Posted by Ryan
November 17, 2007
If I were to choreograph a horse race (I have no idea how one would do that) in which the horses represented the books I’m reading it’d be something sort of like this.
The first horse out the gate would run very fast for about 10 yards and then stop and lay down. Every so often it’ll stand up and run for a little bit.
The second horse out of the gate would do the same.
The third horse would step out and return to the gate.
The fourth horse would run out of the gate backwards and run around the track (backwards!) in record time.
Instead of waiting for the first 3 horses to finish, another horse usually bolts from the gate. Some of these lay down, others run off the track, others return to the gate, and others run around a few times before they decide they’re done.
Okay, so what all that means is that I’ve always got several books in my “currently reading” list, but the speed at which I read them varies greatly. There always seems to be one book that I pick up on a whim and finish before the all the others.
The horse running backwards is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It’s running backwards because it’s such a weird book. It seemed natural.
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
- The Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX
“What?”
Yeah. The book is full of stuff like that. It’s incredibly weird, but quite entertaining.
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Posted by Ryan
November 3, 2007
42. Not only is it the answer to everything, but it’s also the number of times you have you said “I don’t have time to read books.”
Okay, maybe you haven’t said that, but you probably know someone who has. I do read books, but I’ve also been known to wish for more time to read.
And then I go read blogs and/or email for 3 hours.
Thankfully, other people have this same problem. What happens when you have a problem that many people have? Someone comes up with a cool solution.
We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.
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Posted by Ryan
June 16, 2007
After reading this article, High Tech India: A Minefield of Challenges, I realized something. I read weird. Maybe it’s not so weird, but I do it pretty often. When I come across an article of some kind I’ll scan the first paragraph or so. If it looks interesting I’ll read the whole thing straight through. If I’m not interested enough to read all of it I’ll skip down to the bottom and read the conclusion. Then, if that’s more interesting I’ll read the previous paragraph, then maybe the next, etc.
Here’s how I read the Yahoo! article (which is a little bit different from what I just described):
As you can see, I didn’t finish reading it. I quickly scanned the remaining paragraphs, but nothing really caught my eye enough to entice me to read more.
Do you ever do this? I’m guessing it’s more common than I think, meaning I’m not that weird after all.
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