waiting for my 85-yr-old mom while she’s at her weekly hair appointment!
I read about 4 hours a day on weekends, at least 6 hours on Saturday, and about 5 on Sunday, while listening my favorite regular classical music programming and (on weekdays) riding the bus to and from work.
Sometimes I’ll read even more if there’s an opera or a concert on Sirius that I want to hear, like the superb recording of “Tristan und Isolde” with Karl Liebl and Birgit Nilsson that I listened to Monday evening at 6 p.m. followed by the equally superb “Fidelio” with Nilsson and Jon Vickers. I started and finished a whole book that evening.
One to two hours. First thing in the morning before work while having my coffee and before going to bed. If it is a really good book I will spend more that that reading!
I listen to audio book for an hour a day while I walk the mall and usually another hour during day I try to read. When deadlines for book club creep up I read more.
I read on the train to and from work…an hour each way! Then sometimes at night. Weekends too, and if I can’t put it down, I’ve been known to stay up into the wee hours to finish. (Just one more chapter syndrome)
Now that I’m on summer vacation…I can read up to 5 hours at a time, only stopping to have something to eat. Then I pick my book up again before bed for a few more hours.
4-6 hours is daytime average, then usually 3-4 hours night time.. at least once a week with big bunker of a book +800-1400 pages.. straight read to last page..
I LOVE “bunker book”! I’m going to have to remember that! I’m prohibited from lending any books to my friend, Suzanne, if they are more than 350 pages long 🙂
Her loss ?.. does your friend read anthologies or short form collections?? I have been a fast reader, forever..though I can discern when my mind deliberately shifts down into 3rd reading gear when it’s nonfiction, verse or poetry..
@Kathleenellen Suzanne mostly reads biographies and non-fiction, though she HAS liked a few of the non-bunker-book novels I’ve passed along. I’m definitely NOT a non-fiction person, nor a poetry lover. Even had a best friend who was a published poet, but I would just shake my head when I read his “stuff”. 😉
I’m a binge reader. Will read a book straight through then others in a series if there any, then I won’t read for a week sometimes. My parents use to find me under the covers reading with a flashlight late at night when I was very young.
I try to get in an hour. I am a high school English teacher and when my students are doing leisure reading, I’m doing it, too. I have to show them that reading is a rich and wonderful part of adulthood. I can’t tell them it’s important to read and then have them never see me read for pleasure. It is a luxury that I get to do this, I know. ? I love the work I get to do.
As much as I want. I’m single and retired so my time is mine to use as I please. There are days that I don’t read till bedtime and others that I brew a pot of tea, open a box of pastries and just read.
I aspire to your life, @Patricia! I’m counting down the days (somewhere around 2,555) to retirement! Not sure I’ll be able to achieve the single part, though. ?
@Andrea find a newspaper that’s hiring although unfortunately newspapers keep cutting staff and there isn’t a full time proofreader anymore where I used to work 🙁
@Andrea Companies other than newspapers hire proofreaders, too. I’m currently at a marketing agency. Some coworkers previously worked at an advertising agency and at a financial company.
Not enough! I don’t count the hours reading with my classes (currently reading Wiesel’s Night with 5 sophomore English classes). I’ll be retiring in June, so I plan on having as much time as I want to read!
2-3 hrs each day but also spend about 2 hrs per day writing a memoir. This month was my 86th year celebration. I always have a book or two plus subscribe & read Atlantic, Harper, Sat Eve Post, Reader’s Digest & Vanity Fair.
Early morning for an hour or two, and usually evenings for a short time just before bed. Besides bookshelves, other books are placed strategically everywhere, even the car (not while driving, just in case of unexpected waiting, e.g. doctors’ offices, etc.). ???
p.s. My idea of heaven is a comfy chair in the most awesome library where I can read to my heart’s content. Oh, and snacks don’t make you gain weight!!!
Depends on the book. If it’s got my attention, I’ll read non-stop, or as my husband says ,”disappear” into the book until I’ve completed it. Most of the time 2-3 hours a day.
5 to 6, that includes Audible, as I do both. My eight year old granddaughter say, “ grandma you read too much”. I tell her there are a lot of worse things I could be doing.
My grampa told me that reading would take me anywhere In the world… let me imagine every imagination..n keep me happy even when things are hard… told my kids n now grandkids the same thing…
“There is no Frigate Like a Book” by Emily Dickinson There is no frigate like a book to take us to Lands away Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry- This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll- How frugal is the chariot That bears the human soul-
About 1-2 hrs a day. I thought I’d read SO MUCH MORE as a retiree, but I’m busy, busy, busy . . . & hate that I tend to doze off so easily while reading, no matter how much I love what I’m reading!
It honestly depends. Some days I don’t read at all because I’m busy, distracted, or simply don’t feel like it. Other days I’ll sit and read for ten hours, stopping only for vital things that keep me alive.
5 to 6 hours during the day, and I take an ipod to bed with me and listen to a book at night. I do not work and TV is so so bad, that I find myself reading more and more.
I sleep with my earbuds in. I set the audiobooks to shut off at the end of the chapter. It started when I had surgery and couldn’t sleep. It is so relaxing, except when I am really involved mentally in a book, and don’t fall asleep.
Always for about an hour after I go to bed, but I try to read during the day, too. Now that I don’t have to cram 3 or 4 books a week, I can actually enjoy a tv show in the evenings.
Now I’ve finished rereading the Mitford series. I have no idea who I want to hang out with again or who my friends will be. I think a 1,000 splendid suns. No, love the book. My question is who do I need to be at this lull in my life
I have four small children. It’s easier to read to them on a consistent basis, usually every day or two sessions per day, than it is to read my own grown-up selections. Phones have really detracted from reading books. It’s just plain easier to read news and infotainment than to pick up a book. Instagram is like dessert and it feels like less of a commitment after a long day.
Usually an hour
at least an hr, if I get sucked into the book, it might be more, to the detriment of my sleep schedule!
6 on a day when kids are at school and I have my chores done
2 hrs
Counting audiobook time about 5hrs a day, but that’s because I’m allowed to listen to my audiobooks at work.
At least 3-4 hours. But any chance I get I take advantage and read! But I read daily.
My New Year’s resolution for the last several years was to read or listen to a book for an hour a day. So far so good. Most days listening is better for me though.
1 hour
I get into bed around 1030pm, and read straight through until I get sleepy, which is usually 130am.
An hour minimum but many days it can be 3 or 4. I do not turn the tv on until the evening news.
At least 4 hours, plus listen to books whenever I am in the car. Reading is my passion, I am in 7 bookclubs.
4-6 hours counting audio books?
I work and have a very active 2 year old, so I only get to read at night before i fall asleep, so I read about a half hour, each night. Unless its a real page turner, then I read much longer than I should have! LOL
Not enough
I try for at least an hour every day though.
An hour or more
1-2 hours depending on my schedule.
About 3 hours
I would guess I average 45 minutes a day.
About an hour before bed.
about an hour or two before bed after kids are asleep
An hour, more on the weekend.
As much as possible. At least 3 hours all added up.
1-3 hours.
Now that I’m retired, about four 🙂
About three hours, long enough usually to finish one book a day.
2-3 hours.
I listen to 3 hours of audiobooks 5 days a week (commute) and I try to read at least one tangible book a month.
Reading at bedtime…anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour or more.
40-60 minutes when I’m on my exercise bike; sometimes an extra half-hour squeezed in somewhere else in my day (waiting at appts, before bed, etc). Saturday mornings offer me an hour or two before the rest of the house wakes up.
I read while eating breakfast and lunch; I read in the early evening and I read at bedtime. Probably 3-4 hours a day. Since my kids are now grown I have more free time.
It depends on the day, my work schedule, and my mood, but I don’t watch television, so my primary hobby is reading. I probably read at least 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes more. Sometimes less.
2 hours
2+ hours
Since I have kids and a job, it varies considerably. Most days I try to end with reading in bed, so I usually get at least 15-30 minutes in. On the weekends and over the summer (I’m a teacher), I can get considerably more time in. It helps that my children also love reading, so we do a lot of quiet afternoons reading in the air conditioning after playing outside in the morning (we’re in Texas).
As much as I possibly can, but I would say at least 2-4 hours a day. (Sometimes more, yikes!).
Depends. I generally do 90 minutes of an audiobook daily, and then probably 60-90 minutes of a traditional book.
I aim for 3 but I often pick a day of the week where I read almost all day- some where between 5-8 hours depends on my kids, my health, and how good the book is
2 to 3 hours a day, more on weekends. I’m a night owl so I read then.
I’ve never tracked it, but I’m sure it’s much too much – probably at least 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day.
It depends on the book. If I’m really into it. I can read for hours.
I am retired and read about three hours a day at night-if the book is boring or badly written about one-this does not happen often though and it is very seldom that I throw a book away-the books I do not want to read again I share with others or take them to Goodwill.
about 2.
2 hours during work week and about 4-5 during weekends. Not nearly enough!
I have a one hour commute to work each way so have a minimum 2 hours per day”reading” time.
At least an hour. But I also listen to audiobooks on my commute so that adds another 90 minutes per day give or take.
At least an hour before sleep each night, lots of hours on weekends.
according to my husband…perhaps 20 hours out of 24 ….told him I retired to read as much as I can…..
Me too?
Several hours. 6 years ago I was diagnosed with a serious medical condition that has left me disabled and pretty much homebound. Reading has become a lifeline.
Curious. Do you purchase books online or are you able to visit a local bookstore or…?
@Jenny – mostly e-books and Amazon.
Usually about 2 hours audio books during mindless tasks like dishes, laundry, sweeping and while driving. And then another 2 hours +/- reading print books. Some days less. And if I can possibly squeeze it in, more… as much as I can squeeze in.
Anywhere from no time to 10 hours depending on what I am doing. The average is probably 2-3 hours.
I aim for at least an hour, but there are times when it just doesn’t work out. Then there are the times I get so absorbed in a book, I forget all about sleep… or dishes…or eating… 🙂
Varies , some days none ,some days 3hours. Late night as I am retired. Staying up late reading is a true joy in my life
1to2 hours during the week, but on weekends especially during the summer I will sit on my back porch and will read all day!
3+ usually
3 + hours
It varies. I’m retired so can read all day if I am really into a book, but more often I read between chores, gardening, walking my dog, so an average of two to five hours.
Depends on time available or if there is something I have to see on BPS. about two or three hours day and/evening.
Couple hours a day unless I just can’t put the book down!
I have two small kids, so I try to do an hour before bed, but it doesn’t always work out. I do audiobooks in stolen moments thoughout the day though, like when I’m doing dishes or waiting, and that way, I’m able to get about 3 hours a day.
Not nearly enough… hehe!
Two to three hours, average … more when I can!
2 hours
It used to be about 3 hours a day spread between my bus ride, lunch & wind down before bed. Now that I’m retired it’s closer to 6 to 8.
4 to 5 hours
2-3 hours.
I don’t have a set amount of time. At the very least, I read during my lunch break and before bed.
Always through my 30 minute lunch hour and for a while before falling asleep. Then any other minute possible!
I’m a bedtime reader—sometimes go to bed as early as 7:00 and read for several hours. I set my phone with a “time for sleep” alarm to remind me to stop reading at midnight, as I’ve been known, if the book is a real page-turner, to find myself still reading at sun-up! With my current stop-at-midnight schedule, I regularly read at least 3 hours each night. I start a new book every 2-3 days?
1 hr
At least two hours, more if I can!!
About an hour (30 minutes each way on the train to and from work).
At least an hour in the morning, or when the coffee pot is empty; and an hour at night.
About two hours a night during the week, more over the weekend. And lots more if I can’t put the book down! ?
at least an hour each night, more during the weekends. Plus I’ll listen to Audible when I’m done reading to really put me to sleep.
Where would I be without their sleep timer?
Since I got my kindle and found I can download books from our county library, I have been spending lots more time reading off and on all day long. Thankfully, I’m retired so I have time. I can’t really say how many hours I spend reading but I can tell you that I’ve been averaging a book every 2-3 days. Reading is one of the best activities ever!
Totally jealous. Lol!
Sorry! You’ll have your day!
Unfortunately only about an hour each day. I try in the evenings but doesn’t always work. I read about 30 minutes while I eat lunch and about 30 minutes before bed.
Several hours during simultaneous other activities
No set amount. I try to finish a book a week. Hammock season more, my favorite place to read ! I may need new eyes when my new little apartment is finished. I am putting one in my bedroom.
I fall asleep so often when I’m reading. Hammock reading sounds wonderful!
Me writing , my second book. At least a page a day.
2 hours. After 3 with a cup of coffee and sometimes around 9 for an hour. Never later cause reading puts me to sleep.
My perfect time too, or very early in the morning!
I try to carve out at least 2 hours a day.
Before bed around 1-2 hours unless I’m lounging at the beach.
I’m a life long reader, I use to read when I first woke up and the before I went to sleep especially when my children were little now I read in the daytime. If I read in bed I either fall right to sleep or in the case of a really good book I read all night.
I can read a book a day if I read non-stop. Paperback and some hardcovers like the Joe Pickett Game Warden series. I’m disabled and don’t work so I have the time.
Not enough.
I’ve found that reading for an hour in the morning with coffee before going online has been the best time for me to get reading in.
Oh, believe me. Since the Internet Renaissance and streaming TV, despite the fact that I’ve been a voracious reader most of my 50 years, I have to fight to pick up a physical book. Partly why I asked this question.
Couple of hours
Depends on the day, obviously, but I’m guesstimating about 3 hours a day average.
2 hours, on average
I’m retired so I have the luxury of spending as much time reading as I want but I’m easily distracted by something interesting on TV or incoming emails. (I bitterly resent the housework and yard work that interfere with my reading time but recognize that they’re necessary evils.) My favorite place to read is sitting on the couch where my desktop PC is right in front of me so that’s another distraction but my iPad is almost always on my lap opened to my Kindle app. I absolutely can NOT sit down to a meal without having something to read in front of me but, unlike most of you, I don’t like reading in bed … just can’t get comfortable so I stopped trying years ago. My long answer to your short question is at least 4-6 hours a day.
I love your comment about housework! I do too!
@Marcia I live alone but I keep telling myself that living in squalor would be a huge embarrassment if something happened to me. ? ?
Hahaha! I totally understand!!
There are not many moments in the day when I am not listening to a book on my iPod shuffle…and those moments I am reading a “real” book or one on my Kindle. It is, to me, one of the best aspects of retirement….that, and no useless meetings to attend.
I hear ya!
Not enough!
Retired and sometimes read up to 6 hrs a day. And listen to audio books before bed.
Only an hour and a half a day counting audio books while commuting. I need to retire so I can read more!
I’m an English major and college teacher, so pleasure: 4-8 hours per day—-I travel with a book in my car, yoga bag, etc; reading and grading essays….. hours? out of a lifetime
At least 2 hours, usually more like 4.
One hour???
A minimum of 2 hours
Usually 6-8.
About 60-90 minutes —usually before bedtime.
Two or three hours on weekdays, more on weekends.
As much time as I can squeeze out of the day and always before bed.
I work full time and if I read in the evening, I get sleepy. Thank goodness for audible books. One in the car, one in the bathroom while I get ready to go to work.
I just spent yesterday reading Veronica Roth Carve the Mark. I’m reading the sequel The fates Divide today ? I did get some house cleaning gone…. I do have priorities
About an hour……when I rest and always at bedtime. IF the book grabs me really GOOD, then forget sleep, I keep reading……..have read until 4 am .
The only way I can read in bed anymore is with audible books…can’t get comfy anymore with a Kindle or real book.
About 3 to 4 hrs. I need more time. So many books so little time.
About 3 hours
Not nearly enough!
Average is 20mins during my lunch break at work and maybe 10-15 mins at night before bed, if I don’t fall asleep. Most of my reading gets done on Saturday morning while I sit in the car waiting for my 85-yr-old mom while she’s at her weekly hair appointment!
I read about 4 hours a day on weekends, at least 6 hours on Saturday, and about 5 on Sunday, while listening my favorite regular classical music programming and (on weekdays) riding the bus to and from work.
Sometimes I’ll read even more if there’s an opera or a concert on Sirius that I want to hear, like the superb recording of “Tristan und Isolde” with Karl Liebl and Birgit Nilsson that I listened to Monday evening at 6 p.m. followed by the equally superb “Fidelio” with Nilsson and Jon Vickers. I started and finished a whole book that evening.
1-2hours
At least an hour on my lunch break; try for another hour in the evening. When vacation comes, as much as possible!!
One to two hours
2-3 hours, more on weekends
At least an hour before bed and all the minutes I can steal.
1-2 hours before bed.
One to two hours. First thing in the morning before work while having my coffee and before going to bed. If it is a really good book I will spend more that that reading!
I listen to audio book for an hour a day while I walk the mall and usually another hour during day I try to read. When deadlines for book club creep up I read more.
At least an hour.
1-2 hours with more on the weekend.
I understand…
2-3 hours
Two hours
I get more time to listen. I can listen to Audible for about 3 – 4 hours a day and read 1/2 hour to an hour a day
An hour before bed and sometimes during the day of it is really good.
As much as I can.
As much as i can. I read more than I watch t.v. ??
3 – 4 hours
I read on the train to and from work…an hour each way! Then sometimes at night. Weekends too, and if I can’t put it down, I’ve been known to stay up into the wee hours to finish. (Just one more chapter syndrome)
I spend half my day reading emails and blogs and miscellaneous data on the computer and and 1-2 hours a day for pleasure.
Now that I’m on summer vacation…I can read up to 5 hours at a time, only stopping to have something to eat. Then I pick my book up again before bed for a few more hours.
As much as I can manage and not nearly enough!
Around 2 to 3 hrs I usually read at bedtime
Not nearly enough!
Less than an hour interspersed throughout the day whenever I can find a moment
During work week an hour or two! Weekends…a lot
4-6 hrs more in the winter
I would say 4 to 6 during the week and I would say like 8 on Saturday. Not counting what I listen to when I drive or work. ?
E-mails–fifteen minutes. Books–thirty minutes. I make time for that during my lunch hour.
Two hours, but puts me to sleep
3 to 4 hours
I read at least an hour before bed every night and now that nice weather is finally here, I like to read on the porch after dinner for about an hour.
About two hours, more or less.
It depends how many books are waiting and how close to book club. Usually two hours as I read with mute on the TV and during commercials.
Two to three hours, more in the summer.
Not enough
1-3 Hours during the week, more on the weekends.
Same as @Ann
1-3 hours depending what I’ve got going on, though some days I take a break from it to mull over what I’ve read.
6 to hours. Read in is my life.
At least 5-6 hours, mostly evenings and bedtime. I read some in the morning while I eat my breakfast.
5 mins – an hour per day….I get in little spurts between doing other stuff throughout the day
3-5 hours..
At least 2 hours.
Unfortunately only about a half hour per night. More on the weekend.
I try for at least an hour everyday. I walk around with a book on my off days, lol.
1-3 hours
30-45 minutes per day
4-6 hours is daytime average, then usually 3-4 hours night time.. at least once a week with big bunker of a book +800-1400 pages.. straight read to last page..
I LOVE “bunker book”! I’m going to have to remember that! I’m prohibited from lending any books to my friend, Suzanne, if they are more than 350 pages long 🙂
Her loss ?..
does your friend read anthologies or short form collections??
I have been a fast reader, forever..though I can discern when my mind deliberately shifts down into 3rd reading gear when it’s nonfiction, verse or poetry..
@Kathleenellen Suzanne mostly reads biographies and non-fiction, though she HAS liked a few of the non-bunker-book novels I’ve passed along. I’m definitely NOT a non-fiction person, nor a poetry lover. Even had a best friend who was a published poet, but I would just shake my head when I read his “stuff”. 😉
Sadly – only about 1 hour per day
I am retired. Read off and on during the day and an hour before bed, so perhaps 2-4 hours most days.
I will read two days solid or go weeks without reading. There is no consistency for me.
I do the same thing.
Usually 30 minutes to 1 hour if I’m lucky. Many times I eat into my sleeping time to do it (not ideal).
30 min to an hr.
Depends on how busy the day is.
For school, 5 hours (about 100 pages a day). Now that I’m out for summer and have free time, I read all day.
I’m a binge reader. Will read a book straight through then others in a series if there any, then I won’t read for a week sometimes. My parents use to find me under the covers reading with a flashlight late at night when I was very young.
I also “snuck read” after bedtime as a child. My mother swears that I ruined my eyes (nearsighted before LASIK). I know that wasn’t it!! ?
@Angela , same for me. I’m the only one of 4 who has been “almost blind” since childhood.
An hour
An hour
however long before i fall asleep, sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes an hour.
An hour during weeknights and more on the weekend
I try to get in an hour. I am a high school English teacher and when my students are doing leisure reading, I’m doing it, too. I have to show them that reading is a rich and wonderful part of adulthood. I can’t tell them it’s important to read and then have them never see me read for pleasure. It is a luxury that I get to do this, I know. ? I love the work I get to do.
Ditto❤ My students love to ask me about what I’m reading.
30-60 minutes.
Total? During the week, an hour, maybe 2. On the weekend…not usually as much. Never, ever enough! ?
As much as I want. I’m single and retired so my time is mine to use as I please. There are days that I don’t read till bedtime and others that I brew a pot of tea, open a box of pastries and just read.
I aspire to your life, @Patricia! I’m counting down the days (somewhere around 2,555) to retirement! Not sure I’ll be able to achieve the single part, though. ?
Same here Patricia. I often start a book and finish it in the same day.
2-3 hours. Depends
30 minutes – 2 hours. If I’m settled on the couch or in bed, and my cat’s on my lap, I can read for hours.
Only read at night which becomes dangerous if it’s a non-put-downable book!
NOT ENOUGH!!!
At least a couple of hours!
An hour
For work or pleasure?
Ugh, let’s leave work out of it. 😀
@Rose lol ok! Then probably only 3 hours a week in paper form, audio books 3 additional hours
An hour
As long as I can stay awake at night, sometime 15 minutes sometimes hours
Usually 3 hours
Roughly an hour. I get most of my consistent reading in with audiobooks on my commute to work
I probably average 4-6 hours per day in audible books and reading news another 2 hours.
Probably 2 hrs, maybe more depending how much sleep I’m willing to give up.
45 to an hour before bed, unwind my mind and I sleep better after some good reading
Six hours
2-3 hours
About an hour on average. But I like an audio book at bedtime to turn my brain off for about half an hour.
3 hrs with a nap sometimes mixed in
At least 2.5 hours (audio books) on my commute and usually another hour before bed
30-60 mins
1.5-2 hours
About two and a half to three hours
45 minutes, before going to sleep
2-4 hours. Give me a day alone though and it rises to 6-8. ?
3 hours.
At least an hour!
Not enough and I miss it!
2-3 hours….. I try to aim for a minimum of 100 pages
Not enough
1-3 hours.
3 hrs
Not enough time! Maybe 30 minutes to an hour each evening, unless I’m traveling for work and then lots of airplane time!
Great question! Reading for pleasure/book club 1 hr. and reading for info. newspaper/Bible study 1 hr.
It’s my job #proofreader + current events + pleasure 😉
I was a proofreader at a local newspaper, so then I read 8 to 9 hours a day
How do I get a job like that ?
@Andrea find a newspaper that’s hiring although unfortunately newspapers keep cutting staff and there isn’t a full time proofreader anymore where I used to work 🙁
@Andrea Companies other than newspapers hire proofreaders, too. I’m currently at a marketing agency. Some coworkers previously worked at an advertising agency and at a financial company.
2/3 hours
2-3 in 15 minute stretches
Not enough! I don’t count the hours reading with my classes (currently reading Wiesel’s Night with 5 sophomore English classes). I’ll be retiring in June, so I plan on having as much time as I want to read!
A half hour, if I’m lucky. Often I have zero time, but try to bleed out a few minutes.
2-3 hrs each day but also spend about 2 hrs per day writing a memoir. This month was my 86th year celebration. I always have a book or two plus subscribe & read Atlantic, Harper, Sat Eve Post, Reader’s Digest & Vanity Fair.
What a blessing!
15 minutes here and there throughout the course of the day. Otherwise I would sit for hours at a time.
Close to an hour – at lunch
No
6 – 8 hours. It’s the best part of being retired!
Totally agree!!
1-3 hours
I don’t read every day. ?
I need to replace some of my online time with real reading.
In the summer? If I’m lucky – 1-2 hours! Otherwise, 30-60 minutes (if I can stay awake!).
my reading habits vary. Sometimes I’m just not in the mood to read & sometimes I read all afternoon?
Early morning for an hour or two, and usually evenings for a short time just before bed. Besides bookshelves, other books are placed strategically everywhere, even the car (not while driving, just in case of unexpected waiting, e.g. doctors’ offices, etc.). ???
one hour at bedtime and when I wake up in the night too – bad sleeper
About an 1-2 total a day. If work is really slow I get a good 3-4 hours in.
Depending on the day, I try to get at least 3-4 hours. I am retired, so it’s easier for me.
2-3, but I don’t have kids so my freetime is mine!
2 to 3 hours
Not as much as I’d like 🙂
not enough 😉
Between 2-3 hours counting the reading I do in bed at night.
1 to 2
3-4 hours
p.s. My idea of heaven is a comfy chair in the most awesome library where I can read to my heart’s content. Oh, and snacks don’t make you gain weight!!!
Mine is a chair on the beach in off season with no one around.
@Judy, since my children are grown, my hubby and I only go to the beach in the off season while kids are in school. #peace
3-5 hours (audiobooks really help bump that up)
About an hour
3 on a weekday, on a weekend where I dont have plans or many errands 5-6.
2-3 hours
Probably only about an hour / hour and a half, but I’d kill for more! 🙂
Most days 1 to 2 hours. Longer if the book is so good I can’t put it down and I have the time.
2 to 3 hours
Since my husband retired, a lot less than I used to….certainly less than I’d like to!
We joined a book club that meets at a bar when my husband retired. I read more now.
@Renee my husband is not a reader except for magazines and the newspaper. Never an actual book.
Depends on the book. If it’s got my attention, I’ll read non-stop, or as my husband says ,”disappear” into the book until I’ve completed it. Most of the time 2-3 hours a day.
2 to 3 hours during the week. 4to 5 on weekends
2+ hours!! Not including internet gar-bagggge!
1hr sometimes 2
2 hours
an hour….one of the little problems of getting older is eyes that get tired too quickly
An hour but I hope to read more now that summer is upon us.
2-3 hours at night
Not nearly enough.
1-2 hrs, plus i listen to books on Audible for another 2
2 hours a day during the week. More on the weekends
According to my husband 20 out of 24 hours….he might be pretty close.
Not enough! Between 2-3 hours. I’m slow!
5 to 6, that includes Audible, as I do both. My eight year old granddaughter say, “ grandma you read too much”. I tell her there are a lot of worse things I could be doing.
My grampa told me that reading would take me anywhere In the world… let me imagine every imagination..n keep me happy even when things are hard… told my kids n now grandkids the same thing…
“There is no Frigate Like a Book” by Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book
to take us to Lands away
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry-
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll-
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul-
Never heard that before ty beautiful
I’m in my car 2-3 hrs/day commuting. Audio books are my saving grace on my commute
Audio books are all I listen to in my car, even if it is 5 minutes to the grocery store.
1-2 hours during the week, lots more on the weekends, so a daily average is probably 4-5.
Not as much as I should or would love to ?
About 1-2 hrs a day. I thought I’d read SO MUCH MORE as a retiree, but I’m busy, busy, busy . . . & hate that I tend to doze off so easily while reading, no matter how much I love what I’m reading!
Audio Books, have become my friend. While I am cooking, driving,cleaning, gardening, going for my daily walk, I always have a book with me.
@Barbara I agree!! I do a lot of traveling for 2-3 hrs to see my grandkids in 3 different towns, & I always listen to audiobooks while driving!
@Jo , that’s why I dropped Sirius radio. I was listening to audiobooks!!
@Peggy
I did the same. The only time I listen to music in the car, is when I am riding with my husband, in his car. My car audiobooks 100%
My lunch hour and then whenever I can fit it in.
I listen for 1-2 hrs a day. Read 1- 2hrs at night.
Every spare moment. Usually at least 2-3 but often more.
Including audio in the car , 2 to 3 hours a day. I watch very little TV.
I rarely, turn on my TV. I am content to read or listen to books.
It honestly depends. Some days I don’t read at all because I’m busy, distracted, or simply don’t feel like it. Other days I’ll sit and read for ten hours, stopping only for vital things that keep me alive.
Two hours, more on my days off.
For pleasure — probably about 2 hours. On weekends / days off – a little more.
6+ hours now that I’m retired
5 to 6 hours during the day, and I take an ipod to bed with me and listen to a book at night. I do not work and TV is so so bad, that I find myself reading more and more.
I sleep with my earbuds in. I set the audiobooks to shut off at the end of the chapter. It started when I had surgery and couldn’t sleep. It is so relaxing, except when I am really involved mentally in a book, and don’t fall asleep.
I read Chesapeake ,over 1100 pages in 2 days. I got about 3 hours sleep. By James mitchner
I love Mitchner, but, you have to force yourself thru the first 300 hundred pages. Centennial is one-of my favorites.
I so enjoy Mitchner. It’s been a long time since I have read one of his great reads.
Had the worse headache ever the next morning
When I read Alaska I wanted to move there, with Chesapeake I’m from Baltimore am part native American camped on the bay. He is wordy
One of my favorite books! Have you read The Source? A bit difficult to get into. But once I did……!
Have started a list,will add thanks
Author please
@Betty …if you are asking me…The Source is also by James Michener.
Thanks @Barbara
Working through it slow but sure. Grew up in Tidewater area.
@Nikki is that on the eastern shore
If i could it would be 24 hrs. But I’m limited to about 2 in a relaxing tub before bed
Always for about an hour after I go to bed, but I try to read during the day, too. Now that I don’t have to cram 3 or 4 books a week, I can actually enjoy a tv show in the evenings.
Now I’ve finished rereading the Mitford series. I have no idea who I want to hang out with again or who my friends will be. I think a 1,000 splendid suns. No, love the book. My question is who do I need to be at this lull in my life
1-2 hours generally
I have four small children. It’s easier to read to them on a consistent basis, usually every day or two sessions per day, than it is to read my own grown-up selections. Phones have really detracted from reading books. It’s just plain easier to read news and infotainment than to pick up a book. Instagram is like dessert and it feels like less of a commitment after a long day.
Depends on the day.
4 to 6 hours
Approximately 1-3 hours per day
Not as much as I would like. About a half hour to an hour. Good thing I read fast