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Winning Against Your Reading List
- grigy 16y agoIf I can't finish the book in a few days then it usually takes forever to finish. Sometimes when I pause the reading for some time, then it's hard to restore the context so you can continue enjoying the book (true mostly for non technical books). But I agree that it would be more productive to define two or three categories and keep only one open book in each, while switching between categories.
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- ydant 16y agoFor me it's mostly a matter of making myself read (books). It's too easy to pick up the phone or stay tethered to the computer and read what's online. Once I get hooked in a book it's pretty straightforward to finish it. Thanks to the internet, though, the vast majority of what I read anymore is in short blog posts and articles.
- lionhearted 16y ago> It is fundamental that you keep focused on your current book and don't exchange it for another. Focus on finishing, one at a time (or 2 or 3, try not to pass the 3 books at the same time barrier). Great post, but I halfway disagree with this point. I made a huge gain as a reader when I decided to stop feeling guilty for abandoning a decent book halfway through. Lots of times you get the thesis of the book and a few good examples in the first half, and then you're better off jumping around until you find something else that makes you really need to read it.
- nopassrecover 16y agoI really don't get how people find book reading a chore or a task. For me it's much more comparable to watching T.V. (even if it's a documentary). My reading list problem is that I can never find anything new to read.