Reading Challenge - Video game hours translated to pages/hours of reading

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 I need to finish Pride and Prejudice. I'm fully aware that I need to finish this book before I start reading another book. In that spirit, I am translating my videogame time for one week into reading time the next week. 



The Video Game Challenge is basically tracking your time spent gaming for one week. I then translate one hour into a number of pages, or read for that amount of time, the next week. I have a set goal of hours or pages for the week after I tracked my gaming. This might push me to finish Pride and Prejudice, or at least get me past a good chunk of it. 

As for the number of pages per hour of gaming, I've decided on 20 pages per hour. Knowing my habits, especially after-work gaming, it'll add up to a good amount of pages by the end of the week. I also spend a lot of time playing Moonstone Island and gaming on the weekends. This challenge was inspired by Haley Pham (Haley Pham - YouTube) reading pages based on her notifications (of which I have few). Gaming hours, on the other hand, are plentiful. Moonstone Island is kind of addicting and I limit myself to make sure I get my adult stuff done. 

How The Challenge Went

I racked up 260 pages of gaming time. Basically, one week of video games gave me a lot of pages to read, which was my hope. Pride and Prejudice is a big book, 700 pages on my e-reader, so I need the push to get farther. I'm enjoying it, but I'm also procrastinating. This might make me read past my 260 page goal. I'll do this again if it works. 

four days into the week and many pages later, I'm at 74 percent read in my e-reader. This was the goal. I made a sizable dent in Pride and Prejudice. This is more than I've done in two weeks. I'm proud of myself for sitting down to get farther into it. It didn't take all that long. 74 percent is a big jump from 35 percent (where I started my journey).

I might do it again. It worked. It forced me to open the book and enjoy it. I can also get that review posted sooner than later. This was worth my time. I even have an extra three days and exceeded my goal by a few pages. This is effective. I'll do it again when I'm in a gaming mood. 

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