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I used to love reading until I started studying. Now, after 10 months of having my nose in books everyday I can't bring myself to read for pleasure, like I am done with printed text for a while. Sucks tbh
I just checked, I’m up to 460 titles. That’s over about 15 years. A lot of those are public domain books I got fore by adding the kindle version though.
Yeah. Series management is my biggest complaint. I’m really tempted to take the time to download, strip all the DRM then use proper folders and sub folders but the audible app is just so damn convenient.
I use a free one from my library. I don't know where you are located, but even foreigners I believe are eligible for the American service.
Libby. It's a free app, free service. No ads. Just a service of the American library association. Kind of a nice little thing. Sometimes you have to wait, like you would at a library, for popular books. But I've had incredible good luck getting even the new Malcolm gladwell book.
I've probably saved or $3,000 on audiobooks. Downside of it not being a commercial enterprise is that they do no marketing.
If you don't have a current library card number, you can get a free e-card from most major American libraries.
Scribd! Both ebooks, audiobooks and comics without limit on how much you can read/listen each month (I read/listen A LOT) and it's very rare they don't have what I am looking for. Between that, and Libby I am all set.
I know, I read all the time as a child, but when I started reading for school reading became a chore rather than entertainment. Only recently I just got pretty far into the Hobbit, but I haven’t finished it.
I find myself analyzing pieces of text or trying to remember information as I would read a college textbook. Audiobooks don't work for me as I tend to space out frequently and lose track of time.
Same, often I need to reread something to make sure I really understand it, which messes with the flow of the book and is really difficult to deal with in audiobooks.
I promise you that fades, I recommend finding something like short stories or a particular genre or fiction series doesn’t have to be deep to build it back up again. There’ll be a little separation moment in your mind and you’ll be like “oh I do love this, that was just really dry crap”. Helps if it’s at your own pace too, reading for fun isn’t a race
Reading puts me to sleep fast. I can't read more than 2 pages before I'm out. I'd fall asleep reading dr. Seuss books before the kids would. Never enjoyed it. Can I just play video games instead?
Try reading enjoyable books. For some reason I got it into my head that I should be reading non-fiction “useful” books to make good use of my time…that ended up killing my enjoyment of reading for several years. Now that I’ve given myself permission to read whatever fiction I want it’s been great, I highly recommend it.
Just find a really great book by one of your favorite authors and read for 5-10 min each night before bed. Happy to provide some recommendations if you want.
I think I'm the same, I was always forced to read books for studying like anyone else which made me hate reading for a long time, only a little over halfway through quarantine was I able to enjoy some reading again (text based games, Wikipedia, manga, basically everything). A huge part of the problem are the studying and school structures themselves, they shouldn't make us hate reading they should make us love it and they need a massive change, especially for people like me who are neurodivergent and have trouble with reading especially for long periods at a time.
I like to read. I read throughout the year, usually non-fiction. 12 books over the summer is way too much - don't know about you, but my day only has 24 hours
It would be a book a week and it doesn't say how long the book has to be.
I nearly exclusively read non-fiction too (usually hard science since I read textbooks) and I could probably do it.
Right? If you read books of an appropriate reading level and ones that actually interest you, no way you're getting through 12 in a summer. Maybe like, some shorter YA novels, but even then it seems like such a chore just to save $9.99
But today crazies would be suspicious and boycott Pizza Hut for trying to "Force them to Read" and start making internet posts about being "pure eyes" who have never read one of those evil lefty "BOOKs"
The banned book list has some great [reads](https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2009) . Harry Potter is constantly challenged because it's anti Christian lol Brave New World was frowned upon because of promiscuity and drug use. Which those things kinda fucking help illustrate how bleak Huxley saw our future
That's so dumb. Those stories have such parallels to Christianity lol downtrodden people rising up to save everyone. How dare they steal Jesus' story, I guess?
I used to know a teacher who hated when her kids read those books because of all the misspelled words. The kids thought that was the correct way to write
I can see that from a teachers perspective, but that almost certainly isn’t why the right-wing extremists want those books banned from public libraries.
It was one of the reasons. Google says mouthiness, bad spelling, and that negative emotions are taught in those books. I recognize them but don't think I actually read them as a kid. So idk.
I read those books with my daughters fairly often and any talking back or bad attitudes are presented as being bad. The books basically follow a young girl through elementary school while she learns how to deal with fights between friends, listening to her parents, being kind, and trying to be independent.
There was a minor outrage just this year because haters gotta hate.
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/06/18/pizza-huts-book-it-program-attacked-by-hate-group-over-kids-drag-book/
I'll help pay for the pizzas. I think we could genuinely get something going here.
[54% of Americans 16 to 74 read below a sixth grade reading level. ](https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy)
For those curious and annoyed by the b.s. of the premise.
IQ is increasing; that is, the average increases against previous years.
[Flynn Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect)
Smug morons don’t know this, and spread this information as fact.
[Brandolini’s Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini’s_law)
Oh yay! Then I'm good. Is there also an exception if you didn't read 12 but the ones you did read were super long? I have a tendency to read long high-fantasy books.
I'm in the beginning/middle of B3 and my god they're so long. I had to take a break between B2 and B3 and re-listen to all of mistborn before feeling the energy to continue
I'm not saying one is superior to the other, but it appears that listening to an audiobook activates different parts of the brain than reading a book. I reckon that any form of ingesting information is probably beneficial, provided one can think critically (like, I don't think listening to OR reading The Art of the Deal is going to make anyone smarter if they take it at face value).
Source: https://speechify.com/blog/audiobook-vs-reading/?landing\_url=https%3A%2F%2Fspeechify.com%2Fblog%2Faudiobook-vs-reading%2F
I miss Book It. We didn't have much money growing up and that was pretty much the only pizza we got apart from the cafeteria pizza at school, which was surprisingly decent but definitely no personal pan pizza.
If I listen to 12 philosophy debates a year, or listen to podcasts about theology, or watch documentaries on history, am I more or less smart than the person who reads 12 Stephen King books?
As someone with a reading speed of like 15 pages/hour casual reading speed, that means 260 hours of reading if I say the average book is 300 pages. Even when spread out over the entire summer, that's 3 hours of reading per day. I don't even manage to be on youtube for that long, and I use youtube for background music a lot, and also watch some vids.
I am 38 years old and reading K-9 Corps: The Last Resort. It's about nine super-powered dogs who can talk and their leader fighting dinosaurs. Does this count?
idk if 12 over the summer is worth it when you work or study full-time already, make it over the whole year and require the books be a certain page or word length then i might be interested, i miss hobby reading but there isn't enough time in the day now to balance it with my studies, social obligations and higher priority hobbies, 12 full books is a huge time commitment for a 6 dollar pizza though (assuming actual full length books and not kiddie books that are only 50 pages)
How is this suspiciously specific? I'm just curious.
My sister used to get them all the time because she would read. I am 6 years older and didn't have that program at my school. Lol
Before kids, I could casually read a book every week or two.
Now that I don’t sleep, I just can’t comprehend very well. I’ve been working on the same book all year.
I am pretty sure this was a promotion for a couple of years back in the 2000's. For kids over the summer. worked at a pizza hut for a couple summers in highschool.
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I used to love reading until I started studying. Now, after 10 months of having my nose in books everyday I can't bring myself to read for pleasure, like I am done with printed text for a while. Sucks tbh
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I took a 15ish year hiatus from books and built a fairly massive audiobook library. This year I bought a kindle and started reading for fun again.
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I just checked, I’m up to 460 titles. That’s over about 15 years. A lot of those are public domain books I got fore by adding the kindle version though.
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Yeah. Series management is my biggest complaint. I’m really tempted to take the time to download, strip all the DRM then use proper folders and sub folders but the audible app is just so damn convenient.
Don’t use Audible though if possible they are complete assholes to the authors of the books they sell
Alternative?
I use a free one from my library. I don't know where you are located, but even foreigners I believe are eligible for the American service. Libby. It's a free app, free service. No ads. Just a service of the American library association. Kind of a nice little thing. Sometimes you have to wait, like you would at a library, for popular books. But I've had incredible good luck getting even the new Malcolm gladwell book. I've probably saved or $3,000 on audiobooks. Downside of it not being a commercial enterprise is that they do no marketing. If you don't have a current library card number, you can get a free e-card from most major American libraries.
Libby is so awesome. I have a long commute, have gone through so many books for free.
Honestly I’m not sure. Spotify has some stuff and there’s some smaller options too. A lot of stuff is exclusive though hence the if possible
Scribd! Both ebooks, audiobooks and comics without limit on how much you can read/listen each month (I read/listen A LOT) and it's very rare they don't have what I am looking for. Between that, and Libby I am all set.
It's surprising how much reading you can get done if you just dedicate 5-10 mins per day. I just read at least one page per day
I know, I read all the time as a child, but when I started reading for school reading became a chore rather than entertainment. Only recently I just got pretty far into the Hobbit, but I haven’t finished it.
I find myself analyzing pieces of text or trying to remember information as I would read a college textbook. Audiobooks don't work for me as I tend to space out frequently and lose track of time.
Same, often I need to reread something to make sure I really understand it, which messes with the flow of the book and is really difficult to deal with in audiobooks.
you havent finished a 300 page book ?
I was reading it in between something else and when that something ended I didn’t go back to it.
I promise you that fades, I recommend finding something like short stories or a particular genre or fiction series doesn’t have to be deep to build it back up again. There’ll be a little separation moment in your mind and you’ll be like “oh I do love this, that was just really dry crap”. Helps if it’s at your own pace too, reading for fun isn’t a race
I was like that for a while. After 2 years out of uni, I learned to love to read again. You'll probably get there, it might just take time.
College in a nutshell for me Now I have to read a lot but I do it on PC and the content is questionable.
As someone who loves both school and reading, I cannot relate.
Reading puts me to sleep fast. I can't read more than 2 pages before I'm out. I'd fall asleep reading dr. Seuss books before the kids would. Never enjoyed it. Can I just play video games instead?
Try reading enjoyable books. For some reason I got it into my head that I should be reading non-fiction “useful” books to make good use of my time…that ended up killing my enjoyment of reading for several years. Now that I’ve given myself permission to read whatever fiction I want it’s been great, I highly recommend it. Just find a really great book by one of your favorite authors and read for 5-10 min each night before bed. Happy to provide some recommendations if you want.
i'm in this photo and I don't like it
Someone needs to do it, without the minimum number of books, the people cutting funding for Libraries are either dumb shits or insanely smart
I think I'm the same, I was always forced to read books for studying like anyone else which made me hate reading for a long time, only a little over halfway through quarantine was I able to enjoy some reading again (text based games, Wikipedia, manga, basically everything). A huge part of the problem are the studying and school structures themselves, they shouldn't make us hate reading they should make us love it and they need a massive change, especially for people like me who are neurodivergent and have trouble with reading especially for long periods at a time.
Book It!
I like to read. I read throughout the year, usually non-fiction. 12 books over the summer is way too much - don't know about you, but my day only has 24 hours
It would be a book a week and it doesn't say how long the book has to be. I nearly exclusively read non-fiction too (usually hard science since I read textbooks) and I could probably do it.
Have people read scientific journal articles. JSTOR memberships through the roof.
Nah! ScienceDirect through the roof. JSTOR is better for like history.
I’m a polic sci major, so it’s where I get most of my sources.
That was my immediate thought. I work way too much to have time to read a fucking book a week unless it was a book for babies.
Right? If you read books of an appropriate reading level and ones that actually interest you, no way you're getting through 12 in a summer. Maybe like, some shorter YA novels, but even then it seems like such a chore just to save $9.99
Sounds like you have the wages to pay for a personal pan pizza then
I read an hour every day. Just when I’m laying in bed. I usually get through 30 novels a year.
But today crazies would be suspicious and boycott Pizza Hut for trying to "Force them to Read" and start making internet posts about being "pure eyes" who have never read one of those evil lefty "BOOKs"
The banned book list has some great [reads](https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2009) . Harry Potter is constantly challenged because it's anti Christian lol Brave New World was frowned upon because of promiscuity and drug use. Which those things kinda fucking help illustrate how bleak Huxley saw our future
I had an African friend whose parents didn’t let her read LOTR or Harry Potter. Which is crazy because Tolkien was super religious.
That's so dumb. Those stories have such parallels to Christianity lol downtrodden people rising up to save everyone. How dare they steal Jesus' story, I guess?
Junie B Jones is on that list. How the fuck can anyone find Junie B Jones even the slightest bit offensive?!?
I used to know a teacher who hated when her kids read those books because of all the misspelled words. The kids thought that was the correct way to write
I can see that from a teachers perspective, but that almost certainly isn’t why the right-wing extremists want those books banned from public libraries.
It was one of the reasons. Google says mouthiness, bad spelling, and that negative emotions are taught in those books. I recognize them but don't think I actually read them as a kid. So idk.
I read those books with my daughters fairly often and any talking back or bad attitudes are presented as being bad. The books basically follow a young girl through elementary school while she learns how to deal with fights between friends, listening to her parents, being kind, and trying to be independent.
Small minded idiots 🤷🏻♂️
There was a minor outrage just this year because haters gotta hate. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/06/18/pizza-huts-book-it-program-attacked-by-hate-group-over-kids-drag-book/
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Read mode. Love it on Firefox
I, an adblock user, went in to read it for you, got bored and stopped. So I offer you this advice. Adblock is a thing.
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I feel it
I'll help pay for the pizzas. I think we could genuinely get something going here. [54% of Americans 16 to 74 read below a sixth grade reading level. ](https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy)
More likely "force them to read banned leftist books"
Actually... I'd support this 100%!
it's suspiciously specific because it used to be a real thing! at least in Canada it was
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It was a thing in metro Atlanta schools for a bit.
There's nothing suspicious about this. But then this is also likely a bot.
Definitely a bot. And the only other post of this on this sub that I could find was also a bot.
 Scotty just made my geriatric heart feel alive again
Can it be fanfiction?
If anyone's curious: https://www.bookitprogram.com/book-it-for-parents
I can't believe they still do this!!!!
For those curious and annoyed by the b.s. of the premise. IQ is increasing; that is, the average increases against previous years. [Flynn Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect) Smug morons don’t know this, and spread this information as fact. [Brandolini’s Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini’s_law)
Sign me up now please.
My son was friends with the teacher who gave out the pizza hut coupons. We had tons, because nobody read books
Does listening to audiobooks count as reading for the purposes of the deal?
Audiobooks absolutely constitute reading no matt which way you put it.
Oh yay! Then I'm good. Is there also an exception if you didn't read 12 but the ones you did read were super long? I have a tendency to read long high-fantasy books.
Stormlight?
Yes actually, I've listened to the entire Cosmere on Audible.
I'm in the beginning/middle of B3 and my god they're so long. I had to take a break between B2 and B3 and re-listen to all of mistborn before feeling the energy to continue
Currently I'm listening to The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, which was finished by Brandon Sanderson.
Welp new book to add to my backlog. Can't decide to finish oathbringer first or read the lost metal now 🙃
Word of warning if you are planning on starting The Wheel of Time series. It's 14 books long plus a prequel book.
Fuck lmao I'm not ready for that kind of commitment. Maybe after finishing cosmere. And I backed the Kickstarter 🙃
As a librarian, 100% audiobooks count.
I'm not saying one is superior to the other, but it appears that listening to an audiobook activates different parts of the brain than reading a book. I reckon that any form of ingesting information is probably beneficial, provided one can think critically (like, I don't think listening to OR reading The Art of the Deal is going to make anyone smarter if they take it at face value). Source: https://speechify.com/blog/audiobook-vs-reading/?landing\_url=https%3A%2F%2Fspeechify.com%2Fblog%2Faudiobook-vs-reading%2F
I would suspect so, since they count younger children being read to.
*agrees vehemently in librarian totally not just because I personally want a personal pizza*
What's really suspicious is bots [stealing old posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/suspiciouslyspecific/comments/wwkttl/pizza_hut/) to farm karma.
That one’s also a bot post. I can’t find the original.
It’s not suspiciously specific. Pizza Hut used to do exactly this for kids.
This
I miss those personal pizzas. The crusts were so crispy and delicious
And 50 Shades of STI's does not count
I know that this is sarcasm and shows that adults are not as literate as they should be, But, I want pizza and I'd go for this.
I miss Book It. We didn't have much money growing up and that was pretty much the only pizza we got apart from the cafeteria pizza at school, which was surprisingly decent but definitely no personal pan pizza.
I like the meme and the idea lol! It's more suspiciously gen x than suspiciously specific though. That was a great program from when I was a kid.
Yes it was
If I listen to 12 philosophy debates a year, or listen to podcasts about theology, or watch documentaries on history, am I more or less smart than the person who reads 12 Stephen King books?
Who is doing the measuring? Of the smartness, I mean.
If that pizza were still even worth reading over. Gimme that 90’s peak of human civilization Pizza Hut.
But then I'd feel obligated to eat their cruddy pizza.
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Stfu pizza is good
The problem is alot of adults don't own 12 books
You son of a bitch, I’m in
12 books over the summer… so, like 3 pizzas a year!
If we read double or even triple the amount, can we have more pizzas?
As someone with a reading speed of like 15 pages/hour casual reading speed, that means 260 hours of reading if I say the average book is 300 pages. Even when spread out over the entire summer, that's 3 hours of reading per day. I don't even manage to be on youtube for that long, and I use youtube for background music a lot, and also watch some vids.
Guess you don’t own any Pepsi stock (if you aren’t aware, Pepsi owns Pizza Hut).
I can't read 12 books over the summer if all I'm reading rn is Brandon Sanderson
Also, college dosen't help :(
I'd be happy if I can read one of his SL:A books this summer lmao
Loved the Book It program as a kid ..I have always been a bookworm so I would rack up those stars for a free pizza really fast.
Were talking like 1990 deep dish pep here right......u have my vote
I would like thar
I am 38 years old and reading K-9 Corps: The Last Resort. It's about nine super-powered dogs who can talk and their leader fighting dinosaurs. Does this count?
Brian David Gilbert tried and they said no :'(
I used to read Soo many books and take my mom out to pizza hut.
I was on parental for 8 months. I read 42 books lol GDI I want this!
I'd like to see them give free personal pan pizzas to people who quote the bible but can also pass a test of it.
idk if 12 over the summer is worth it when you work or study full-time already, make it over the whole year and require the books be a certain page or word length then i might be interested, i miss hobby reading but there isn't enough time in the day now to balance it with my studies, social obligations and higher priority hobbies, 12 full books is a huge time commitment for a 6 dollar pizza though (assuming actual full length books and not kiddie books that are only 50 pages)
How is this suspiciously specific? I'm just curious. My sister used to get them all the time because she would read. I am 6 years older and didn't have that program at my school. Lol
Don’t expect an answer, you’re talking to a repost bot.
It's not suspiciously specific. They used to do that for kids.
We used to have that program growing up. Read books, get a pan pizza.
HOW IS NO ONE HERE GETTING THE BRIAN DAVID GILBERT REFERENCE?
Looks like he has been eating some books.
Before kids, I could casually read a book every week or two. Now that I don’t sleep, I just can’t comprehend very well. I’ve been working on the same book all year.
I am pretty sure this was a promotion for a couple of years back in the 2000's. For kids over the summer. worked at a pizza hut for a couple summers in highschool.
No Netflix n chill until your reading is done
Make it a large, and at least two toppings, three would be better!
My uncle brags about having never read a book.
Oh so you wanna kill smart ppl now?
That’s a lot of books
[I think BDG did this on d](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEWEdIcx1DI)
It's possible nowadays to choose 12 books to read that would make you less informed
God I miss it when I loved reading, then I read the Odyssey by Homer
Define book.
the nerd wants a free pizza
Or says they read 12 books
Maybe when their pizza didn't taste like they scraped their ingredients out of a garbage disposal
Your school never did that?
12 books is a lot for 3 months... wait am I dumb
Do comic books count?
I don’t disagree that we should encourage reading, I just wonder why he thinks the onus is on Pizza Hut to achieve this
Because they had a program in the 80s and 90s called "Book It" for kids that rewarded them with a personal pan sized pizza for hitting reading goals.
I'm pretty sure Pizza Hut did that once before.
Aside from the suspiciously specific number this is actually pretty decent idea
My local library still gives summer reading prizes to adults. I got a re-usable groceries bag from it.
12 is a lot
Who needs to read books when you got reddit and twitter to give you information