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No difference. If I could drive a car (which I can't, because of a visual handicap), my travel time would be much less. I'd spend it reading at home, in that case. |
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I agree that if you're not enjoying what you're reading, the first step is to read something else. I'd start with books similar to the TV shows and movies you like. Maybe even the books they're based on, if they are based on books.
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Start out with a favorite book that you tend to re-read so you get used to listening and driving. Since you already know the story it won't be a distraction because you won't have to concentrate on it as much as you would with a new story, and you'll attune yourself to listening while driving. Use an MP3 audiobook CD, or if you have a line-in jack on your car radio plug in an MP3 player. If you've got a device like the Nook HD or another Android or Apple device, you can put the Audible.com app on it or load an audiobook file and play the audiobook right through its speakers. |
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For the OP: What TV shows do you like? Try finding the same types of books! So if you like cooking shows, you might like cozy mysteries involving cooking or bakery shops. If you like horror, there are lots of horror books. If you like gardening, you might enjoy a fantasy book about magical plants.
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Feed me, Seymour.... FEED ME! Last edited by Katsunami; 01-31-2014 at 07:16 PM. |
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How to read more...the answer seems pretty straightforward: Read what you like.
However, finding out what you like reading takes time. Good rule is to take a chance on different genres and figuring it out. And when I say take a chance I don't mean reading one sci-fi book for example and deciding its not for you. I think you need at least half a dozen for that. You said you read non-fiction only. I think there is your problem. Take a chance on fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, detective, romance, whatever. Breath some life in to your reading, figure out what you like, what you love and what you don't want to read if somebody paid you to do it. Last edited by Geralt; 02-02-2014 at 10:48 AM. |
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I increased my reading when I finally bought an e-reader in 2011. Let's say my baseline for reading was really low...But having something lightweight that I could carry everywhere really helped. It also helped that I could increase the font size. I find paperback fonts are very trying for me now (I did recently have reading glasses made).
I got a smartphone in late 2012 and started listening to books on it. It's blasphemy to state this on a mobile reader site--but I almost exclusively 'read' with audiobooks now. And I find I can read more because I do so while doing chores and playing with the cats. I have The Magus on my e-reader but keep putting it off even though it's a book I've wanted to read for awhile now. But every time I finish an audiobook, I download another. I wish Overdrive offered The Magus as an audiobook. |
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The question seems pretty easy put it does require a lot of effort.
Most said that it depends on what you like to read. My best shot is to get random books and read the first 40 pages. If you don't like the book, switch. Some mistakes people make is force themselves to read the book even if they don't like it. That's a huge turn-off and people tend to be less enthusiastic when having the choice of reading again. Another thing is discipline. Condition yourself to read and avoid disturbances of any sort, or interrumptions of any nature. It's difficult at first, considering how sexy your TV looks after an hour of reading during the first few weeks of reading. Third in my honest opinion is the type of book but not in the genre of style or author.. it's about the book's syntax... if you're reading a novel with a syntax equivalent of Plato's Republic, you're really gonna have a hard time going through the chapters. Reading, like exercise, requires practice. If you're reading tough stuff with intense verbose and difficult reading, you're gonna repeat the chapters more than once. Get easy reads, not just the type of reads from genres you generally like. That, and the comments people have given. Audiobooks are sketchy but overall good |
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This is more important than one would think. For a long time, I had been reading off-and-on, sometimes reading a book a week, sometimes not reading at all.
Now that I have adopted the routine of consistently reading at least two hours a day (one of which is in bed, before going to sleep), I find that it's rather hard to NOT read. Previously, I would need to take breaks from series: read one book, read something else. Read next in series, read something else, and so on. Now, after adopting the "read two hours in a day"-regime, I find it's much easier to continue reading the series. I'm on the brink of finishing my 10th book in the Shannara series in a row; actually, this also marks the end of my re-read of all my Shannara paperbacks as e-books. (I have the newer books as e-books, but have never read them yet.) Actually, now I have to force myself to quit and start reading something else, or I'll actually fail the reading challenge I set for myself this year. (A part of that challenge is "don't read fantasy all the fracking time." ![]() Last edited by Katsunami; 02-14-2014 at 02:08 PM. |
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Ah, man is an animal of habit.
![]() ![]() Just kidding, how about sci-fi? I started reading that genre last year and I really like it. However, I think this thread might do little good, even though there is some really good advice here. OP has said he reads only non-fiction, and judging by the threads after this, he is still looking only for non-fiction. Of course, to each his own, and I hope somebody might find this thread useful. |
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I've stopped watching TV for the last 5+ years. Yeah, babe, I'm clean and free -- I still have a TV set for an ocasional netflix movie session or game playing, but I'm mostly fed up even with those activies. TV's such a life-long addiction that most are submitted ever since childhood that you usually get blank stares when telling others about it: "Is that even possible? Don't you drown?"
Nowadays I mostly read or write, either in books, games or over discussions on internet like these. ![]() and BTW, don't read more, read better |
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I only turn on my TV to get an image from my media center so I can choose a music album to play (although I can also do that from my phone), or to watch a DVD/BR movie. I can't remember watching any TV program from beginning to end in the last 10 years. |
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