Ask HN: How Do You Read?
Interesting... Lots of people seem to read a lot of books - I get lots of recommendations from people at work and stuff. People talk about reading a book a week or whatever.<p>I&#x27;ve never enjoyed reading books - right from childhood up to now. I try to avoid it. I have gifts from birthdays and christmases from years ago where the book sits entirely unread on the shelf for a year or two until I give it away once the guilt has subsided.<p>The thought of starting reading a book from start to finish just fills me with a sense of tedium and of wasting my time. I&#x27;ve not read a single book in perhaps the last 20+ years.<p>I feel like there is a glimmer of how I feel from this question: &quot;how to get the most out of each book&quot;... are you actually getting <i>anything at all</i> by reading each book? Are you like me and just feel like you <i>should</i>, but actually deep down you just don&#x27;t really get anything from it?<p>Am I alone?<p>(P.S. I am a fluent reader and readily enjoy reading the news &amp; technical docs (and don&#x27;t really watch TV or movies that much - maybe an hour or two a week), but <i>books</i> - boy oh boy I simply couldn&#x27;t care any less)