How to read more?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My problem is the reverse. I do volumes of material and I have to read it all. It's a relief to not read.

[drl2]

Keep a book in the bathroom and start eating lots of spicy food.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Keep a book in the bathroom and start eating lots of spicy food.

On my reading rack right now:

[orpheus]

I think we tend to forget how interactive reading is - much more so than most electronic media, actually, even video games that are touted as being highly interactive. Books are because you have to imagine so much - you must construct all the images in your head. You control the pace at which you experience it, as well. (You can do this with some games, too, but it's vastly more cumbersome than simply reading slower or faster).

Like anything interactive, it takes some effort, and it can be like exercise. The more you do it the more "in condition" you'll get.

[Tero]

Kindle?the browser is so klunky you will have to read so as not to make it a loss.

[JimC]

I think we tend to forget how interactive reading is - much more so than most electronic media, actually, even video games that are touted as being highly interactive. Books are because you have to imagine so much - you must construct all the images in your head. You control the pace at which you experience it, as well. (You can do this with some games, too, but it's vastly more cumbersome than simply reading slower or faster).

Like anything interactive, it takes some effort, and it can be like exercise. The more you do it the more "in condition" you'll get.

My thoughts exactly; well put!

[Rum]

You might want to start with a book or two of short stories - science fiction perhaps, if you are into that. Find a few really short ones of ten pages or so to get into the swing of it.

[helenlouisa]

Yes Rum....story collections are an excellent idea, to get back on the Reading Circuit. I read an excellent volume recently, with a delicious title..." My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me"....wonderful,modern interpretations of Fairy Tales, and even a few Greek Myths thrown in for flavor....