Thread: What exactly do you call "reading a book" ?
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Old 11-04-2011, 08:36 AM   #112
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Originally Posted by simplyparticular View Post
Nonfiction varies greatly. Historical books I generally read cover to cover, including footnotes, appendices, etc. Career, business or financial books I tend to skim for the main arguments - it seems that more and more of these books are padding the content with repetitiveness. Memoirs and autobiographies are a bit more like fiction - if the author can't engage me (or outright annoys me) with their OWN life story in 1/3 of the book, I'm gone.
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