Hello readers and welcome to our Weekly FAQ thread! Our topic this week is: How do I get through an uninteresting book? Sometimes we want to read something because we're "supposed to" and want to say that we did. Or, it's something that needs to be read for a school assignment. Either way, how do you get through books you find uninteresting?
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Know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Set aside time to just do it, and use something I actually want to read as a reward for reading x pages or x about of time.
YOU DON’T.
Just stop reading.
There are more books in this world than anyone could ever possibly count, much less read. Even if you did nothing but read your entire life, you’d never get through more than a fraction of a percent of them.
If the book isn’t hitting you right, move on to another book. Stop surrendering your time and patience to the sunk cost fallacy.
Some people on this subreddit talk about reading like it’s some sort of penance or punishment, rather than a hobby or a way to learn things. You talk about DNFing books the way a pregnant teenager weighs up adoption and abortion and keeping the baby.