I’m a very slow reader. Always have been. And yet when people hear of the books I’ve read over the course of a year, they tell me they wish they could read more. I’ve found several reading strategies to be very helpful. Even if you employ just one of the ideas below, you can read a half dozen or more books in a year:
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Francis Schaeffer: Fifty Years after Time
Fifty years ago today, Time magazine published an article on Francis Schaeffer, who with his wife founded “one of the most unusual missions in the Western world.” What made their ministry, nestled in the Swiss Alps, so different? They focused on intellectuals–artists, musicians, students, atheists, Jews, Catholics and Protestants–an eclectic mix of people that in 1960 the church tended to neglect.
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The 2010 Andys
Last week I posted what I read in 2009. Here’s the best, the most, the worst and the biggest of what I read this past year:
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What I Read in 2009
I continue my annual tradition of listing the books I’ve read in the past year, in the order I read them. Reading is part of my job, but I enjoy the busman’s holiday of reading on my own time. Some of the books I borrowed, some I bought, some were given to me and some I got from the library. Several I listened to while riding around town on errands and commuting to work. In those cases, I’ve linked to the audio version.
So here are the books of 2009:
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Sic Transit?
Dan Reid pointed out to me a comment left on a sister IVP blog, Addenda & Errata.
The comment: Tell us what you think about a piece by Steven Piersanti, president of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, titled “The 10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing.”
The response: This brief piece with a provocative title is a reality check for everyone connected to book publishing.
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Proving a Publisher’s Worth
In a comment on my recent post, Mark Denning asked what I thought about Stephen “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Covey moving electronic rights to some of his books exclusively to Amazon, as reported in this morning’s New York Times. So here are some first thoughts, Mark.
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The Next Chapter of Reading
Regular Andy Unedited reader Jadell alerted me to this item from Jeffrey Brown. Where is the book going? Where is reading going? That’s the question Brown wants to tackle in an occasional series for PBS.
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E-Reader Overview
Want a handy summary of the Kindles, Nooks, Pockets and Cool-ers of the world? Danielle Belopotosky offers us a good overview of the variety of e-reader devices available in her recent piece in The New York Times.
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Who Will Own the Copyright?
I am neither a lawyer nor the son of a lawyer (though I am the father of a lawyer). So I am legally unqualified to give you any advice about anything (enough for the disclaimer). But I get asked questions.
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Is Professionalism a Dirty Word?
My wife, Phyllis, was assigned the task of giving a talk on professionalism. She asked me, “What would you say?”
Professionalism can have negative connotations–being artificial or phony. I suppose for some that’s what it is. But that’s not how I think of it.
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