Tag: reading
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Slow Reading Books
Slow reading books is a joy. I’m rereading the entire Dune Chronicles, and I’m doing it slowly. At the time of this writing I’m reading the first book, Dune, alongside a handful of other books I’m reading for the first time. The main reason I can read slow is because all the typical “reader’s expectations”…
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“First-world problem”
I like Oliver Burkeman’s definition on his essay “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket” for what he calls a first-world problem: people concerned about not being able to keep up with their ever growing reading/listening/watching backlog. I agree with him. A lot of people get so nervous about information inflow, which…