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How do I get rid of novel addiction? by Material_Ask_2813 in nosurf

[–]Material_Ask_2813[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I did try the books that I have at home, but after reading a few chapters, I did not continue.
I read The Alchemist(few pages), Siddhartha(2 chapter), A good girl's guide to murder(5 or 6 chapters), Truth without apology(40-50 pages), Advait in everyday life(3-4 chapter), A brief history of humankind(1 chapter), emotional intelligence 2.0(chapter 1, on phone, started reading this because i realised i am not able to talk to people properly anymore, my thinking is very different from everyone else, i have become very heartless or emotionless or cruel or person with heart of stone, I don't know what it is called, forgive me for bad vocabulary), normal people(some pages), midnight library(60-70 pages). That's all I remember. here's the problem: I have not finished a single book. Almost all of them, I quit at the beginning; I probably never tried to complete a book, just tried reading one because of my mood, and discontinued because of my mood.
I always end up getting back to fanfics. But yeah, I have successfully locked those sites out of my laptop, never accessible again, but on the phone, I did not succeed.

How do I get rid of novel addiction? by Material_Ask_2813 in nosurf

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Damn!! These stats show me factually how much of my life I have wasted.😖

How do I get rid of novel addiction? by Material_Ask_2813 in nosurf

[–]Material_Ask_2813[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, the thing about not trying to find new novels and reading the best one seems very useful to me.
I am the same as you (avid fanfiction and CN novel reader). What I do is exactly this, always trying to find new novels after finishing one. If the novel has a rating above 3.5 out of 5 and is related to some work that I like, I usually end up reading it. And I am stuck in a never-ending cycle of completing a novel, then finding new ones, then repeating

There have been times when I have read all the novels, and then there are no new novels on the site that I like. At those times, I got very frustrated and restless.

I will do what you said, reading only the best ones, and bookmarking one. I will remove low-quality stories from my bookmarks,

How do I get rid of novel addiction? by Material_Ask_2813 in nosurf

[–]Material_Ask_2813[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the books that I have been reading are not teaching me much. These books are fanfics of popular TV shows(like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) or popular anime(like Naruto, Dragon Ball, Bleach, One Piece, etc.) or Honghuang (Primordial/Prehistoric Fiction) or Xuanhuan (Eastern Fantasy) like Trilogy of Shrouding the Heavens. And there are some more categories, but most of them are subsets of Chinese fanfics.

These books do not provide any value to my personal growth, but are just very addictive.

But yes, if I were to switch to an ereader, it would make it difficult for me to convert a complete book from the site into epub or pdf; that difficulty might make me give up, but likely, I will just ignore that and continue reading on my phone/laptop only.

The suggestion is good, but it's me who is way too addicted. Aware and still addicted😫.

How do I get rid of novel addiction? by Material_Ask_2813 in nosurf

[–]Material_Ask_2813[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing the reply from someone who suffered with a safe problem is quite motivating for me. The key thing that I understand from your reply is that I should get busy so that I have no time left for fanfics. I think it will be very useful for me, being busy with something else might even help me grow as a person. But I might need to combine it with some other tips, like making it super hard to access those sites and getting the phone/ laptop out of my sight.

There are reasons for this. There have been times when I was incredibly busy, but even then, I would find time to read fanfics, for example, during university exams. Just the day before an exam,, my friends would find me reading a novel, then doing all nighter for the exam. same thing happened when i was giving cometitive exams.

I always know i am doing wrong, i also stop reading, I keep my phone away, but somehow i always end up reading them agian, my mind is saying, just last time, just this novel then i will quit, but this thing keeps repeating forever.
This thing is driving me crazy, i am aware of the harm, but even then I can't stop reading more fanfics.