Everyone’s trying to read faster. I’m trying to read slower. Nothing better than being so inspired by a book that you have to put it down. That’s what reading is all about. Read slower, not faster.
A model I like - it's not literally correct - is that you want to only read books that are so good you'll want to read them multiple times. So, in the ideal, you'd never read a book once, just zero or two or more times.
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A few of my repeated reads / watches, very incomplete:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/968032549464244224 …
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I like the two-pronged approach of: 1) read (+ savor/reread) great books 2) learn *about* many more books for your antilibrary Also fascinated by this idea of 'centireading' — rereading 100+ times, giving a kind of radical familiarization with a text:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-force-reading-book-100-times-great-idea …
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I love all these thoughts about reading, thank you all for sharing :)
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Agree. Yet it takes quite long to select books which are to be read twice
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