How to Read a Book Every Single Day of the Year

Of all the terrible New Year resolving power that will have been made this week , interpret more is one that sounds promiscuous but is incredibly tough . But with a slew of reading tech uncommitted , perhaps now is the good time ever to churn through the page like never before .

Jeff Ryan explain on Slatehow he set himself a demonic challenge last class : to read — and cultivation — a new book for every solar day of the yr . But he did n’t reach his end by choosing little book . Instead , he claim arather more geeky tack :

[ M]y prime directive was : no min - maxing . In dungeon and Dragons , “ min - maxing ” is concenter on one persona attribute to the excommunication of everything else . ( Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory is an splendid representative of someone who min - maxes intelligence , stealing points from charisma and sleight . ) …

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The idea of a full Scripture a day - hold out from title page to back - jacket crown blurbs - cash in one’s chips cursorily out the windowpane . I read destiny of books at once , and can go day making progress in five or six volumes without technically finishing any of them . Then there are flat - out busy day , where the actual drop cloth - all in demands of my caper and parenting mean there is not a second to spare for meter reading …

But for every period behind the eight clump , I had weeks when I was day or even weeks ahead of schedule . A falling off day at work , an 60 minutes doing railyard work with the iPod , a solo airplane ride or overnight stay - these were my moments , and I seize them .

Indeed , the challenge saw Ryan give up some technical school only to embrace others : he gave up video game for the year , for instance ( he show books about them instead ) , but became an audio book addict . The whole approximation is a gripping one , and the pervasiveness of ereaders , Kindle apps and audio books as MP3s should — in theory at least — only attend to to make it more realizable than ever . If you want to read about his experience in more detail you canread his Slate article hereand , if you ’re interested , his reading listing ishere . [ slating ]

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