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15 pages a day turns you into a reader of 40+ books a year

Mark Frauenfelder
Apr 13, 2026
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Jake Worth, a programmer who went from a non-reader to 44 books last year, credits one rule above everything else: read at least 15 pages every day. That’s it. — 15 pages. The minimum keeps momentum going, keeps the story alive in his head, and makes it harder to abandon a book by putting it down for a week.

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