When It's Time To Change Your Reading Habits - Reactorreactormag.com/when-its-time-to-change-your-reading-habits/
470 sats \ 6 comments \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 2 Aug BooksAndArticles
I buy books I am incredibly excited to read and then I let them gather dust on a shelf. I order things out of absolute rushes of interest and then decide it’s not the time. Inexplicably, I rarely—unless I am reading them for work purposes—read brand-new books. I think with curious fondness about books I’ve heard so much about, and then simply do not pick them up.
Oof. I feel seen. Good essay on what it means to be in a reading rut, and how we sometimes game ourselves in and out of them.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 3 Aug
This is gonna sound weird but one thing that really helped my reading this year was tearing chapters to read on the go. Not having to lug a physical book around makes reading so easy. And after reading a book, I will recycle the torn chapters at the recycling machine to earn my coffee money - which is why I much prefer physical books to Kindle
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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 2 Aug
Every time I buy a new book, I feel guilty if I dont read it. Its just one of those things, I shouldnt waste money mentalities.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 3 Aug
I tend to go overboard and buy several books when I’m in Japan. But I usually leave them unread after I return to Singapore because the mood for reading them has evaporated. Still I like decorating my bookshelf with these books of a foreign language
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 2 Aug
I still have 3 or 4 books that I haven’t touched from my last buying spree. I keep harping on my son to get off his tablet and read the mountain of books we have bought for him and then I don’t take my own advice. Ugh.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 2 Aug
Well, "do as I say, not as I do" is one of the oldest tenets of parenting (though one I also tried to avoid).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 2 Aug
It's way hard for me to read books I bought 3 books pats year and I havent read yet not a single one
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