While reading the article, at about half of the page, I got distracted thinking about useful comments that may be lie here thus stopped reading the article to read comments
How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
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Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#22That was pretty disappointing. I was hoping for more substance. Seems rather than giving strategies on how to read books with ADHD the article devolved into telling people with ADHD to embrace that they never finish any books.
Agreed. It wasn't so much 'how to read books' as 'how to get something out of books (without actually reading most of them)'. For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as…
That's pretty cool, though I think I would be capable of creating a userscript that can apply gradient text.
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#23While reading the article, at about half of the page, I got distracted thinking about useful comments that may be lie here thus stopped reading the article to read comments
Ok I forced myself to go back to finish reading, I found the content interesting, BUT why not apply the concept to the article too ?
being directed to people that easily get distracted,
why not intrigue the reader in the first paragraph ( with actual content ( the ONE thing concept, (badly summarized : learn something useful and feel free to get distracted or go away)) not a description of a common behaviour )
..than go deeper explaining the concept instead of buring it deep in the page ?
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#24I don't have ADHD but often find it hard to finish books too. I honestly think that there's a lot of books that are simply not worth reading. Reading a book is quite a commitment (may take up to a month for me). I often lose interest once I realize that whole book is a single idea that could be summed up in a blog post but stretched to fit 300 pages.
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. It wasn't so much 'how to read books' as 'how to get something out of books (without actually reading most of them)'. For people who want to actually get through books, I'd recommend this tool [1], which I created several years back. It has become fairly popular in the ADHD world and is recommended at top universities (Stanford/Yale/Dartmouth) to students with ADHD and dyslexia. It works with Kindle books as…
That's pretty cool, though I think I would be capable of creating a userscript that can apply gradient text.
Yeah, the most seamless way is when it's integrated into a browser itself. The new Insight Browser (YC W19) offers this functionality in a pretty slick way (and it's totally free). [1] We also have a JS widget that can be embedded into a website, like The Program has done for their transcripts. [2]
1: https://www.insightbrowser.com
2: https://programaudioseries.com/0-the-program-comes-for-us-al...
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#26I don't have ADHD but often find it hard to finish books too. I honestly think that there's a lot of books that are simply not worth reading. Reading a book is quite a commitment (may take up to a month for me). I often lose interest once I realize that whole book is a single idea that could be summed up in a blog post but stretched to fit 300 pages.
That's actually the basis of... I forget the name... There's a new-ish product doing the rounds on YouTube sponsorships. Basically, they distill every book into its core ideas, and present them as a 15-minute chunk.
I like the idea, not because I dislike reading, but because it's handy to have an "idea map" of a book. The ToC is ostensibly that, but it's hard to figure out what their points are from the titles alone.
Wish I could remember what the company was called, but whatever. Haven't used them myself, but it struck me as a neat concept.
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#27When it comes to long, difficult slogs, I prefer audiobooks. Mostly consumed when exercising outside in nature. Imagine reading Moby Dick, and the author goes into a long boring diatribe about 19th century cetology. If you're sitting at home reading a physical book, pushing through is a long, difficult process that requires continuous effortful willpower. But when you're running a 10km, at worst you just zone out uti…
Excuse me but Melville's asides are anything but boring!
Moby Dick was one of the first "real" books I touched as child.
I got it from the school library over the summer vacations.
I have to admit that I too found the asides boring and only managed to get about halfway through until the end of the vacations. At the beginning of the new school year I had to return it but had the intent to borrow it again to finish it. I never did and this must be the longest open point on my personal to do list. I wonder if - after so much time has passed - I still would find the asides boring...
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#28I find that it's a habit you can build. If you read for 20 minutes a day, and keep it up for a few weeks, that might be all you need to keep the habit going for the rest of the year.
For some personality types, it's easy to get intensely interested in reading something, but it can be hard to keep up that intensity.
I built a web app for making goal boards, and it's perfect for getting yourself to read a little bit every day https://javaboards.com
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#29I don't have ADHD but often find it hard to finish books too. I honestly think that there's a lot of books that are simply not worth reading. Reading a book is quite a commitment (may take up to a month for me). I often lose interest once I realize that whole book is a single idea that could be summed up in a blog post but stretched to fit 300 pages.
That's actually the basis of... I forget the name... There's a new-ish product doing the rounds on YouTube sponsorships. Basically, they distill every book into its core ideas, and present them as a 15-minute chunk. I like the idea, not because I dislike reading, but because it's handy to have an "idea map" of a book. The ToC is ostensibly that, but it's hard to figure out what their points are from the titles alone.…
I think you mean https://www.blinkist.com/. I used it for a year, it's great for those low-density books. But really I'd like to read books, only the ones that are really interesting and valuable. My problem is that I don't want to spend money on ones that I then find are not worth the time. Perhaps someone can recommend a good subscription service with decent selection? How does scribd selection compare to amazon?
Re: How to Read Books When You Have ADHD
#30When it comes to long, difficult slogs, I prefer audiobooks. Mostly consumed when exercising outside in nature. Imagine reading Moby Dick, and the author goes into a long boring diatribe about 19th century cetology. If you're sitting at home reading a physical book, pushing through is a long, difficult process that requires continuous effortful willpower. But when you're running a 10km, at worst you just zone out uti…
Excuse me but Melville's asides are anything but boring!
if those asides are in The Confidence Man, in Moby Dick they bore.