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Discussion on: Books appear to still be popular in software development

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Subbu Lakshmanan

We have a book review program at my work and we read a book related to software development and meet and discuss once in a week. I have asked the dev community for some suggestions and got loads of them.

Personally I prefer print but I do have eBooks in my library.

I agree with Ben. Just because one commenting on the book, doesn’t mean they actually read it. It’s like registering for gym vs actually working out consistently.
Reading books on consistent basis is a good habit but hard to build.

P.S: To be frank, I have a collection of books at home but haven’t read most of them. Still working on forming the habit of reading regularly.

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Greg Bodnar

I've started using a habit-tracking app to nudge me into reading for 30 minutes per day, which has done wonders for shortening my reading queue. I've tried to mix up fiction and not-fiction with good results over the last few months.