Richard Ingram will read 52 books in a year, one per week. Last week he spend over 32 hours reading. All data, highlights and progress is saved at https://readmill.com/richardjingram
I spent a whole year going through the entire SICP, and doing all the exercises. It is not only a matter of "being technical", if there are exercises and you want to do them, your goose is cooked.
How much time does he spend every day to read them? I'm always impressed by people who tell me they read a book in a few days. I understand that one can learn to read faster, but for non-technical books this always lead me to be unable to clearly envision the world it is taking place in. Just like a narrated movie.
Even if I slow down I often can't remember the names and places in the book.
In two hours I might read about 50 pages. Far too slow to even stand a chance doing the same challenge he does.
Like the OP, I'm finding myself spending more and more time reading on my nook color. Though the LCD is slightly less comfortable than my eInk Sony ebook, having wikipedia a touch away is really too great to explain. I've read many, many books over the last weeks. One or two a week (last week, Jules Verne' "le testament d'un excentrique", the week before Jack London's" people of the abyss" and Verne's "la maison à vapeur").
And I still have a huge shelf of paper books to read :) Thinking of it, I probably spend most of my time reading something anyway (I read tons of magazines, blogs, HN, reddit, etc. too). I'm a real book worm :)
You say that you're reading about 25 pages per hour, that seems really slow; are you sure you aren't sub-vocalizing? Do you by any chance make the words sound in your head (or even your glottis)? This is often the main reason why some people have altogether slow reading and poor understanding.
An absolutely excellent book list. If all those books are available on Project Gutenberg (which it seems they are), this is one hell of an achievement as a civilisation, that we have managed to make freely available these foundations of educated thought.
Agreed on the list quality. About the second part of your comment - these works were probably all in the public domain before the great copyright lockdown of 1976 (and subsequent copyright extensions). Unfortunately "content owners" are going to find a way to extend copyright into perpetuity.
It feels like copyright law today is going where Real Property Law was circa 1600. "To content owners and the heirs of thy body in fee simple absolute... "
Edit: Don't expect to see any new works anytime soon.
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Last week: over 32 hours!! https://readmill.com/richardjingram/reads/debt-the-first-500...
And I still have a huge shelf of paper books to read :) Thinking of it, I probably spend most of my time reading something anyway (I read tons of magazines, blogs, HN, reddit, etc. too). I'm a real book worm :)
You say that you're reading about 25 pages per hour, that seems really slow; are you sure you aren't sub-vocalizing? Do you by any chance make the words sound in your head (or even your glottis)? This is often the main reason why some people have altogether slow reading and poor understanding.
It feels like copyright law today is going where Real Property Law was circa 1600. "To content owners and the heirs of thy body in fee simple absolute... "
Edit: Don't expect to see any new works anytime soon.
I wonder how often a path between two pages on Wikipedia is unique once its length is known. (You know, assuming no cycles were abused inbetween.)