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🥇 "I'm Winston Wolfe, I solve problems". I work in SEO, WordPress and Strategy. I post about old books, movies and music.

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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

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@skaeth @bookstodon what about this situation, how do books that you only need to read one or two chapters? Do you feel obligued to read the rest of it? what about the preceding chapters? or the next ones?

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@skaeth @bookstodon i have been reading sections when researching something for work on textbooks for marketing and communication. For history or sciences, i prefer to read the whole thing. I don't thing this works for fiction books however.

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@skaeth @bookstodon essay books can be read on a chapter/article base too

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@skaeth @bookstodon i try to read the whole book but don't rush it. It might take me some time (months) to read it as a whole because i just read one or two chapters per book per day. And I have several books on reading at the same time.

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