 This is a follow-up to a video that I made almost two full years ago Called it's okay to drop a book It's a a follow-up that I've been wanting to do almost for that entire time And I've never gotten around to it, but I'll sit down and do it now There's a link to the original video in the description below and on YouTube It'll be popping up here at the top as well what it comes down to is That you the reader Do not have an obligation to finish a book any book It is okay for you to put down a book that you're not enjoying or that you're having a difficulty Getting through for whatever reason and to simply not pick it up again You don't have to worry about what happened to the characters how the story turned out just move on The reason I made the video the first time around because I had I had said that before During some of my book reviews and each time I said it somebody Made a comment or sent me a message Saying thank you for saying that I've never heard anybody say that before so apparently It's unusual for readers to hear people say that and all they need is to hear somebody say it so I'm saying it and After this is done. I hope everyone who hears this will go on and say it to somebody else who needs to hear it because Reading should be enjoyable We should be getting Entertainment out of it. We should be getting enlightenment out of it. We should be learning from it We should not be miserable because of it and the misery of Pushing ourselves through a book that we're not enjoying is a self-inflicted misery and we can stop it we can turn it off So so yeah turn it off. I when I made my Previous video one of my viewers said That the author does not have an obligation to entertain me the reader I wasn't sure why exactly that particular viewer said that because that wasn't Of course he doesn't By the same token the reader doesn't owe the author anything Nobody involved in the whole exchange owes anybody else anything at all But there's another wrinkle to this that I didn't cover the first time around and I wish I had so that's what this video is for Committing to reading a novel is a different commitment for different people I'm a slow reader For example, I've spent two months getting through this 600 page book. I Routinely hear other youtubers talking about how they've read 12 15 books in a month. I would be Doing extremely well if I read that many books in a year and it's not just about reading habits I am physically slower. I can't read any faster Then I would be able to read aloud for example And since I started thinking about making this video I've been taking more notice about what I'm doing when I'm actually reading and I catch myself reading the same sentence over and over sometimes an entire paragraph over and over because I'm having comprehension problems or even eyesight problems So someone who could read a good-sized novel in a couple of hours or in two evenings That's not much of a commitment They can knock that out real quick and then move on to something else and and they're not Experiencing this slog of misery that goes on and on for someone like me that same book It would take me six weeks to get through for example And if it's a miserable experience, I'm not gonna subject myself to that I'm gonna put the book away and go do something else. So when you hear someone Talking about a book that they haven't finished reading or simply mentioning that they haven't finished reading it and you catch yourself thinking less of them for it or Being upset with them about it. Stop and think that the commitment of reading a book May be a very different kind of commitment for them than it is for you And besides it doesn't make any difference anyway Why should it make any difference to you? And for the person who's dropped the book it shouldn't make any difference to them either and if you're the one who dropped the book That's that's fine. That's good Having made this video I think one of the videos I'm gonna make in the next month or so will be a list of books that I have not finished and I'll talk about why I didn't finish them and I will add each of those books to My master list of reviews that master list of the books that I reviewed and there is a master list that you can see online It's at 30 second sci-fi dot fiftieth dot ST at the fiftieth Street page There's a link here on the screen now and in the description below Please subscribe to my channel here and press the like button. That's how my videos get seen and When you visit the page at 50th Street, please consider becoming a patron I am patron supported and you can make a one-time donation if you like. Thank you