I have a trick I've adopted recently for nonfiction that has helped me immensely to read more and keep reading.¹ If a portion of a book is unappealing for any r

I have a trick I've adopted recently for nonfiction that has helped me immensely to read more and keep reading.¹ If a portion of a book is unappealing for any reason -- I feel like I already know it, it's irrelevant, it's impenetrable, whatever -- just skip ahead. It's still there if I need to come back to it. And this preserves the reading as an enjoyable and motivated experience rather than a slog that's easy to procrastinate over. In particular, if a later section turns out to not make sense without the bit that I skipped, I'm now highly motivated to go back and understand it. If you find yourself hampered by a kind of "completionism" like I do, you might find this very freeing and satisfying. I used this tactic on a book recently that had a lot of new-to-me gems of information at the beginning and end, but fluff in the middle. Previously I would have lost out on the stuff at the end, because I would have set the book aside at some point and dreaded coming back to it. --- ¹ I absolutely didn't invent this, but I'm also not sure where I picked it up.