Sprachprofi wrote: I could never imagine reading "a page a day" of each language because that interrupts any narrative arc and makes reading a chore.
Exactly!!! It is disruptive, and it is imho one of the top reasons behind many intermediate learners giving up on reading. They hear the well meant "a little bit every day" advice, suffer into the "shock" phase of their brain getting used to facing a foreign text every day, but never give themselves enough time to get through it and really dive into a story.
So my reading is pretty wild and unsystematic. A lot of English because I need to read the latest books on politics/economics as soon as they come out. A lot of target language reading because it feels more productive - I can file that time under "reading time" AND "foreign language time".
YES!
The asap issue is a real one. But other than that, I often value the double filing more than reading in original. If I could get foreign translations of Czech fantasy authors, I would read those too probably
jimmy wrote:these days, I read the books only from my desktop in .pdf forms.
I would love to read much more .epub books, especially with Readlang. But Geoblocking is a huge problem. What I want is often not findable on pirate sites, and I am not allowed to just buy it Geoblocking should really be outlawed just like other forms of discrimination, for start at least within the EU.
But even though I crave digital books and readlang, I still get the most pleasure from paper. Yeah, I am too lazy to look up stuff, note it, put it to anki, from a paper book. But it is the medium that gets me the easily drawn into the content.