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do I count the stories or the days? I read two shorter works today. Do I bank the extra story, or do I just record that I read at least one story today?
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Depends. Was your goal to simply read and enjoy short stories which you lost the habit of reading or was the goal to tick off a certain number because you've gotten so behind on your reading of them?
Eventually, some calamity or just plain illness will interfere with your daily goal. Will you feel BEHIND if you miss out on a week of reading because you got the flu? If so, then, count the stories. If not, don't worry about it. Perhaps keep a spreadsheet of them. I keep a list and a goal number just because I have a lot of individual purchased and free novellas and short stories in both audiobook and Kindle. Some of these are back from 2008. I usually listen to them in the morning, but then life happens and I get out of the habit and my list reminds me that I still have these waiting for me. Once I get caught up, I will return to my podcasts (Classic Tales, Scipodcast, OldTimeRadio) which was my previous morning fare.
Finished yet another Terry Pratchett audiobook (
Reaper Man). I have the next one, but it looks like I have 5 starts already going on and need to finish at least one of those before starting another. I have one non-fiction book "
Life at Bletchley Park" that is very interesting, but I always have to push myself to read more of it. I guess this is why I seldom read non-fiction any more. Today though, since the Echo has a very good speaker, I'm going to set it to Text-to-speech (british voice of course) and listen to it while I work on a time-consuming project.