“The best time to plant a tree is yesterday. The next best time is today”
Here are some tools to kickstart or augment your reading habit.
Free Books
The Morgan Housel Reading Strategy
Funnel wide, filter high. Link
Curated Book Lists
It would make sense to consider the source when someone recommends a book to you.
The following people check those boxes for me, so I’m sharing their recommendation lists.
List of lists: Bill Gates, Oprah, Carl Sagan, and many more
Tools
MS One Note: It has the ability to convert image to text. So if you take a picture of a page from a physical book you can have a digital copy. Great for saving highlights, taking notes, stashing blurbs without needing to transcribe by hand.
Instanovels: The New York Public Library is using the slow-drip IV of Instagram to deliver classic novels. Story here.
Reading Speed
Speed reading is widely debunked as the converted Scott Young explains here. I took a reading test and despite my perfectly average reading speed of 400 wpm that still means reading a book every 1 to 2 weeks is possible. Here’s a test and reading times for various classics based on your speed.