Been reading many more old books this year. 

Turned out to be one of my smartest decisions. Also loosely related to the quote @maurice posted about how we forget the dry years. 

"If we must choose between old books and new ones, we should always select an old one." - C.S Lewis

https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/why-read-old-books?referrer=0x44BCa7E527efC8ce8a8B2A83596EA66194Dd9239

Fantastic essay on the value of reading old books by @naomiii 

I'm currently reading Plato's Republic.

To be honest, I have to say that I find it difficult to read old books. I am someone who likes to read very fast and many books at the same time (this comes from my childhood where we read as many books as possible on vacation for the competition). 

What I have discovered is that you have to read old books in many small sections unlike today where you read a book in a few sittings.

I also do this with the Bible where I only ever read sections.

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I know that the stories of Sherlock Holmes were first published in the newspaper every other day or week and later published in book form. 

It could be that this was similar with Dickens.

I saw somewhere that dickens for example published just a chapter every other week.

Which makes a lot of sense to me. That's probably a great speed at which to read some of these.

I'm also someone reading multiple books simultaneously 🙃

I can well understand that, children want full attention.

When they get older, you can read (more) again.

I can only read a book at once or never finish it (even if I love it).

Was great as a kid, teenager and at university. Terrible as an adult with a kid.