Effective way of reading a book

• Quit reading if the book doesn't feel right for you
• don't worry about the sunk-cost
• Read multiple books - possibly multiple genres - at a time, rather than sequentially
• remember you did it in your high school
• Don't put it on the wish-list, start right-away
• don't expect any delayed gratification
•  Non-sequential learning
• skip to chapter that looks interesting -> finish it 
• "If it was good, I could decide where to go from there. But if it wasn’t, I would know that it’s time to move on."
• "That’s why I avoid the whole business and self-help category because you generally have one good idea and it’s buried in hundreds or thousands of pages and lots of anecdotes."
• Reference 

• Want-to-read-more-books-without-losing-comprehension
• learn-to-resist-regression 

• Reading an hour daily has many benefits
• BBC: how-to-cultivate-a-daily-reading-habit
• Rule of 50: the idea is to read 50 pages and then decide if the book – in the words of Marie Kondo – “sparks joy”. If it doesn’t, give it up.

Another source of good books recommended by famous/successful people:

• The CEO Library: books recommended by people we look up to