I am also reading more books and faster. Here is what I've done:
1. Downloaded a lot of books from torrents on every single device which supports reading. So there is almost no time I am unable to read if some moment of boredom happens to me.
2. Regularly download all books available from the topic I'm interested in. For example: everything about vacuum tubes, everything about transistors, everything about the "free" will, everything about leftist values, everything about my favorite anarchist etc. I bet some of them is not available online any more
3. I have mastered my English, because no other language proposes this much of books.
4. Now I leave long comments about each book I've read on the place I've downloaded them. I don't know how to comment on TPB or on Libgen but on main tracker of my native language it is more than possible.
5. I've realized I do not need to read the whole thing, typically I need to realize where the content begins. F.e. the all chapter except the latter one of Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is obvious for anyone who does any science no matter whether it professional work or amateur journey. Do not musunderstood me, the book is really deep, but all the deepness lies in one last chapter, and all the former ones are just the preparation who have not dive in the topic of making science.
6. I have a list of bad words which make me to reject the book without any hesitation. For example: God, psychology, metaphysics. Just I do not feel any urge to read about these.
7. I discuss what I have read with either real friends or in the social networks such as Youtube, or if the book is about practical stuff circa electronics so I need to grab a soldering unit immediately and try anything from it.
8. I hate making notes about the books because I am bad at ordering things but making bookmarks in the PDF reader software works great if I ever want to return to what was readed. But this is one of the reasons I never update software on my main computer - I know that anything I wrote will disappear in one way or another, typically after either upgrade or hardware failure.
9 (bonus). An unexpected thing happened to me when I used to read fiction (it was Agatha Cristie). I have realized that my brain is too shaped to read technical/philosophy/medical/(auto)biography/encyclopedic books so reading detectives where not just each line matters but also a sequence was a torture! I still don't value fiction at all but understanding that my brain became misshaped to this activity like a teenager's brain became misshaped to any reading at all was a very healing experience, a bitter pill I was really really needed to consume.
eimrine•4mo ago
1. Downloaded a lot of books from torrents on every single device which supports reading. So there is almost no time I am unable to read if some moment of boredom happens to me.
2. Regularly download all books available from the topic I'm interested in. For example: everything about vacuum tubes, everything about transistors, everything about the "free" will, everything about leftist values, everything about my favorite anarchist etc. I bet some of them is not available online any more
3. I have mastered my English, because no other language proposes this much of books.
4. Now I leave long comments about each book I've read on the place I've downloaded them. I don't know how to comment on TPB or on Libgen but on main tracker of my native language it is more than possible.
5. I've realized I do not need to read the whole thing, typically I need to realize where the content begins. F.e. the all chapter except the latter one of Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is obvious for anyone who does any science no matter whether it professional work or amateur journey. Do not musunderstood me, the book is really deep, but all the deepness lies in one last chapter, and all the former ones are just the preparation who have not dive in the topic of making science.
6. I have a list of bad words which make me to reject the book without any hesitation. For example: God, psychology, metaphysics. Just I do not feel any urge to read about these.
7. I discuss what I have read with either real friends or in the social networks such as Youtube, or if the book is about practical stuff circa electronics so I need to grab a soldering unit immediately and try anything from it.
8. I hate making notes about the books because I am bad at ordering things but making bookmarks in the PDF reader software works great if I ever want to return to what was readed. But this is one of the reasons I never update software on my main computer - I know that anything I wrote will disappear in one way or another, typically after either upgrade or hardware failure.
9 (bonus). An unexpected thing happened to me when I used to read fiction (it was Agatha Cristie). I have realized that my brain is too shaped to read technical/philosophy/medical/(auto)biography/encyclopedic books so reading detectives where not just each line matters but also a sequence was a torture! I still don't value fiction at all but understanding that my brain became misshaped to this activity like a teenager's brain became misshaped to any reading at all was a very healing experience, a bitter pill I was really really needed to consume.