5 Pro Book Reading Tips 🤓

Issue #16 : These pro-reading tips will help you to elevate your book-reading journey and experience.

I shared a few tips who are dabbling with book reading.

But if you are a bookworm, I have a few pro tips for you.

These tips have helped me to read more books and remember the learnings from these books. 

Here are my pro-reading tips

1. If you listen to audiobooks, try listening to them at 1.25x speed next time. The 10 hr book will save you 2 hrs at 1.25x and 3 hrs at 1.5x speed. Try this calculator to find the time savings of playback speed. 

2. Don't try to go back and reread a page or chapter multiple times; you can do the book summary later.

3. Want to read/listen/watch a quick book summary before or after you read a book? These resources will help:

   • Try the Blinkist app to read/listen to book summaries 

   • My favorite YouTube channel for excellent visual book summaries: ReadAndGrow, TheSwedishInvestor.

   • Shortform (paid), Fourminutebooks (Free) have a vast collection of book summaries.

4. Use an app like Readwise to read your or popular highlights of books you have read in the past. The app will send an email at your scheduled time with highlights of your books on kindle (you can upload a picture of your actual book highlights as well) and popular highlights from other readers. I love this app because reviewing the book's highlights is a great way to remember the key learnings from all the books I have read. 

   

5. Try these apps to supercharge your book-reading experience.

   1. Audible — Largest audiobook collection.

   2. Blinkist — Short audio and textbook summaries.

   3. Goodreads — Online community for book readers.

   4. Readwise — Get your (and others) popular book highlights from kindle delivered to your inbox.

Reading books has helped me grow a lot. The books have been a reliable mentor in my quest for personal and professional growth. 

You can find a solution or answer to almost anything in a book. 

[On a different note, here’s something I’m excited to share to help you boost your productivity and performance through better writing in 2025]

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Happy reading (aka learning + growing) 😀