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No special meaning at all. I recently realized I almost crossed this number, so I thought to share what I learned. I'm not proud of the number of books I've re
by 300 10y ago
No special meaning at all. I recently realized I almost crossed this number, so I thought to share what I learned.
I'm not proud of the number of books I've read. Actually, I would prefer that I've read less books, but that I've read more times the best ones (in my opinion).
- TeMPOraL 10y agoExploration vs exploitation :). It's hard to judge well. Were you to read 30 books 10 times each, you'd probably wonder if you couldn't read more different books instead ;). I wonder what the perfect number is. For non-fiction, I guess you'll hit diminishing returns with most books in something like 5 iterations. But then again, I want to take a following challenge: pick one good fiction book, and read it 100 times. I've read (in Adler's "How to Read a Book", I think) that the way you understand and feel about a piece of writing will change profoundly after so many read-throughs.