How do i start reading?

Questions to those who started reading books with the goal to start reading books: How did you motivate yourself to read something?

I have a few

Try to detach yourself from the Internet. You will have nothing else to do if you don't have access to the Internet.

Start with books that interest you and are easy to read and finish, then move to harder ones

incrementalism. if you haven't read in years, you shouldn't immediately try to read the western canon in order. Pick the book that inspired you to want to read, and read it, taking as much time as you need

Start with small books, and always carry one around with you everywhere. Eventually when you're bored at a bus stop or something, you can pull it out and read a few pages, and once you start you'll be inclined to keep going.

If you're at home, you'll default to accessing your computer and internet over reading, so you won't read. Make sure you have access to your books away from home, during your commute or during lunch break and such.

Find the kind of book you really love and can't put down, stick to it until your taste evolves and you want something else... and repeat the process...

I'll add a list of literature that I feel can be fun from front to back [even] for someone just starting. Maybe you can check out the first pages on amazon or something and find sth you like.

Kosztolányi: Kornel Esti
Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Murakami: (doesn't really matter what)
Kafka: The Metamorphosis
Thompson: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
Dürrenmatt: The Judge and His Hangman

Another piece of advice: If you have a book that you'd like to read, sit down with the goal of reading at least 10 pages. 10 pages isn't much, it'll not take you more than a quarter of an hour. What often happens is that after half a page you feel bored and want to put a book down, but after 10 pages a good book will have you hooked already. If it hasn't, let it go and try another time maybe.

I keep telling myself that reading only has positives outcomes.

books are wisdom. no wisdom makes you a dumbfuck. being a dumbfuck is bad?

I didn't have to motivate myself - I wanted to read, so I did. That's all there is to it tbqphwyf

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