Posts Tagged ‘reading’

Back to School: Keep an Academic Reading Journal

Aside from partying, the thing you're probably going to do most in college is read. Assuming you're at all serious about your education, you'll read so much that words will come out your ears. Unfortunately, much of what you read will also go pouring out your ears, or so it will seem looking back. One of the best habits you can develop in college -- or even in high school, if… Continue reading

August 27 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, journal, learning, reading, student, university | 14 comments»

How to Get Audiobooks Onto Your Zune – and Off Again

Although I am a professional writer and blogger, although I keep up with the latest tech trends, although I am, might I say, something of a geek, I do not iPod. I don’t even iPhone. This is not a political nor even a religious position, it is simply the Way That It Is. When Microsoft released the Zune, I scoffed. Until one day, I sauntered past the Zune display at… Continue reading

July 3 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: audiobook, hack, media-player, reading, zune | 12 comments»

13 Things to Do with a Moleskine Notebook

We here at Lifehack have been huge advocates of the Moleskine as a tool for ubiquitous capture -- for jotting down ideas whenever and wherever they occur to you. They're also great for keeping your task list and other information you might need over the course of the day. But those are hardly the only things a Moleskine is useful for! These days, Moleskines come in all sizes and colors, in

April 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, family, journal, log, moleskine, notebook, reading, record | 23 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Your Working Bookshelf

It’s about time to wrap up the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway, and we’ve got a gorgeous leather laptop bag from Sports Accessories to wrap it up with. And since you’re bound to have some space left in the bag, we’ll throw in a $100 Amazing gift credit from the folks at Ubernote so you can fill it up with books (or whatever).

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August 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: bag, book, business, giveaway, note-taking, reading, ubernote, web-app | 116 comments»

Summer Giveaway: Reading and Relaxation

Nothing says “relaxation” more than a good book. Whether it’s a fascinating account of the lives or events of long ago or far away (or maybe just across town), or a fantastic voyage to other worlds, or a careful description of the latest scientific discoveries, let me lose myself in a good book. Summer is especially good for reading (though if you live in a state with “weather”, winter’s are pretty… Continue reading

August 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, content, giveaway, reading, recommendation | 94 comments»

A Beginner’s Guide to E-Books

In the last year, e-books have started taking off in a big way. E-books have been around for a long time, of course, but a few events in the last year suggest that they're really starting to get traction as a viable alternative to paper-based reading. One is the success of e-books like Leo Babauta's Zen to Done (read my review). Another is the emergence of e-book-only publishing… Continue reading

May 30 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: e-book, internet, reading | 29 comments»

Are You a Productive Reader?

I know you can read. You're reading this, aren't you? (If you're not reading this, never mind.)

But are you productively literate? That is, when you read, do you learn anything that you can apply immediately to your life, or do the words and ideas just bounce around your brain's pleasure areas for a while before disappearing like so many wisps of morning fog?

Not that there's anything wrong with… Continue reading

May 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, growth, learning, personal-development, reading | 14 comments»

The Lifehack Productivity Bookshelf

I just received my copy of Lifehack contributor Pamela Skilling's new book Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. Pamela's book is a guide for people fed up with the corporate lifestyle -- the lack of creative expression, the lack of spiritual reward, and ultimately the lack of control over the conditions of your own employment -- who are looking… Continue reading

May 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, leadership, learning, Management, organization, Productivity, reading, thinking | 2 comments»

Saving Time on Routine Tasks: Optimized Reading

If I were to attempt to project the demographics that make up a typical lifehackista, according to the comments I see here and the roots of the phrase life hacks, I'd say that the average specimen spends a heck of a lot of time reading and writing, online and off, pretty much every single day. It surely doesn't apply to everyone who loves lifehacks, but then again, you're reading this now… Continue reading

May 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: optimization, reading, rss | 5 comments»

Do You Read Too Many Blogs?

Ades of AdesBlog.com has a theory: that top bloggers don't read other people's blogs. To test his theory, he asked several big-name bloggers -- Michael Arrington, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Schoemaker, and Yaro Starak -- about their blog-reading habits. Except for Darren Rowse, they all said they read few or no blogs; Rowse said he subscribes to 700 but only skims the whole list occasionally… Continue reading

April 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, Productivity, reading, rss, time-management | 37 comments»

How to Fuel Your Idea Machine

"Reading fiction is a waste of time." Have you ever heard someone spout this line of complete and utter bollocks? I've rarely heard anything so ridiculous said in my life. Fiction, like all the arts, is an important part of culture; both a reflective distillation of it, and the base elements that form it. Society's collective attitudes, values, beliefs and the public memory have a symbiotic relationship with the arts. Books… Continue reading

April 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: books, creativity, fiction, ideas, problem-solving, reading | 22 comments»

Literary Gluttony – How to Consume More Books This Year

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year? Why Bother… Continue reading

January 8 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: books, improvement, learning, Lifehack, new years resolution, read, reading, speed read, students, studying | 68 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Read Like a Scholar

Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading.Most the time in school what you need to do is very simple: Sit down with the book, a pen and paper, and perhaps a computer… And from that point, you read. That’s it. You go through and read… Continue reading

September 21 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, college, education, reading, student, studying, university | 26 comments»

8 Tips To Get Most Out Of Your Books

When reading non-fiction, the focus is on taking in information. So unlike fiction, where you want to immerse yourself in a story, non-fiction reading techniques can be built on so we're getting the most out of those books. Donald Latumahina at LifeOptimizer has some tips to help get the most out of your reading. Some of these you may have heard before [in Efficient Reading], but here Donald puts… Continue reading

September 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: reading | 5 comments»

Eight Tips to Find Your Information Oasis

The Internet Age allows you to get whatever information you want, as much as you want it. This, however, may do you more harm than good. The reason is simple: there is usually far too much noise in the information we consume. It becomes increasingly difficult to get the gems out of it, and it takes a lot of time and energy to deal with. Besides, increasing noise means… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: effectiveness, information, prioritization, Productivity, reading, tips | 20 comments»