• Skip to main content
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer

The Steve Laube Agency

Helping to Change the World…Word by Word

The Steve Laube Agency

The Steve Laube Agency

Helping to Change the World Word by Word

  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Interview with Steve Laube
    • Statement of Faith
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
  • Guidelines
  • Authors
    • Who We Represent
    • Awards and Recognition
  • Resources
    • Recommended Reading
    • Christian Writers Market Guide Online
    • Christian Writers Institute
    • Writers Conferences
    • Freelance Editorial Services
    • Copyright Resources
    • Research Tools
    • Selling What You Write
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Twitter
  • FaceBook
  • RSS Feed
  • Get Published
  • Book Proposals
  • Book Business
  • Writing Craft
    • Conferences
    • Copyright
    • Craft
    • Creativity
    • Grammar
  • Fun Fridays
Home » Reading

Reading

Binge Watching versus Binge Reading

By Steve Laubeon April 14, 2025
Share
Tweet
22

A lot of people take advantage of their entertainment streaming services to binge-watch multiple episodes of a particular TV show in one sitting.

How long would it take to spend the same amount of time reading … the Bible?

A few years ago, Crossway.org published an article titled “You Have More Time for Bible Reading Than You Think.” The results are rather interesting. (The chart below is from that article.)

To binge-watch all five seasons of Breaking Bad (I do not recommend you do!) would take 62 hours. On the other hand, if you don’t binge-watch, but “only” watch TV 30 minutes a day, you are still sitting there for 182 hours a year.

According to the chart below, reading the entire Bible would take an average reader 74.5 hours. Think about that for a moment.

If you read daily for 30 minutes at a slower speed of 170 words per minute (half a page), that is about 5,000 words or 16+ pages. At that rate per day, in one year, you could read the Bible (about 750,000 words) and still have 215 days left in the year.

Thirty minutes a day, at a rate of 170 words per minute, allows you to read 1.8 million words in 365 days. To make yourself feel very guilty, the site How Long to Read calculates the time to read any of the thousands of books in their database. Then compare that to the chart below.

The point is that you can be reading the most important book of them all, every day, and still have time left over for the rest!

In other words, be wary of binge-watching! The time spent could be time better spent.

 

 

Leave a Comment
Category: Reading

My Best Reading Advice

By Bob Hostetleron October 16, 2024
Share
Tweet
11

My wife and I, newly married and preparing to enter training for ministry, hosted a seasoned pastor in our home for one of our entrance interviews. He asked what sorts of books we’d been reading, and we answered. I expected him to be impressed with my answer. After all … well, never mind. But he smiled kindly. “May I offer a piece of advice?” What were we going to say? “No”? So we gave the …

Read moreMy Best Reading Advice
Category: Book Review, Career, Encouragement, Inspiration, Reading

What Did You Read This Summer?

By Steve Laubeon September 9, 2024
Share
Tweet
20

In 1957 H. L. Mencken coined a new word to describe a group of people that he called the bibliobibuli, which means “people who read too much.” (From the Greek “biblio,” meaning books, and the Latin “bibulous,” from “bibere,” to drink.) But how much is too much? And who decides that? I happen to believe that there is always room for more. I was once …

Read moreWhat Did You Read This Summer?
Category: Book Review, ReadingTag: Book Review, Reading

What Is the Oldest Book in Your Library?

By Steve Laubeon May 13, 2024
Share
Tweet
34

I love books, especially old or rare ones. Back in college I spent a couple months working in the back room of the university library repairing their rare book collection. I’ll never forget the awe of holding a copy of a book by Theodore Beza, a student of John Calvin, dated in the 1600s. I also recall one summer in Washington D.C. around the now-defunct CBA booksellers convention when a …

Read moreWhat Is the Oldest Book in Your Library?
Category: Personal, ReadingTag: old books

April Tool’s Day

By Steve Laubeon April 1, 2024
Share
Tweet
20

I decided not to try and trick you on April Fool’s Day with something like “Steve Laube buys yet another shiny industry business. This time he bought the entire out-of-print catalogs from Nomas Telson, Zyndale, and Tondervan. Included in the purchase was the New International Christian Standard Living Message Bible (NICSLMB).” Instead, I thought about which reference book I use …

Read moreApril Tool’s Day
Category: Book Review, Craft, Creativity, Personal, Reading, Steve, Writing CraftTag: Book Review, Craft, Creativity

Thematic Reading Brings Dramatic Results

By Bob Hostetleron October 5, 2023
Share
Tweet
13

Years ago, I stumbled on an idea that has greatly enriched my reading: thematic reading. That is, each year I’ll choose a handful of books to read that are related in some way (topic, character, setting, etc.). One year, I read two classic novels back-to-back, which were fascinating to compare and contrast: Jane Eyre (Bronte) and Rebecca (du Maurier). Another time, I re-read a personal …

Read moreThematic Reading Brings Dramatic Results
Category: Reading

Be a Re-Reader

By Bob Hostetleron July 18, 2023
Share
Tweet
14

Maybe you’ve heard of C. S. Lewis. Some people consider him to have been a fairly smart man. A literary superhero, even, who once wrote, “An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. …

Read moreBe a Re-Reader
Category: Encouragement, Inspiration, Personal, Reading, The Writing Life

Just the Facts

By Dan Balowon August 17, 2022
Share
Tweet
16

With the omnipresence of social media and other ways for people to directly express opinions, Christian writers should take extra care to be aware of the facts when it comes to both theology and society. Since Christians actually believe there is truth and it is knowable, Christian writers should be a lot more like classic journalists, researching, studying, and reporting truth, rather than simply …

Read moreJust the Facts
Category: Reading, The Writing Life, Trends

21 Influential Books

By Steve Laubeon July 18, 2022
Share
Tweet
25

There is a shelf in our living room where I have placed the books that had the most influence on my spiritual growth. I call them my “Punctuation Marks” because in a metaphoric way some books were a comma, some an exclamation point, and some a period or full stop. The beauty of having them all in one place is the visual reminder of those moments when God reached out through the pages of creative …

Read more21 Influential Books
Category: Personal, Reading, TheologyTag: Books, Reading

What Do You Read to Stay Informed?

By Steve Laubeon June 20, 2022
Share
Tweet
11

I am occasionally asked to list the magazines, newsletters, and blogs I read to stay informed about our industry. It is a good question. But when I started compiling the list, I realized how ridiculously long it is. Therefore, I can only list selected highlights by type of media. Lest you get the wrong impression, realize I’m an eclectic reader who skims the surface of the waters gleaning …

Read moreWhat Do You Read to Stay Informed?
Category: Book Business, Reading, TrendsTag: Informed, Reading
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 7
  • Next
  • Home
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Interview with Steve Laube
    • Statement of Faith
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
  • Guidelines
  • Authors
    • Who We Represent
    • Awards and Recognition
  • Resources
    • Recommended Reading
    • Christian Writers Market Guide Online
    • Christian Writers Institute
    • Writers Conferences
    • Freelance Editorial Services
    • Copyright Resources
    • Research Tools
    • Selling What You Write
  • Blog
  • Contact

Copyright © 2025 · The Steve Laube Agency · All Rights Reserved · Website by Stormhill Media