1. List of books

Most people have a strange mix of greed and apathy for books. We love buying books and saving them on shelves, but we don’t always read them. A long list of unread items is demotivating.

Don’t buy books for future use. One or two is enough for you. Everyone else will wait in the wings on the reading list. And try to buy fewer expensive illustrated editions — this is a good gift, but not for yourself.

2. The 50-page rule

Life’s too short to spend it on uninteresting books.

Try to quickly weed out the boring and useless. To do this, just read the first 50 pages of the book. If she captivates her over 50 pages, she won’t disappoint to the very end. If not, see la vie.

Try not to give bad books a second chance. Hundreds, thousands of new and interesting ones are published around you every year.

3. Who is writing and what

Before reading, get to know the book: read about the author and the book, study the content. This way you will set the right vector for your reading.

Also, before reading, ask yourself: What do you want to learn about the book, what problems can it help you solve? This will help you catch on topics that are useful to you while reading.

4. Alternative formats

Books don’t make the world stick together. The modern world has enough formats: articles, audiobooks and podcasts, infographics and longreads, digests and newsletters.

If books seem long and boring to you, then they are. Switch to other formats, find your own.

5. Read with a pencil

Never read a book without a pencil. If it is not possible to make a note or highlight a quote, then reading is useless.

A book is just a heap of verbal ore from which you need to extract a grain of meaning. If there is no way to separate the breed from the nuggets, then why read?

Feel free to emphasize, highlight, write your thoughts and ideas in notes. Turn a book into more than a stack of hemmed paper. After such a meaningful reading, the book is truly yours.

6. At least 30 pages per day

Everyone has a different reading rhythm. They read “The Marathon Runners” month by month, pinching off the publication little by little. The Sprinters run through the whole book in a couple of days. However, there is a simple and universal reading formula. It will help you read and finish reading before you leave you with interest and energy.

Try to read at least an hour a day and at least 30 pages a day. This way you can read a book a week. That’s 60 books a year — a great result!

7. Mixing genres

Everyone has their favorite genres. However, if you delve too much into detective novels or business literature, you will be oversaturated. Even cool books will no longer please.

In that case, it is useful to change the genre. Mix books like cocktail ingredients. After the non-fiction, read a volume of Russian classics. It is followed by science fiction, followed by a book on negotiations.

The ability to alternate literary genres is a great way to stay on your toes and develop your reading horizons.

8. Write about what you read

If you read effectively, you’ll accumulate quotes, passages, and thoughts about what you read. This is valuable information, a real book concentrate. It’s a shame to keep this in a chest.

Start your own book blog. Write reviews of what you read, share quotes. Publish a reading list, scold bad publications, and praise good ones. Even Facebook* is suitable for this; no special writing skills are required.

This will give you a place to store quotes and passages, and your friends will have a couple of reasons to love you even more.

9. Reread notes

Make a habit of rereading your book notes. If you “squeeze” a book into several pages, you will have half an hour of time to go through your book inventory.

Knowledge loves repetition. Thus, key ideas will always be within arm’s reach from their practical application.

10. Reading presentation

In order not to forget what you read in the book, tell your friends about it.

So, if you write a short summary to our tips, you will get the following:

Don’t save books, read them at least 30 pages a day.

Judge a book by its first 50 pages.

Feel free to try out different genres and alternative formats.

Be sure to write quotes and take notes.

Share them on your blog and make presentations to colleagues and friends.

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