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The myth of keeping up with your reading

6 May 2006 by Frank Meeuwsen

The blog “Creating Passionate Users” has “an excellent write-up”:http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/the_myth_of_kee.html on why you will never keep up with all your reading and how you can help yourself reducing the amount of information you want or need to absorb. One of the best

Don’t file it. Don’t store it. What you don’t have piling up you can’t feel guilty about. Some people put little height limits on their “to read” stack. (OK, when it gets as high as that drawer, I must throw out the oldest 50%…)

I am also interested in the “GetAbstract”:http://www.getabstract.com/index.jsp service. I will definitely try this one out the coming days…

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  1. Chris Walker says

    12 May 2006 at 8:44 pm

    In addition to GetAbstract, you might also check-out Soundview Executive Book Summaries (www.summary.com). Their summaries are available in print, online/download, CD, and MP3 download.
    CW

  2. Matthew Cornell says

    19 May 2006 at 3:11 am

    I agree we’ll never be able to read everything. However, reading more efficiently can certainly help. I wrote a bit about it here:
    http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-read-lot-of-books-in-short-time.html
    http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2006/04/double-your-income-in-year-by-reading.html

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