- any current self-help style book can be discarded without further thought
- navy seal anecdotes call for an instant binning
- bad prose joins the others in the furnace
Serious points aside, your steps don't work for non-fiction. Well, not the kind worth reading anyway. How would you do so with a novel?
I go by recommendations or author I like. Maybe a classic I've heard about. Sometimes I find a volume in a public space and give it a skim. I read as long as I get enjoyment out of it. If it is a drain or badly written I stop. Same with films.
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- any current self-help style book can be discarded without further thought
- navy seal anecdotes call for an instant binning
- bad prose joins the others in the furnace
Serious points aside, your steps don't work for non-fiction. Well, not the kind worth reading anyway. How would you do so with a novel?
I go by recommendations or author I like. Maybe a classic I've heard about. Sometimes I find a volume in a public space and give it a skim. I read as long as I get enjoyment out of it. If it is a drain or badly written I stop. Same with films.