How To Read More Books
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1. Always have a book on you
Most people read 0-4 books per year. The people who read 30-50 report dramatically different lives, better careers, richer thinking. The gap isn’t intelligence or time — it’s system. Here’s how to close the gap.
2. Read 20 pages before bed
Make reading frictionless and put it where phone time was.
3. Quit bad books fast
Physical book or Kindle app, paired with e-ink or phone. Turns queue time, commute, waiting rooms into reading time. The single biggest reader-vs-non-reader difference: having the book available.
4. Audiobooks count
Replaces phone scrolling, which kills sleep anyway. 20 pages a night = 30 books a year at average reading speed. The most durable habit.
5. Track what you read
Sunk-cost fallacy ruins readers. If a book isn’t working by page 50, drop it. Life’s too short for bad books. The best readers DNF (“did not finish”) often.
6. Take notes while reading
Purists are wrong; retention studies show audiobooks work fine for most content. Commutes, walks, chores — 1-2x hours a day of audiobooks = 20+ extra books a year. Libro.fm, Audible, Libby (free via library).
7. Mix fiction and nonfiction
Goodreads, a notes app, a bookshelf photo at year-end. Tracking creates a subtle accountability. You’ll finish more books when you can see the stack growing.
8. Join a book club or online community
All nonfiction gets dry. All fiction feels unrewarding. Alternate — one of each. Fiction teaches empathy and pattern recognition; nonfiction teaches facts and frameworks. Both matter.
9. Reread great books
Accountability accelerates reading. r/books, Goodreads groups, or in-person. Discussing books forces you to think about them more deeply and remember more.
10. Read fewer, slower, deeper
A second or third read of a classic often gives more than a first read of a mediocre new book. You notice what you missed, connect to new life experience. “Read 100 books or read 10 books 10 times.”