{"id":70820,"date":"2026-04-13T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/?p=70820"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:05:10","slug":"35-ideas-for-how-to-read-more-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/35-ideas-for-how-to-read-more-6\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Ideas For How To Read More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"toc\" style=\"background: #f9f9f9;border: 1px solid #aaa;display: table;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 1em;width: 350px;\">\n<p class=\"toctitle\" style=\"font-weight: 700;text-align: center;\">Content<\/p>\n<ul class=\"toc_list\">\n<li><a href=\"#toc-0\">Be an active reader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#toc-1\">How to Enjoy Reading More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#toc-2\">Put your phone away<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>You could also resolve to get through 10 or 25 or 100 pages per day, or set a goal of reading one book per week or a certain number per year. I thrive when I have specific benchmarks to work toward, so I aim to read 50 pages a day. Embark on a quest to read every book featured on this year\u2019s New York Times hardcover nonfiction best sellers list, for example, or to read something published each year from the time you were born. \u201cWe sometimes tell ourselves stories about our reading lives that aren\u2019t necessarily true. Short works like these aren\u2019t as daunting as longer tomes and can motivate you to find a reading routine that will work best for you, Moreno says. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be like, \u2018I\u2019m going to read War and Peace,\u2019\u201d says Chasity Moreno, who works in the New York Public Library\u2019s Reader Services department.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"toc-0\">Be an active reader<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps it feels counterintuitive, but by giving yourself permission to call it quits, you\u2019ll make space for books you\u2019d enjoy much more\u2014and there\u2019s no better way to feed your reading motivation than that. Bogel often asks people what\u2019s deterring them from reading, and the answer is that they\u2019re stuck in the middle of a book they don\u2019t want to finish. Ask the prolific readers you encounter for recommendations or to tell you about the last great book they read. \u201cSometimes you don\u2019t have the time to sit and read,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toc-1\">How to Enjoy Reading More<\/h3>\n<p>To me, it feels like going to <a href=\"https:\/\/findmsinteractive.info\/\">MS Interactive<\/a> going figuring out what kind of food you want to eat for dinner. For author Emma Straub, the question of what to read next is one of reading&#8217;s great joys. Booktoker Zang calls the beginning of the book the &quot;beginning borings.&quot; She challenges herself to make it through until she feels invested \u2014 or she doesn&#8217;t. But it\u2019s worth finding the niches that get you excited, at least to get into the habit. &quot;A lot of people who don&#8217;t read or want to read see reading as something that needs to be intellectually stimulating \u2014 and it doesn&#8217;t,&quot; Zang says. Think about the parts of your routine that are now automatic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For example, Alistair MacIntyre\u2019s After Virtue is super hard to understand when you\u2019re reading it at a snail\u2019s pace; it\u2019d be impossible to comprehend if you sped through it.<\/li>\n<li>Short works like these aren\u2019t as daunting as longer tomes and can motivate you to find a reading routine that will work best for you, Moreno says.<\/li>\n<li>I love the feel of a crisp new hardcover, but I don\u2019t love dropping the $30 at traditional retailers.<\/li>\n<li>You could also resolve to get through 10 or 25 or 100 pages per day, or set a goal of reading one book per week or a certain number per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"toc-2\">Put your phone away<\/h2>\n<p>Uncover a suitable space for reading to make it feel more like joy than a job. Consider these tips, based on my back-and-forth experience and a trickle of data, if you long to read more this year. I\u2019ve fallen in love with reading again (and a few books, too), and you can too. I\u2019d either buy books that sat untouched on my nightstand for ages or get discouraged by a book I didn\u2019t connect with, letting months go by without picking up another. Her superpower is matching people up with the perfect book.<\/p>\n<p>Libby is an online book database that connects to your local library\u2019s catalogue, allowing you to download books directly to your smartphone or e-reader. If you\u2019re an avid audiobook listener, Audible also offers a monthly subscription. I love the feel of a crisp new hardcover, but I don\u2019t love dropping the $30 at traditional retailers. One of my favorite corners of Instagram is #Bookstagram, where readers post aesthetically pleasing photos of their favorite books.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toc-3\">Not sure what to read next? Start here!<\/h3>\n<p>&quot;Set a reading timer for five minutes per day. Read anything, but it has to be on paper,&quot; she says. On her online book group, Zang, 23, sees many other readers go through a similar transition. If you\u2019re speed reading Dickens or Austen (yes, there\u2019s a place for Jane Austen in a man\u2019s library), you\u2019re going to miss out on prose that should be relished.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"toc-4\">Did this article help you?<\/h3>\n<p>A few minutes of downtime between activities or appointments may seem trivial, but they soon add up to hours, and to entire books read; there\u2019s great possibilities in spare moments! You\u2019ll be amazed at how many books you can knock off in a month by reading an hour a day. Instead of doing your typical time-wasting smartphone scan at those times, you\u2019ll read. If you\u2019re looking to increase your physical and mental library and read more books this year, maybe they\u2019ll work for you too. When I posted a collage of my favorite of those 120 reads on Instagram, a lot of guys asked me what my secret was for digesting that many tomes in 12 months. As with most habits that can greatly impact your life, this will never feel urgent, but it is important.<\/p>\n<p>I also don\u2019t speed read fiction. For example, Alistair MacIntyre\u2019s After Virtue is super hard to understand when you\u2019re reading it at a snail\u2019s pace; it\u2019d be impossible to comprehend if you sped through it. They make extensive use of headings, bolded first sentences, and bulleted lists. For that reason, I don\u2019t like speed reading. While it is possible, with lots of practice, to increase reading speed while maintaining decent comprehension, there\u2019s inevitably going to be some comprehension loss the faster you go. As mentioned above, when people ask me how I read so many books, they often assume I\u2019m speed reading.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up the momentum by saving books you\u2019re interested in, whether it\u2019s a list on your phone or saved on a digital wishlist. Play around with different days and times of the day to see when it feels accessible and pleasurable for you to read. But now that I read more, it has become one of my favorite parts of the day. There was a time when the feeling of a paperback felt too overwhelming, and it was audiobooks that got me into reading, to and from work. As you read more, you can also follow along with Read With Jenna\u2019s Streaking With Jenna, a 2023 initiative inviting readers to keep a reading streak going throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if books feel like too much, you can turn to short-story collections or long-form journalism. And when you do, think of it less like a to-do list and more like a treasure trove. Consider signing up for newsletters with book recommendations and glancing at book lists that interest you to keep that list growing. Reading will come far more naturally if you focus on what you enjoy and close the cover on what you don\u2019t. And if you pick a book you don\u2019t enjoy, try not to be hard on yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Be an active reader How to Enjoy Reading More Put your phone away You could also resolve to get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-findmsinteractive-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71079,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820\/revisions\/71079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computer.isufi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}