How being alone may be the key to rest

Re:How being alone may be the key to rest by sotojuan on Sunday October 02, 2016 @10:53AM (#12622593)

I think my strategy backfires if the book is really good. Personally my night reading is very casual, usually a light non fiction book that doesn't provoke much deep thought.

For me it's mostly about slowing down.

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Re:How being alone may be the key to rest by majewsky on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:13AM (#12622711)

I think it depends on the chapter length.

1. While I'm inside a chapter, I'll keep reading until the end of the chapter.

2. When I'm at the end of a chapter, I will stop if (and only if) I feel that I cannot invest the time to start the next chapter right now.

So short chapters are bad because I will just keep going ("oh come on, only two more pages") and long chapters are bad because I will not even start them. The sweet spot for me was two years ago when I read www.hpmor.com.

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Re:How being alone may be the key to rest by badwolf on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:24AM (#12622766)

for me it's more:

1. While inside a chapter, I'll just finish this chapter...

2. At the end of the chapter "oh, I gotta find out what happens. Just one more quick chapter..."

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Re:How being alone may be the key to rest by douche on Sunday October 02, 2016 @11:01AM (#12622641)

There's nothing like cracking a book open to read a few pages before bed, then noticing that all of a sudden the sun is coming in through the window and it's time to go to work...

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