Too many things to read

You know how women have the guilty (or not guilty) pleasure of buying lots of shoes, bags, clothes, earrings, or painting your nails at riduculous prices which no one will notice etc... You know the "buy lots of things but seldom use them" kind of things. Oh yah... Painting nails does not fall into this category...

Actually I too have a guilty pleasure in this category which is books. I love to buy books and hog them, even keep textbooks, I buy books just like how women buy shoes. You buy a lot but seldom wore them. In my case, with a little difference, I do read them but I don't finish reading.

Sometimes, I buy a book and I could just read a few pages and forget to read it again. The reason is not that I lost interest in the book, the reason is that there are too many things to read! Imagine reading newspapers, textbooks (if you are studying), magazines that you subscribed, your emails newsletters, library books that you borrowed and books that you have bought. Including the normal life that you are leading, like spending time with people, that don't really leave a lot of time for reading everything...

I saw this book review on The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (maybe I should buy it), what it writes about is how internet has change the way our brain think. It has make us less focus and introspective because now there is too much information. We are now skimming through information instead of digesting it and focusing on a topic at a time. I always felt it is a waste not to be able to have enough time to think and read well.

Maybe when I have decided to take a year rest from work, I can finally finish reading all the books I have bought. Or maybe after that I should become a librarian, so that I can have access to all the knowledge that I want. Or maybe I should think about why I want to read about so many stuff......