Social-Media-Nutzer und „Bootkokers“ mit ihren Leseherausforderungen sind verrückt. Sie behaupten, 200, 400 oder 600 Bücher pro Jahr zu lesen, und sagen immer, das sei „durchaus plausibel“ und 1–2 Bücher pro Tag zu lesen sei „keine große Sache“.
Sie schaffen „mühelos“ ein oder zwei Bücher pro Tag, wenn sie frei haben. Und manche sogar, wenn sie arbeiten müssen.
Kürzlich habe ich mich mit einem Mädchen unterhalten, das behauptete, in diesem Jahr bisher 400 Bücher gelesen zu haben. Es ist Mitte August. Etwa zwei Drittel der Kommentatoren haben mich angegriffen, weil ich es gewagt habe, diese Zahl anzuzweifeln. „Nur weil du es nicht kannst, heißt das nicht, dass andere es nicht können.“ „Sie liebt es einfach zu lesen.“ Und andere unsinnige „Argumente“.
All diese Leute werden extrem feindselig, wenn jemand skeptisch ist. So wie es jeder sein sollte.
Denn selbst wenn sie superschnelle Leser mit 500 Wörtern pro Minute oder mehr sind – diese Geschwindigkeit lässt sich vielleicht 10 Minuten lang aufrechterhalten, bevor sie drastisch abfällt. Niemand kann konstant so schnell lesen.
Außerdem ist Lesen anstrengend für die Augen und den Geist. Nach drei oder vier Stunden ununterbrochenem Lesen brauchen die Menschen eine Pause.
Es ist auch einfach unmöglich, ein ganzes Jahr lang ununterbrochen jeden Tag ein oder zwei Bücher zu lesen, ohne Pause, ohne Erholung.
Außerdem geht die Rechnung nicht auf.
ca. 20 % der Deutschen lesen 0 Bücher pro Jahr. Der Durchschnitt liegt bei ca. 8 pro Jahr. Und nur 23 % lesen mehr als 10 pro Jahr.
https://lesehits.de/Fragen/wie-viele-buecher-liest-der-durchschnittliche-deutsche.html
Die Anwendung dieser Parameter auf eine normale Gauß-Verteilung führt zu folgenden Ergebnissen:
Wenn 20 % der Menschen überhaupt keine Bücher lesen und der Durchschnitt bei 8 liegt, dann beträgt der Anteil der Menschen, die mehr als 50 Bücher lesen, 0,00013 %. Das entspricht 1 zu 100 000 Menschen.
https://statskingdom.com/normal-distribution-calculator.html
Von Behauptungen über 150 oder mehr ganz zu schweigen.
Doch jedes Mal, wenn man einen Thread darüber erstellt, dass es Blödsinn ist, dass Menschen Hunderte von Büchern pro Jahr lesen, wird der Thread von etwa 50 Leuten überschwemmt, die behaupten, mehr als 100 zu lesen, von denen etwa 30 behaupten, 200, 400 oder 600 Bücher zu lesen.
Das ist mathematisch unmöglich. All diese Leute lügen entweder oder zählen ihre 20-seitige Vibrator-Bedienungsanleitung als Buch, um die Zahlen aufzublähen, damit ihr kleines, zerbrechliches Ego etwas Aufmerksamkeit bekommt. Das ist alles Quatsch, und ich habe das mathematisch bewiesen.
Es ist nicht „durchaus plausibel“, Hunderte von Büchern pro Jahr zu lesen, und man schafft nicht „mühelos“ jeden Tag 1–2 Romane, es sei denn, diese „Romane“ sind deine 20-seitige Vibrator-Bedienungsanleitung oder du überspringst bzw. überfliegst die „langen und langweiligen beschreibenden Textpassagen“ jedes Buches, das du liest.
Social media users and “bookworms” with their reading challenges are crazy. They claim to read 200, 400, or 600 books a year, and always say that’s “entirely plausible” and that reading 1–2 books a day is “no big deal.”
They “effortlessly” get through one or two books a day when they have time off. And some even do it when they have to work.
I recently talked to a girl who claimed to have read 400 books so far this year. It’s mid-August. About two-thirds of the commenters attacked me for daring to question that number. “Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean others can’t.” “She just loves to read.” And other nonsensical “arguments.”
All these people become extremely hostile when someone is skeptical—just as everyone should be.
Because even if they’re super-fast readers at 500 words per minute or more, that speed can probably only be maintained for about 10 minutes before it drops dramatically. No one can read that fast consistently.
Besides, reading is tiring for the eyes and the mind. After three or four hours of uninterrupted reading, people need a break.
It’s also simply impossible to read one or two books every single day for an entire year without a break.
Besides, the math doesn't add up.
About 40% of Americans read 0 books per year. The average is about 8 per year. And only 4% read more than 50 per year.
https://lithub.com/in-2025-most-americans-read-fewer-than-four-books/
Applying these parameters to a normal Gaussian distribution yields the following results:
If 40% of people read no books at all and the average is 8, then the proportion of people who read more than 100 books is 0.0063%. That corresponds to 1 in 16 000 people.
People reading more than 130 books/year would come to 0.000019% or 1:5.3 Million.
https://statskingdom.com/normal-distribution-calculator.html
Never mind claims of 150 or more.
But every time someone starts a thread pointing out that it’s nonsense for people to read hundreds of books a year, the thread gets flooded by about 50 people claiming to read more than 100, of whom about
30 claim to read 200, 400, or 600 books.
That’s mathematically impossible. All these people are either lying or counting their 20-page vibrator instruction manual as a book to inflate the numbers so their tiny, fragile egos get a little attention. It’s all nonsense, and I’ve proven it mathematically.
It’s not “entirely plausible” to read hundreds of books a year, and you can’t “effortlessly” get through 1–2 novels every day, unless those “novels” are your 20-page vibrator instruction manual or you skip or skim the “long and boring descriptive passages” in every book you read.
So stop lying and pretending.
I had to self control and remain calm for 25 years of my life because of absuive parents. Im not taking shit from anyone for even a milisecond and will call out their bs. Yet people are like "if you fail to control yourself and fail to remain calm during a confrontation its a failure of your character".
Well try surviving 1000-2000 confrontations by people that have power over you for 15 or 20 or 25 years. And still remain calm and in self control when a random stranger pisses you off. Then we can talk.
Parents bought me a car at 19 or a house at 22 then threatened to take it away every time i disagreed with them.
Oh boohooo. Your parents controlling you with punishment is not abuse, the car/money/house are not just free gifts they are privileges that can be taken away with bad behaviour, nobody is entitled to a free car/house. You are an adult and have every opportunity to reject the gift if you want to live life your own way.
If you didnt you are just a spoiled entitled brat. Ohh I was abused because parents threatened to take away my car/house when I disagreed with them. Cool story bro. Tell that to the people that get beaten or sexually assaulted every single day.
I had to self control and remain calm for 25 years of my life. Im not taking shit from anyone for even a milisecond and will call out their bs. Yet people are like "if you fail to control yourself and fail to remain calm during a confrontation its a failure of your character".
Well try surviving 1000-2000 confrontations by people that have power over you for 15 or 20 or 25 years. And still remain calm and in self control when a random stranger pisses you off. Then we can talk.
I had to self control and remain calm for 25 years of my life. Im not taking shit from anyone for even a milisecond and will call out their bs.
Yet people are like "if you fail to control yourself and fail to remain calm during a confrontation its a failure of your character". Well try surviving 1000-2000 confrontations by people that have power over you for 15 or 20 or 25 years. And still remain calm and in self control when a random stranger pisses you off. Then we can talk.
Imagine a better parallel reality where the world had followed Chinas example of a one child policy since 1979. World population was 4.4 Billion then. With a 1 Child policy it would have hit some 6 Billion today. Imagine if we had 2 Billion less people on this Planet.
Or some 25% less. The US would have 85 Million less people. Europe over 100 Million less people. Africa 400 Million less people. Asia over 1 Billion less people.
CO2 production would be 25% lower. Climate change would be on the level of the early 2000s. There would be only minimal water shortages. Less methane cows. It would not be perfect but our situation would be much better than it is today.
But for some reason many people think that the very concept of overpopulation is evil. That it also doesnt exist and that having an extra 2-3 Billion people on the Planet is a good thing.
How did this happen? Who did this? Our resources are already strained to the breaking point. How can people still believe that even more people competing for scarce resources is a good thing?
Venkovní rolety téměř nepomáhají. Mám přenosnou klimatizaci, ale v tomhle horku dokáže v malé místnosti snížit teplotu maximálně o 2–3 stupňů. Skutečnou klimatizaci si nesmím nainstalovat – vzhledem ke konstrukci budovy by to bylo velmi obtížné.
Nemůžu nic dělat a jen tak lenošně ležím. Jít ven je ještě horší, protože tam je o 5–6 stupňů víc. Bez ventilátoru bych to nevydržel. Ve 11 večer je pořád ještě 31 stupňů. Otevřít okna je proto téměř nemožné.
Je to naše budoucnost? Každé léto tři měsíce pekla?
I once wrote with a guy who attempted the 100 books/year challenge. He said he made it but this amount of reading left him burned out and negatively impacted his private and professional life. Like worse work performance and almost no time spent with family. Many chores just piled up.
But he was really proud of managing it and posted it on the book sub. One of the first responses he got was "just 100? Thats nothing. I read over 300 books this year."
Other claims one can find on the various book subs or youtube or tiktok/booktok are 400 or 500 or even 600 a year and its just mindboggling. Its just some weird Booktok trend where people have to pretend to read that much to be awesome or something. And pretty much everyone of these people is lying.
There might be a very very few outliers out there who could manage this by reading exclusively very short and easy books or just having Audiobooks run as background noise at 3x speed all the time and doing nothing else with their lives, but everyone with a full time or even part time job - absolutely no way. These claims are just the regular social media bragger lies so that some people can get attention. Like 100 books/year yeah sure thats doable if you invest most of your time into it. But anything over that starts being questionable. Especially once we reach 150+ and people claiming that its "easy" and "no big deal" because thats like "only" half a book a day.
And I am just tired of these social media braggers spreading their obvious and ridiculous lies and then attacking everyone who utters the smallest shred of doubt.
In 2024 I read 422 books. Last year it was 427. I just love reading. And I love to share it on Social media. But then there are nasty people who doubt my words and attack me and it makes me very angry!
422 or 427 books a year. Thats less than 1.2 books a day. And 1.2 books a day, thats basically nothing. I dont know what the big deal is? I am a very fast reader so I can go through a normal 150-200 page light or romance novel/ya novel/manga/graphic novel/comic in like 2-3 hours. Especially if I skim the long and boring describing text parts.
I also listen to Audiobooks when I multitask. At 2x or 3x speed I can go through the average 8-9 hour Audiobook in just 3-4 hours. I have to do it at 2x or 3x speed because the narrator is otherwise to slow. Not to get through the book faster.
Then the naggers come and claim that its impossible. That listening to someone else reading to you while you are not paying attention at 2x or 3x speed is not reading. These people are just crazy ableist gatekeepers. I consumed the content. Doenst matter that someone else did the reading for me.
They are slow and undisciplined readers who are just jealous of my achievments. Sure most of my books are light stuff, because I just love to read hundreds of light/romance novels/ya novels/mangas/graphic novels/comics for entertainment. But I also read dozens of longer and complicated books with 250+ pages each year.
I just dont know why these people call me a liar when I post my reading achievements and goodreads list on social media, to show other people how super awesome I am. They are just jealous, undisciplined, ableist gatekeepers and slow readers, that just cant keep up. And I am so angry for them doubting and attacking me! How dare they?