What I'm reading
My books are like the stars in my galaxy.
Stats for Q1 & Q2 of 2022
Category: nonfiction (93%), fiction (7%)
Most read genres: science & philosophy (each 32%); politics & history (each 29%); psychology (14%)
Published in: 2020s (46%), 2010s (39%), earlier (15%)
Number of pages: <300 (69%), <500 (28%), >500 (3%)
Written by: men (68%), women (21%), both (11%)
Yes, I would like to read more books by female authors.
Goodhart’s Law doesn’t apply since I don’t care about the percentage.
Stats will be updated by January 2023.
A little bit of advice
Genesis Library has more than ten million free ebooks. Make sure to tip deserving writers though.
eReader Prestigio allows unlimited WaveNet text-to-speech conversions for a monthly fee.
Calibre is by far the best free ebook management software.
Audible has nice audiobooks, though at a cost. Not a big fan of Amazon though.
E-readers seem pretty nice. I don’t have experience with them though.
Radically diversify your sources, read voraciously, and remember:
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood