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I think I couldn't possibly agree more with this list than I do. (infosec.pub)
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@read-and-be-merry List of Books to Read Before You Die

  1. Any book you want
  2. Don’t read books you don’t want to read
  3. That's it
  4. Congratulations you did it

@iammewhooaryou | really like this list. All my favorite books are on it.

@ read-and-be-merry Thanks | worked really hard on it

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I too found myself not being able to really discuss books I had read that long ago. So I slowed down my reading pace. Not just how many I take in, but how much time I spend reading the books. With particularly challenging things I have always returned to them, and re-read them as my understanding of the book expands, or my perspective on things changes, however I realized I remembered them in far more detail than others, and it was because the challenge slowed me down, and forced me to spend time contemplating what it was I was reading, as I was reading it.

I enjoy reading a lot more now. I am not in university any more, I do not have to read 500 pages per day.