I heard about the fifty-pages test after the age of fifty. The formula, somewhat like how runners calculate the maximum heart rate by "220 minus your age", is dubbed Nancy Pearl's formula.
Known as "America's Librarian", Nancy Pearl coined the Rule of 50, which has served as a handy blueprint for readers. She says we should give a book fifty pages. If you like what you're reading, keep going. If you don't, set it aside and quit.
But if you're over the age of fifty, take your age and subtract it from a hundred. The result is the number of pages you should read before deciding to move on. So, if you're seventy, give the book thirty pages.
"Life is too short to waste on reading a book you're not enjoying," argues Nancy Pearl. If I have to explain her formula, it would be that after the age of fifty, we should have been more keen-eyed and sharp-eared. So much so, we know how to find the right book that matches us within the first few pages.
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