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8. Alan Jacobs: How to Get More Pleasure Out of Your Reading

The Reader's Journey

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Can You Recommend Me the Five Best Books?

"I found your book very, it's a like a light read. It's a lot more enjoyable," he says of Adler's work. "If I don't have that kind of personal knowledge about them, they might as well just Google it." But maybe even better than Googling is to try to learn how to follow your own readerly nose and get better at recommending books to yourself.

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