links for 2010-02-08
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"After a decade of browsing, blogging, linking, clicking and Tweeting, I find it nearly impossible to focus on a book even when I try to recreate a reading environment that mirrors a more technologically simple time." I find it much harder than I used to, but I can still get there. I get there with good writing, whether that be fiction or non-fiction. I don't get there with mediocre writing anymore. I find that this reduces the amount of crap I read.
Posted February 8th, 2010 in del.icio.us Links by del.icio.us Linkdumper.
I don’t find reading harder than I used to (obviously, with my 50-60 books a year), but I do not have the patience to sit through a crap book anymore. I am much more likely to put a book down, never to pick it up again, if I am not enjoying it in the first 50 pages than to give it the benefit of the doubt and push through it, looking for redeeming qualities.
February 9th, 2010 at 08:08