Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need, to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I am your host and today we answer a

listener question and listen to write in and says Joshua good evening. I've been

listening for a while and I remember that during one episode you briefly

went into how you were scanning all of your books to PDF. I was wondering

will you please elaborate some more on that for me?

Did you have a high-end duplex scanner or software specially made for assembling the multiple

scans of the pages of the books? Or did you brute force it for all of your books with simply a plate glass scanner?

The process of separating the bindings and most of all scanning each individual page seems

very cumbersome with my run-of-the-mill H-P scanner printer combo.

I'm curious because one of my hobbies is playing chess,

and I'm usually unable to resist the unspoken promise of

rapid chess improvement if I buy just one more chess book. My wife would like me to consolidate

the plethora of chess knowledge on my bookshelves, but I'm loath to throw away some of the books

before I have yet had the chance to study them. Even if I admit that it's likely I never will get to all of them.

Thank you, Josh. We'll keep up the good work.

It's a good question, and I have personal experience and personal thoughts on this that I think will be useful for you

today. First a short sales pitch on reading. I have met only a handful of wealthy

people who were not readers and even that handful of wealthy people who were not readers and yet had managed to become wealthy. I would, my analysis is that is a deficiency and they were successful in spite of that personal

shortcoming and that personal deficiency not because of it. I have never met someone who proudly

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