What To Do With All Those Book Recommendation Twitter Threads. A Simple Hack.
I’ve run across hundreds of Twitter threads of book recommendations.
It’s definitely more books than I’ve got time to read them. Most thread authors help you out and summarize the main points. But what if you wanted to dive deeper, but not deep enough to buy the book and commit the time?
Lifehack: The GoodReads Review. Okay, not really a hack, but this has helped me get the gist of a ton of books I didn’t have to read.
Here are some things to keep in mind:
- You get what you pay for. Free is sometimes good. But sometimes it’s not. You’re at the mercy of the reviewer. Over time, I’ve come to rely on certain reviewers for certain genres.
- Interact and engage with the review. Write notes on the review. Pull some ideas of your own out of it. It would be two levels removed from the original author’s message, but it doesn’t mean it’s not meaningful, or usable, for you.
- Contact the reviewer and thank them. They’ve distilled the book into it’s essential parts (at least in the reviewer’s eyes) and took roughly ten hours of work off your hands.
There are simply too many books to read. Pick wisely. For the ones that don’t make your coveted list, there’s always the GoodReads review.
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” — Francis Bacon
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