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Reading nonfiction books has gotten harder for me over the years because I've kinda driven myself into a "deep read or don't read at all" mode, so I don't read shallow books anymore, and don't do the thing I used to 20y ago of rapid-and-rude scanning and making notes of gist.
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Why not just read til you get enough of what you need and stop? I do that all the time as most non-fiction books don't need to be 200+pages to communicate their point/knowledge.
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I rarely read them... usually just pick out one or two essays rather than read the whole collections, so I don't see the point of the collecting... buying an album for one song type deal
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I switched a few years ago to getting all my nonfiction as audiobooks while I do chores, and it’s been a great move. Books > most podcasts, and at 2x I’m absorbing at about the level I want to be getting. And I “read” things like 1k-page biographies that I’d never read on paper.
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I used to read voraciously, but it all went in one eye and out the other. With the advent of the web I had a good thing going; I only had access at the office. I took long form articles home on thumb drives to read. Now I have access in my pocket and I've read EVERYTHING.