![]() ![]() ![]() If you like great, if not or timing is hard, put down til next time.įWIW it’s the best book on that topic I’ve ever read. If you’re interested in that topic (and I imagine so given you bought the book), do yourself a favor and commit to reading 10 pages this weekend. It should be noted I am a writer and therefore I am biased in all my opinions about buying books :) Reply Plus, now I don’t feel so bad that I haven’t had a chance to read ‘Confessions of a Public Speaker’ that’s been sitting on my desk for 6 months :) Reply How To Design A Book Cover (The Ghost of My Father)ģ7 Responses to “Why It’s OK To Buy Books And Not Read Them”.3 reasons you should see the movie Wild (if you’re a writer).Help wanted: design literacy for everyone project.Sale Today: 50% off paperback edition of How Design Makes The World.Never finishing books is a different problem, and the solution for that is buying better books. In fact since I bought the book, I paid for the right to read as much or little as I please. If I don’t like it after 50 pages I owe the author nothing. They’re not children, they’re invented things. I feel no guilt now in abandoning books either. Seeing a good writer’s name and knowing I helped their career feels good ( hint hint).It provisions future curiosity, since in 3 months or years I can easily read that book.It’s a bestseller list – not a best read list – buying a book signals agents, editors and publishers.Purchases signal the creator that I’m interested in what they made.Our couches are mostly not sat in. It’s rare for a thing to be used as much as it could be.īuying books also has these larger effects: If I never read any of the books that might be a problem, but merely not reading some of them is entirely sensible. That willingness to buy books signals to myself there are new worlds other creators make, and for the price of a meal I can purchase the opportunity to discover them. It’s good to take bets on books at the limits of my comfort zone. As a writer I need an ambitious curiosity, not a safe one. The goal should not be efficiency because efficiency makes you conservative. One day I realized there was another way to frame my behavior. It was yet another kind of information I seemed to be drowning in. It was a destructive cycle and it drove me mad. And no matter how many books I’d read in a year, I’d always find myself buying more. They’d sit in piles making me feel unworthy as a writer, and reader. I used to feel guilty about books I own but haven’t read.
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