“My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week”

Re:“My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other ... by eruditely on Sunday January 04, 2015 @03:44PM (#8835757)

This is great. Every one should do something like this, most people underestimate the amount of knowledge they lack. My biggest breakthrough(s) by far came from going bibliography to bibliography and just absorbing it.

Let me phrase this another way, some people are always going on and on about the tragedy of not having enough intelligence and how some people never got a chance[1] to get started on whatever it is they wanted.

However even more tragic is the people who did have the intelligence to absorb masterpieces and classics that would otherwise benefit them, but still did not!

I'd like to add that libraries are a severely under utilized resource and that most people learn better from books.

[1] - I make no statements here about this.

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Re:“My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other ... by mb_72 on Sunday January 04, 2015 @04:16PM (#8835880)

Perhaps I'm weird, but I enjoy reading precisely because I can do it on my own schedule. Some days I'll read nothing, other days I'll spend hours reading. It's one of the few 'unstructured' things I have, and I would be loathe to put any kind of schedule on it.

Besides that, looking at my bookshelf, I have books ranging in length from roughly 200 to 1000 pages, some of the larger books with very small print. A fixed 2-week schedule seems to ignore the actual time required to read different length books; it imposes a possibly impractical 'beat' on what IMO should be a more organic process.

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