DrCrowTStarwars said:

If listening to audio books counts as reading then I am in the 1%.

I just find it easier these days because I am busy and I can listen to the books while I work on something else.

When I was a kid I used to read for hours every day because I had the free time. I remember I once read Casino Royal in a single afternoon without getting up once to use the bathroom. My bladder was screaming at the end but I couldn't put it down, that is good writing.

I miss having the time to do that these days.

Yeah, me too, although a lot of it has to do with the way I manage my time. I have the time to read, but I spend a lot of it learning languages, reading articles and forums on the Internet, and pursuing other interests like photography.

There have been times that I had seventy books on the go all at once and was able to keep them straight in my head. Right now, I still have over thirty I'm trying to finish, some of which I've been reading for three years...which was when I was still able to read for four hours a day.

When I was in early elementary school, I homeschooled, and only for two hours a day. The rest of the day I spent reading. I ended up knowing more in just about every subject than the rest of my classmates when I started regular school, despite having only done math, a bit of music, religion, and a little bit of language arts as part of my structured homeschooling.