Book Consumption Efficiency

Table of Contents

• Time Management and Prioritization
• Quality over Quantity
• Timing and Mood
• Value and Impact of Books
• Speed and Enjoyment
• Books as Companions
• Challenges and Realizations
• Other

Time Management and Prioritization

So many books, so little time.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver

Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

There’s just never enough time to read all the books you want.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven’t read, that we haven’t had the time to read.

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Quality over Quantity

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Don’t waste your time with books you can’t give your heart to.

Because life’s too short to read depressing books.

Timing and Mood

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

It is a great pity to read a book too soon in life.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Do not rush when you read, a book has no expiration date.

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

Value and Impact of Books

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

Great books conserve time.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

Books are a time machine.

Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

Speed and Enjoyment

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

But first I’ve got to get another book: How to Break the [SPOILER] When Native Americans Have Had Too Much Time on Their Hands.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Life is too short to spend on a book you don't enjoy.

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.

Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly.

Books as Companions

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

People who love books never have spare time!

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

Challenges and Realizations

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.

Time flies but books are timeless...

It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don’t know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I’m about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won’t live to read.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble – some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves – but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I’m increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision – Barbara Kingsolver.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

Other

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

So many great books to read, when will I finish reading all these books?

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

You should always make time for books

There's just never enough time to read all the books you want.

I should infinitely prefer a book...

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

I think those books do have the same feeling as the big movies. You know you're going to get lost in this world. A shorter book can't quite do that.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

For each book, the time is also broken up.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.

When I’m tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books.

You should always make time for books.

I don’t know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I’m going to be dead before I read the books I’m going to read.

Here’s another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

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