In practice, it means I need to buy way more books/bring more books on trips/etc so it's a mixed blessing I guess.
I would be either
very broke, or the local thrift stores very sparse on books (far more likely: Both.), if I didn't have the internet and fanfiction. I distinctly remember reading
every sci-fi/fantasy book in the local library system... back in like 5th/6th grade. On top of everything I could manage to acquire from other sources. 100k words is somewhere in the 3-4 hour range, with distractions. Half a million or more in a week I'm being particularly frisky is... fairly normal. It doesn't slow down much when it's print or stuff more dense than pleasure reading. Just tend to re-read passages a lot with the latter, so pages covered is lower~
The fact that it still took me four weeks to finish reading Worm kinda scares me when I start recommending it to friends though.
Eeee, I checked. Sorta'. It's at least over
1.75 million words~At two hundred words a minute, that is roughly a week
straight of non-stop reading. Which I think would be non-trivially capable of killing someone from sleep deprivation? See people? If you step up your game, you might be able to survive the supervillain that won't let you sleep until you read Worm from cover to cover.
I would totally be that supervillain. Read or die, eeeheeeheeheeheeeee