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A Guide To Becoming a Reader (and reading 30 books in a year)
Author : ikonic89
Score : 12 points
Date : 2021-04-09 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| dejj wrote:
| After 'Surgical Reading'[1] I started loving book indexes.
| They're like Code Surfing on paper.
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| One of the most thoroughly organized books I know, I've bought
| today: "A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or
| Twenty". It has 3 indexes in the back (by season, by time, by
| alphabet). It uses left margins and page color for grouping by
| method (no cooking, on stove, in oven), and right margins for
| grouping by course. It is so rigorously organized. Almost a shame
| I'll never read it all. But that's the cost of really
| understanding the contents: cooking, eating, and repeating to get
| better at the same. Looking at words is auxiliary to living.
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| [1]: https://every.to/superorganizers/surgical-reading-how-to-
| rea...
| mjoksimovic wrote:
| Ha, I never saw or heard of this! Gotta have a deeper look.
| Thanks for sharing!
| tkiolp4 wrote:
| > How did you like the book?" asked a friend who recommended it.
| "I loved it! It was a real page-turner!", I answered. "Great!
| What do you think about ________ and _________ ? How did you like
| those parts?". I'll be honest. I literally had no clue what he
| was talking about. Are we talking about the same book? Sapiens?
| It sounded like it for sure. But I have no recollection of even
| reading that. WTF?
|
| This happens to me all the time, and in my opinion there's
| nothing wrong about it. All I care about is to enjoy what I'm
| reading at the moment. Whether or not I remember later on what I
| have read is of little importance to me (unless of course we are
| talking about reading for passing an exam or something like
| that).
| mjoksimovic wrote:
| Heh, well, I agree actually. I read somewhere that books are
| like food -- you enjoy them now and don't care about not
| remembering them in the future.
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| But the point that I was trying to make (I'm the author of the
| article) is that I actually had no clue what I read, even
| though I read it like days ago. And I think that's crap,
| honestly :) Especially given the type of the book that I was
| referring to.
| lacker wrote:
| I also couldn't get into Crime and Punishment, and I read a lot
| of books and loved The Brothers Karamazov. The idea of just
| quitting books that you enjoy is really important... for me at
| least, I feel like I get more out of the top 10% of books that I
| read than I get out of the bottom 50%. Sometimes a great book
| only clicks when you're 1/4 of the way through it, though.
| mjoksimovic wrote:
| >> The idea of just quitting books that you enjoy is really
| important...
|
| Frankly, even though I did mention it in the article, I'm
| honestly still really struggling with this concept. Like, I
| literally feel guilty about dropping a book so I always try to
| push through as much as possible.
|
| But hell, I started reading "Start with WHY" and I just had to
| drop that crap ... Like, just ... no, LOL.
|
| >> Sometimes a great book only clicks when you're 1/4 of the
| way through it, though
|
| Oh yeah! I had this with 11/22/63. Like, first 15% were
| amazing, then like 70% was pure boredom and holy crap, the last
| 15% was like ... FUUUUUUUUU. Made everything before that
| ABSOLUTELY worth it!
|
| So, absolutely agreed - sometimes you just have to preserve!
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