Does Bill Gates listen to audiobooks?

Does Bill Gates listen to audiobooks?

Instead, an impressive 86 percent claimed they read — but not just for fun. What's more, 63 percent indicated they listened to audiobooks during their morning commute. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and Jack Ma are all voracious readers.

What to do when you finish reading a book?

If you read a book a month, you will be reading 12 books in a year. It's quite easy to finish reading a book in a month. One month is equal to 30 days or 4.5 weeks, which is plenty of time to read a book. If you read interesting material, you will be a lot more likely to finish reading the book quickly.

How do you read a book a day?

How long does it take to read 100 pages? If the average page has 250–300 words, then the word count for a 100-page book totals 25,000–30,000. By reading 300 words per minute, it will take you 83–100 minutes to read this book.

How fast can you read a book?

Originally Answered: How fast can a person read? An average reader: 200–300 words per minute. With basic training: 600 – 800 words per minute. Fully trained, for most kind of reading: 800- 1,200 words per minute.

Does reading make you smarter?

Not only does regular reading help make you smarter, but it can also actually increase your brain power. Just like going for a jog exercises your cardiovascular system, reading regularly improves memory function by giving your brain a good workout.

How do you read 500 pages in a week?

Twenty-five-year-old women, for example, have 61 years left to live according to the Social Security Life Expectancy Calculator. Assuming they live that long, average readers in that group have 732 more books to read in their lifetimes. "Average" in this case means people who read 12 books per year.

When should you stop reading books?

If you're fifty years of age or younger, give a book fifty pages before you decide to commit to reading it or give it up. If you're over fifty, which is when time gets even shorter, subtract your age from 100—the result is the number of pages you should read before making your decision to stay with it or quit.

Is reading 100 pages an hour fast?

But some people I know, they read 100 pages an hour, or more, without forcing. Statistical average is 55 to 65 pages an hour though.