Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/25/how-to-read-80-books-a-year.html
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Huh, it sounds like an extremely useful system for reading the kinds of books I don’t give a damn about reading.
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Typface looks like 8 o , not 80
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Is 80 a lot? I ready about 340 books a year, typically one a day except the few days I pass out from exhaustion or chemicals. I assume thats about 24 days a year.
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Get an advanced degree in the humanities?
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How to make reading a chore.
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Read a book a day, and then go back to watching TV on March 22nd.
I like the note-taking thing: definitely an aspiration idea for me, but then reading any books is an aspirational idea for me these days. If I have the time to sit down and read more than a couple of pages, I use it to sleep.
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Yeah, actually I was expecting the argument to be “don’t read hundreds of genre fiction books a year; read just 80 books but make them be really important ones”.
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Yep! That right there, exactly!
My system is to not have cable. Once you’ve checked the weather forecast and watched NOVA, it’s all ‘library time’.
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Best way to slow me down is give me a book I am hating. I was asking friends advice on how to walk away from a book I don’t want to read the other day.
Libby is my favorite app. I ready 32 books from my library last year and I am going to blow past that this year. I do not have cable, satellite or OTA tv where I live – it is all streaming. Mostly it is Rachel Maddow.
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The process is something like this approach to cleaning:
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That was my grandfather’s euphemism for sitting on the commode. (And, he was right.)
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Did you post that because of that cool little bookshelf in the back ground? WANT!
[grabs saw, runs outside to scrap lumber pile] “WANT! WANT! WANT! I’ll put one on every little slice of wall that isn’t a doorway or a window!”
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I read WAY more than 80 books a year. Most of them many many times. Possibly related: I have a two year old.
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Oh god, I didn’t even think about that. What does “Little Blue Truck” twelve times consecutively count as?
- One book
- Twelve books
- Zero “real” books
- Do you own a gun? Because you shouldn’t own a gun.
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More importantly does it still count if you have it memorized? Horn went beep…
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Step one: Don’t have kids.
Seriously, I can’t finish a paragraph until 9pm. Fortunately, because I have older kids I know that it gets better after they’re 5 or so, but until then forget it.
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…engine purred…
It’s certainly handy when he wakes up at 2 AM and I don’t want to turn on the reading light.
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