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Can you explain your scanning process? Are book scanners affordable?
I use a fujitsu fi-5120c hopper fed scanner. It's a destructive scanner, i.e. you have to slice the spine off. 400 dpi gives a satisfying result.
(About $1,200 for anyone else curious.)
I used to have a stack of unread books. I still do, but now everything is on the Kindle. In fact, the Kindle has the best solution for this ever - every time I come across a book I want to read, I simply go to Amazon and click "Send Sample to Kindle". Then, I have a sample of the book on my Kindle. Whenever I decide I need to read a new book, I open the Kindle and choose from the hundreds of samples that are there. I…
I had the book Future Perfect in hardcover sitting on my shelf for 3 months. I loaded it in QR and because the app tells you how long it will take at your WPM pace to finish that chapter and the book, I know I will finish this chapter in 6:53 and the book in 1:50:49. It makes books much less intimidating and I usually do 15-30 minute sessions. You don't get bored or distracted because the words are being pushed in front of you. It's amazing. I've never read more books in a shorter time with this system.
I think I will write a full post on my system. Also protip: Get the audio if available and listen to that when you can't read.
I'm not sure why you should buy so many books, given that you know you are not finishing them. I can understand novels, and story books and stuff like that. But its not wise to buy technical books when things change so rapidly in our area of work. I currently have to two books to finish. One is Ulysses. Reading that book is really more like a project. Tried chewing through the first chapter, everything went over my h…
Then I had a to-read shelf.
and then... and then...
Ended up with about two and a half 6 foot bookshelves full of stuff I hadn't read. Which is currently sitting in storage.
For the last few years I've had the rule that I don't buy a book until the point that I'm going to start reading it. Which the world of digital books has obviously made a lot easier.
Made my life simpler - I'd recommend it ;-)
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I use a fujitsu fi-5120c hopper fed scanner. It's a destructive scanner, i.e. you have to slice the spine off. 400 dpi gives a satisfying result.
Thanks! (About $1,200 for anyone else curious.)
The good news is that SICP is an illuminating experience, the bad news are it took me 1 year to go through it, doing all the exercises along the way.
My 2014 goal is 10K pages read not including technical or maths. This year I will keep accurate records and keep a burn down chart to make sure I reach my goal. Last year I had quickly fallen behind and keep poor records (a read stack pushed around by a young child.)
I upped my amount of reading taking the opposite approach to the author: buying more books that I don't read. The mechanics work something like this: - its easier to read a book you're motivated to read - you're not sure what you will be motivated to read until after you've finished your current book(s) - so, buy books you might be interested in advance, they'll be there and ready when the motivation hits I buy books…