Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles

Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by cavalcade119 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:49AM (#25324637)

I balance the two by reading longform articles that convey a single idea well, rather than books that take too long to read and clickbait articles that provide instant-gratification but nothing of lasting value. (I highly recommend the Thinking About Things newsletter [0] and LongReads [1] for finding these kinds of articles.)

[0] https://twitter.com/ThinkingAboutT6

[1] https://longreads.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by exaltation on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:00PM (#25324735)

Seconding the recommendation of Thinking About Things. That newsletter is really one of the internet's unknown gems - I tire of most "interesting article" curators eventually, but they cover such a diverse array of topics that it's been over a year and I still enjoy their articles.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by duckmysick on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:09PM (#25324817)

Is there an archive of the past links from the newsletter?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by exaltation on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:25PM (#25324950)

Unfortunately I don't see one on their site. The Twitter feed [0] has some links though.

[0] https://twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by nicbou on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:31PM (#25327715)

Thinking About Things is really good. I couldn't stop scrolling and adding things to Pocket. Thank you for the recommendation.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you balance reading books vs. articles by herodoturtle on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:54AM (#25324684)

Great piece of advice, thanks - and for the links too.

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