Nick Cernis has a post over at Put Things Off titled The Challenge: Read One Book a Week. I love reading but it goes up and down, I do not stick to any regular reading pace. The challenge is interesting and it can be done.

Nick gives 5 tips to become a regular reader:
1. Learn to chain-read
2. Read for pleasure
3. Forget speed-reading
4. Use the 50 page rule
5. Learn to bail out

Chain-reading is no problem, I have a stack of books waiting to be read.

I do read for pleasure - why else should I read? (there is of course required studies for courses but I study on my own)

Speed-reading has never been my cup of tea, have tried it but realised my speed depends on what kind of books I read. Fiction goes faster, in fact-books I am the kind of person that underlines and makes notes in the book.

Number four is interesting, Whenever you pick up your book, read 50 pages or more. I do not need to finish a chapter but I do not always read 50 pages or more. Time to increase volume to reach (at least) one book a week.

Bailing out is no problem, it is human to pick a book that turns out wrong but there is no need to finish it.

Nick has created the One Book a Week Club over at Goodreads, a place where you can get book recommendations from people you know. In less than two years Goodreads has got over 1,000,000 members and over 20,000,000 books added to member profiles. Amazing, I joined Goodreads and Nick’s group and will see how it works out.

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