I once would read anything and everything. However, time is limited and I want to build out certain areas of my life. I have resigned myself to select magazines and books using an easy strategy (that works for me).
I frequently purchase books. I also subscribe to several magazines. Plus, I receive books from people and from publishers. So, I have a system of how to handle them all.
I handle books and magazines by doing one of the following:
- Reading cover to cover
- Skimming
- Giving away
I normally read from one of these categories:
- Biographies
- Leadership
- Spiritual disciplines
- Gen Y
- Human behavior
*Sometimes I will simply read an executive summary to determine if I want to read the entire book.
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I’m kind of the same way. I skim, skip around, and work through probably 3 books at a time. I also probably finish only 20% of them. That’s mostly because I think 80% of books are too long. By the time you get to the last 1/3, they are only rehashing their main point.