From Relay FM, this is Upgrade Episode 378. Today's show is brought to you by Things,

Oony Pizza Ovens and HPE Tech Talk. My name is Mike Hurley and I'm joined by Jason Snow. Hi, Jason Snow.

I'm Mike Hurley. Got a big show today. There's a lot happening. There's a lot. It's busy, busy,

busy time, busy time in the busy time of the busy time. Jason has had a 14-inch MacBook Pro for a

week and we're going to be talking about it in a little bit. But we have some things that we

must get to first, including our hashtag snow talk question, which this week comes from Mark,

who asks, Jason, what do you do when you're not really into a book? Do you persevere and finish it?

Do you put it aside and come back to it later? Or do you just choose to give up and stop reading?

A lot of my friends have various policies. I'm not quite sure which one is the most common.

There's a hundred page rule. There's a 33% rule, which is good to do in an e-reader.

That's basically my policy, too, is that when I get deep in a book, I will often persevere and

finish it. But I think the most important thing is that if it's not working for you and you've given

it enough of an opportunity, you've given it a hundred pages or you've read the first third of it,

I think you do need to give yourself an out where you say, if it's not working for me beyond this

point, and some people are going to be like, oh, I do it in the first 10 pages. Everybody's going

to be different. I feel like you need to give a book a little bit of time before you declare it

dead. But I did have that happen fairly recently where I was, yeah, I forget where I was halfway

or third of the way through the book and I just said, this isn't working for me and I dumped it.

It happens and it's okay because life's too short to force yourself to read a book, you're not

enjoying it. I notice it most because there are books that are a slog and then I get into a next

book and it just is, I want to read it and I pick it up all the time and I'm reading it

avidly and like you can tell when you're enjoying a book and when you're not. So I would say,

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