How much time is needed to read 1 chess book

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nikoBelic143

Standart book with like 400 pages, 150 games with deviations. I can play though deviations blindfold in depth of 5-6 moves. But most content I can only read with a board.

Here word" read" means get most important data from the book.

Books with text only I sometimes read with speed of 100 pages per day. But chess books like 10 times slower

This slow reading speed feels like too much time spent just for game.

nikoBelic143

Books I selected to read are:

1. Averbakh, Suetin. Chess manual. As main book to read.

2. Gufeld. Dragon

3. Gufeld. Kings indian

4. Sveshnikov sicilian 5. E5

5. Karpov. Queens gambit.

6. Sozin Fisher variation book

7. Catalonian opening by Balogan

Suetin. Spanish game.  as an extra maybe latter

Some books recomended by many strong players i rejected. Nimzowich "my system" garbage for instance

heine-borel

You need to read books on a high quality basis. 

One GM took 3 years to read a single book, and raised his rating from 2500 to 2600. (According to GM Smirnov). 

Instead of reading all these books quickly, you should focus heavily on a single book for a long time, and deeply understand this book. "My System" is the best book. Get rid of the others for now. 

heine-borel

"Some books recomended by many strong players i rejected." 

I hope you like your current rating, because if you don't listen to stronger players' recommendations, it'll be that for your entire life.

dfgh123

started reading "learn chess tactics" by john nunn in february 2011 and have just finished it