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>Yes the book is good for you now, because there was a reason you picked it up in the first place. I agree in general, but not with that specific statement. Ev
by falcor84 3y ago
>Yes the book is good for you now, because there was a reason you picked it up in the first place.
I agree in general, but not with that specific statement. Even if there was a good reason you picked it up, it might not be a sufficiently good reason to spend 10 more hours on it, or to block the queue of other books that would be more valuable to you at that point in time.
- mangamadaiyan 3y agoHow do you know the book is (or will be) valuable to you until (a) you finish reading the book, and (b) experience a set of circumstances that make you appreciate the "value" of the book? Is a period of 10 hours (or however many) spent reading a book _so_ important to one that one must judge a book before picking it up?
- jebarker 3y agoI think it depends on the type of book. I agree that you can't really appreciate what value you'll get from literature before reading, digesting and living with it. But lots of non-fiction should actually just be a blog post or some bullet points. There's certainly an opportunity cost to reading those books.