Reading more

Books!
I’ve never been a heavy reader. When I was a teenager, I always wanted to read more but it always finished the same way : me going out to play basketball or to roller-skate.

Getting older, and with a new 2020 resolution, I’ve decided that I definitely should read more this year.

June 4th : 3

3 books !!! Some people read 3 books in a ten days.
That’s not really what I hoped five months later. 😔

What happened ? Well, I had a good start but then that crappy COVID-19 pandemic hit us everywhere. A lot of time spent reading about that virus online and watching TV news. All that was useless because nobody really knew or knows if it will come back or not. Are we safe or not ? Will all these protests around the globe bring a new wave of c-19 cases ?

That was one of the reason, the second one is the TV. I started that IMDB list of movies that I want to see. There are 250 of them and I’ve seen only 110 of them. On top of that, there is Netflix, that filthy innovation, that keeps you watching episodes over episodes with that auto-playing feature until it stops and asks you :

That’s the moment you need to take to escape and run far away from your TV … or just turn it off. I’ve spent around 10 hours watching “The Last Dance”, I enjoyed the show but I should have put some boundaries like one episode - 50 pages read of any book. That would have helped me to read more.

The last thing that took me a lot of times, is the #100DaysToOffload challenge and everything around it. Don’t get me wrong, keeping writing every day for the last 34 days in a row is an enjoyable experience that I will push to the 100 days goal and probably beyond that. First time I write so much… but it requires time, time over my reading.

That challenge brought me a lot of things : the indieweb and a lot of new people to follow over the fediverse and/or their blogs. But, every morning, there is a ton of new posts to read and that is really time-consuming. My reply to Mike’s toot about how many open tabs he has was nothing compared to my browser. Currently, I have 347 open tabs of things I wanted to read later and … wait for it … 3950 unread bookmarks on my Wallabag.

It’s time to let it go.

There is just too much online content and 3-4 lifetime would not be enough to go through everything I would love to do.

Cherry-picking what really matters to me is going to be my objective and hopefully I will be glad about my choices.

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