How I read books

created 2020-06-07 · edited 2020-06-07 · open in Roam

I track my bookreading in what I call a Bookantt Chart - template - my public sheet
- which is basically a spreadsheet with books down the left and days across the top, and each day I fill in how many minutes I read towards each book
- this incentivizes me to follow the sort of strategy outlined by Morgan Housel in
  - How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter
    - > "My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them."
- I've written about my bookantt strategy on my blog:
  - Focus On Starting Books: How I’m reading 2× as much as last year with a smaller goal
Other things to know:
- I used to live in a library, that had about 6000 books in it, quite well-curated
  - I
- I haven't read How To Take Smart Notes but I already tend to favor a style of notetaking that involves writing down what ideas I'm having, not just highlighting
  - unfortunately, this is currently relatively hard to do directly with physical books; since I don't write in the margins it requires at minimum some other device (even if that device is a paper notebook)
My top book lists

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