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   Tim Richards (timrichards@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 15:53:45 JST Tim Richards

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   • Erin Bee

   @erinbee I don't understand the point of goals involving numbers; reading should be about quality, not quantity. My reading goal is never to waste time on a boring book, and to savour the good ones.

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     Erin Bee (erinbee@gorgon.city)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 15:53:46 JST Erin Bee

     For a moment, I felt a twinge of inadequacy when people started posting their 2025 reading goals, often of 100+ books. The goal I set myself was to finish 24. Then I remembered that I know myself: If I am in the mood for fiction, I probably could fly through close to 100. But when I'm into nonfiction, I'm slow. Not methodical, but I get stopped and distracted by questions that drag me into a Wikipedia hole. Or I go looking for out of print references on the Internet Archive.