Readers block

One significant helping against readers block I found for myself this year is to always have multiple future sample books inside the Kindle App. So I never run out of a book. And if one does not fit me, I can go to the next sample book until I find my next book.

I’ve also stopped reading books that don’t grab me, as interesting as they may seem and as acclaimed as their recommenders insist. If I’m reading something and I find myself daydreaming or wanting to check my phone or switching to an episode of something on Netflix, that’s a sign that I should put it down and find another book. The only problem with this is that some of my favorite books (Infinite Jest for one) did not grab me in the beginning but picked up in a major way later, sometimes hundreds of pages in. Great books sometimes do not hand everything to the reader on a silver platter and the hard work they demand becomes part of their reward.

⤑ Readers block.

That is the main issue I still fight with. I cannot stop a book once I’ve started it, not mather that I would instead like to read something else. And I know sometimes you need to give a book one hundred pages until it starts to get interesting. So I always fear that I would give up on the title to early.