> read fewer books but take the time to write summaries for the good ones The odds of finding good books goes down if one reads fewer books. Taking suggestions

> read fewer books but take the time to write summaries for the good ones The odds of finding good books goes down if one reads fewer books. Taking suggestions from others is not a good substitute for finding one's own "good ones". If I find that a book I'm reading is not good for me, I start skipping, first a few parapgraphs, then a few pages, then a whole chapter and so on, to see if it gets better. And I'm even prepared to stop reading it altogether if it doesn't get any better. That gives me more time to find and read better books.