I like to read and want to read atleast a 1000 books in my life... The problem is I get distracted whenever a chapter is over or an article ends... How to resume it ASAP and what's the trick you follow to keep on reading... Hope you share.

Regards,
Prabhakaran

 

My book is on the night stand. If I'm too tired, I don't read, otherwise it could be a late night.

 

I get audio books and listen when I drive.

 

what's the trick you follow to keep on reading

Some books aren't worth the bother if they're not interesting to you. I finally got through a book where the author used different spellings for some common English words. It took me several tries. Now I'm waiting for the 3rd book.

I still haven't been able to force myself to read Dune; though I've watched several Dune-based movies...

I'm a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan and re-read the first 3 books of The Rowan series by Anne McCaffrey last week. Couldn't find the 4th book or I would have re-read it in a couple days.

 

Your intention of reading a certain amount as a goal, makes no sense to me. Are you competing with whom? Yourself?

The key word is interest (curiosity?). Forcing yourself to read a book you're not interested in is horrible.

 

-The key word is interest (curiosity?).
-Forcing yourself to read a book you're not interested in is horrible.

My thoughts exactly!

 

I like to read and want to read atleast a 1000 books in my life...

To what end?

If you are so disinterested in them that you have to force yourself to read them, you are unlikely to take much of anything of value from the effort and it is time not spent doing something that you might actually enjoy.

 

+++

Read books that interest you. Period. You can’t tell whether a book will capture you beforehand. If it does not, try another one.

Edited to add: When you find an author you like, read another book of theirs. If it is a series, start at the beginning and read them in order. I have spent the last year reading Agatha Christie. About 70 Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot books. I am sad that I am almost finished.

Read to enjoy! Then it is not work.

 

Never continue to read a Book that doesn't interest You.

Never go past a word that You do not completely understand,
doing this will just put you to sleep,
and leave everything after that word a complete BLANK in your Mind.

Some people have a "Photographic-Memory" and can
regurgitate a Book word for word while not actually understanding what was written or why.
This is a complete and grotesque waste of time, as there is no learning taking place.
.
.
.

 

I have spent the last year reading Agatha Christie.

Same here - all the Marples followed by all the Poirots followed by the others.
Now I've moved onto Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford.
I buy second-hand paperbacks for £2.50 a go from ABEBooks, then take them to the village book exchange which is housed in the now-redundant telephone box when I've finished.