How do YOU read books?

Over the past few weeks I’ve been talking to a lot of people about their reading habits, and I’ve even changed mine up quite a bit. I find it fascinating how different people approach reading, and those approaches can be quite different.

To go a little deeper, I reached out to a few more people to get thoughts on how they read. I asked each of them the same nine questions and below is what I learned. These are all people who I have great respect for, and their systems clearly work for them, so there is no comparing which technique is better than another; everyone has their preferred method.

My hope for you is that you simple pick up a few new ideas as you read through them.

What’s your preferred reading format (kindle, audible, etc)? How often, if ever, do you read books in other formats?

As you might expect, this was a solid mix of paper books, ebooks, and audiobooks.

Robert Carnes, Jeff Hilimire, Adam Walker, and Chris LaFay are all mostly book-focused, though Jeff has some exceptions:

Jeff: “ I read Kindle, physical books, and listen to audiobooks. If I read 40 books this year, my guess is 10 will be audio and a fairly equal split between Kindle and paperback for the rest. “

Dan Bennett, Tony Dye, and Maryann Davidson tend to be audio-first, but bring in non-audio books as needed. For example: