Start reading a long series by a prolific author - like Bernard Cornwell or Patrick O'Brian on Kindle. Watch your bank account dwindle.
Ways to Read More Books
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#12There seems to something of a cargo-cult mentality underlined in this article. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Stephen King and Mark Zuckerberg all read loads of books (that's how they made their money!) Unless you have some set goal to know a certain body of knowledge (as I presume the four above have), reading should be done leisurely -- not a race to read, and half-understand, as many books as possible.
Agreed. I'd rather read books in my couch at my own pace than feel stressed about finishing the latest non fiction self help book.
The best way to read more books is to make time for it and read books you enjoy.
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#13the deal breaker for me is actually picking up a new book to read, often I stop at the "searching a good book to read". when you start often is inertia.
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#14the deal breaker for me is actually picking up a new book to read, often I stop at the "searching a good book to read". when you start often is inertia.
It sounds like maybe you need a better network of strong recommendations that you would personally find interesting. For me, my interests lie in non-fiction literature, and I have many colleagues who share those interests, and so I often find myself with more interesting literature on my list than I have the free time to read and digest. However, I think that I have a much better problem than you do.
I'm certain that there are quality book clubs, social or even recommendation engines that might help you get started finding more literature that's personally interesting to you. Maybe the HN crowd knows of some quality sources for personally interesting literature?
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#15I go back and forth on if its helpful to set a goal on the number of books. Sometimes its a good motivation for me. Other times its a distraction to the goals of why I read: to learn and to enjoy. The year my son was born I spent hours everyday pushing him in a stroller to help him stop crying and give his mom a break. I read / listened to 105 books that year, which ended up being too much. I couldn't remember most o…
One downside of tracking the books I read is that I have a subtle resistance to starting super long books, because I know for that month I'll only end up reading 2 books instead of 5. It's really stupid but a side effect of tracking / counting.
It means I unnecessarily postponed reading excellent books such as "Titan" by Chernow.
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#16[Off topic] You can purchase this article for $8.95? https://hbr.org/product/8-ways-to-read-a-lot-more-books-this...
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2. Get your tax dollars’ worth out of your library card
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#18I found out that for many books on amazon when you buy kindle version that for, usually, 3-5$ you can add audible narration of the same book! Audio books enable me to read more books in mindless situations where reading paper or kindle is not easy or not possible (example when running, in store..). Just a note, I tried (and paid) for blinklist.com before, but I am not using it anymore, I feel like I miss much out of…
THIS! Subscribing to audible has been a game changer for me. And once you get used to it, listening on fast forward has made the experience more pleasurable and you go through the books faster.
On a side note, I wish audible would make downloading the accompanying figure PDFs less cumbersome. Currently,it seems to be impossible to get them through the mobile app and one needs to use the website to download them.
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#19I love reading technical books slowly, and digesting all content.
Relocating around Europe made it quite tough to carry all my book hardcopies with me: SICP, CTM, TAOP...
Finally, it seems 13 inch eink readers with support for arbitrary formats (thanks to them running Android, or even capable to process input HDMI video) will become mainstream. To me that's the way to read more books. Thousands of technical books in an eye-friendly tablet. I wonder why it took so long.
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#20I go back and forth on if its helpful to set a goal on the number of books. Sometimes its a good motivation for me. Other times its a distraction to the goals of why I read: to learn and to enjoy. The year my son was born I spent hours everyday pushing him in a stroller to help him stop crying and give his mom a break. I read / listened to 105 books that year, which ended up being too much. I couldn't remember most o…
One downside of tracking the books I read is that I have a subtle resistance to starting super long books, because I know for that month I'll only end up reading 2 books instead of 5. It's really stupid but a side effect of tracking / counting. It means I unnecessarily postponed reading excellent books such as "Titan" by Chernow.
I've gotten around this (at least a little) by tracking pages read instead of books read.