When to quit a bad book
Taken from an article on Farnham Street, ‘How to Remember What You Read’ [c]:
Share:Author and librarian Nancy Pearl advocates the “Rule of 50.” This entails reading the first 50 pages of a book and then deciding if it is worth finishing. The Rule of 50 has an interesting feature: once you are over the age of 50, subtract your age from 100 and read that many pages.
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