The great joy of immersion in one particular story is that it stops you thinking about time and how to spend it. I recently counted the books in the Tower of Doom, estimated how long it would take to read them all, calculated this against my available reading hours on an average day, and concluded that the only realistic solution was to get sent to jail, where I might be able to fit in some regular exercise too. Perhaps I could read faster. President Theodore Roosevelt allegedly finished up to three books a day, advising his son: "The wise thing to do is simply to skip the vulgar words and untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. " This is good advice for anyone who considers watching all six seasons of Lost, but it also makes the process more similar to data processing than actual enjoyment.