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Ask HN: Has anyone become a voracious reader later in life?

5 pointsby optbuildover 2 years ago
Most readers I have encountered say that they fell in love with reading after encountering book XYZ in their childhood or adolescence.<p>Has anyone on HN become readers later on in their life? Like in college, grad school or even later?

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geoahover 2 years ago
Around my early 30s, I probably had read less than 20 non technical books before that and now I’m at somewhere between 50-80 per year since then. I’ve managed to keep this up for 7-8 years but I’m now finding increasingly harder to find engaging books to read. The book that did it for me was The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.
brudgersover 2 years ago
My beloved started reading for pleasure a few years after grad school.<p>That&#x27;s increased to daily and sometimes several books in a week over the last three decades.<p>Good luck.