How to read more books
Recently I started posting on social media the books that made a strong impression as I read them, and a friend of mine wrote me asking how do I manage to read so fast, especially taking into consideration how busy people are with their jobs, family and social life. I get asked this question quite often, so this post is an attempt to answer this question. I want to start by writing that I do not include the easy tricks that can be used to get the reading frequency up (there are plenty of blogs and vlogs about that issue already), since I do not see reading as a competitive sport or a way to self promote oneself. Some of these tricks include switching to shorter reads (thinner books), switch to audio books, divide longer books into their equivalent partial chunks (like some people could divide Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings into three books and count each one of them separately, for example), include work or study literature on your reading lists, etc. In some cases it can be just...