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How I Read 1000 Books a Year by Reading Multiple Tiny Books per Day

Max N
4 min readMar 16, 2020

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Do you want to know how do people read hundreds of books per year? Want to be able to brag about your reading challenge numbers on Goodreads? Don't worry. The secret is not about reading speed. It’s about tiny books. Really. Tiny. Books.

That’s how I managed to read 1000 books last year. I don’t have time to read Homer’s Illiad and Beowulf all in one day. Instead, I read something called a tiny book. Tiny books are small 3x2in books that condense every novel in the world down to ten-pages. Literally. Want to read a book that is 253-pages long? A tiny book condenses all the words of that book down to only ten pages.

Mr. Elroy Magnusson and his tiny book. Note the unreadable text on these books.

The creator of the tiny books, Elroy Magnusson, mentions that when reading a tiny book, the text is so small you won’t be able to read it. The text looks like thin condensed lines. The lines are actually words. The font size varies for each book and may range from 0.0000000000003px to 0.0000000000012px big.

You are probably wondering how the hell are you supposed to read lines? Elroy says you don’t read the book, you place the tiny book on your forehead for 2 minutes per page. The book sends the text…

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