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Stop Setting Reading Goals
Loving and Hating Wordrunner
In December of last year, I dutifully set my reading goals for this year on Goodreads. I made a list of the 52 books that would get me there, and I checked off the first few in January.
Then life got in the way. An overwhelmingly busy work schedule. Kid activities restarting. Life.
The year sped along (as they tend to do), and I found out recently how far behind I am (Goodread clearly states how far off your goal you are when you log in — so helpful?).
What should be motivating, now seems daunting.
I cheated a bit by picking some shorter books that weren’t on my list. In a burst of motivation, I completed 10 books towards my goal in the last month.
Meanwhile, Amazon’s summer reading program in which you could earn points towards discounts on future ebook purchases was helpful in terms of purchasing the books on my list, but not in the reading of those books.
Even as I rushed to buy more books during the points period, I realized how silly it was to purchase books that could be purchased instantaneously in the future when I was ready to read them.
Then I remembered that the Kindle app has Wordrunner which is a speed reading setting that allows you to fly through books and pick up speed over…
