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Ask HN: How do you squeeze in enough time for book reading?
Work is busy: dev, meeting, troubleshooting, various pings, email, chats, ...
Life is busy: kids, wife/husband, house, car, shopping, eating, fun, ...
Are you able to read books, not on vacation, but during weekdays? If yes, how do you get time?
- smt88 9y agoAudio books whenever I'm cooking, cleaning, driving, or exercising
- curiousgal 9y agoI can no longer fall asleep without listening to an audiobook. Currently listening to HPatMoR.
- roryisok 9y agoOne trick is I try not to bring my phone to bed with me. Then last thing at night, first thing in the morning I have time to read
- foobarbazetc 9y agoRead in bed instead of going on your phone.
- jgrahamc 9y agoFor me it's during my commute. I take public transport and read on it.
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- xxdesmus 9y agoI'd love to figure this out also. I'm stuck ready stuff for work during the entire commute just to (barely) stay on top of the latest news. I can't find time to read a real book, and it is frustrating as hell.
- dglass 9y agoI had this problem. Super busy during the day at work, I drive to work so I can't read during my commute, etc. I ended up buying a kindle with a backlit screen and started reading in bed for 15-30 minutes right before going to bed. I picked up a library card that gives me access to a bunch of kindle books for free and my amazon prime also gives me access to quite a few books I can read for free. I buy books for the kindle every now and then
- nanospeck 9y agoAudio books are great way to read esp. while commute/driving and evening/morning threadmill sessions (double benefit of improving health + knowledge).
- faizmokhtar 9y agoI take public transport to work so that I can get a 1 1/2 hours to read everyday. And sometimes while I'm doing my laundry.
- wreath 9y agoI stop using my computer and phone at 9pm every evening, and plan to go to bed by 10:30pm. So I have at least 1 hour and a half for reading.