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

The Reader's Journey

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How to Speed Read

There's no one best format. Try out different ones. Depending on what situation or what kind of lifestyle you are, you may like a different medium more than another one. If I'm going on a vacation, I don't want to carry a backpack full of books. And then I've got all the reading that I need for the whole vacation. Sometimes I have a bad back. And sometimes my back is acting up. I really need to get horizontal. Man, is it easier to read on a Kindle when you're lying on your back than it is to hold up one of those thousand page books, right? You're afraid you're going to drop it and break your sternum

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