Pictures of my dictionary

Yesterday I mentioned that I use my dictionary a lot so today I decided to take some pictures and show everyone just how much I use the dictionary.

I am not sure how old it is but, probably at least ten years old. It is in bad shape. Some of the pages are ripped, and Parts of the pages are missing so that definitions of some words are missing. As you can see from the photos I tried to repair the dictionary with some duct tape but, the repair has failed over time. Anyone need a book repaired call me I have rock bottom prices. I guarantee that your book will be returned to you in worse shape than you sent it. I also would like to say that duct tape can repair anything.

I could replace it but, I am cheap and also I am attached to it after using it all these years. I don't want to ever get a new one. Sillys Done, goodnight.

I need to read more books

Today hacker news had a link to a New york times article about a women who is reading a book a day for a year. I read the article and thought I wish I could read that many books in a year. I don't think I could accomplish such a feat because I have never finished a book in one day. I think I did read a book in four days once but, it was a short book.

I want to read more books but, I am a slow reader. I read a sentence or paragraph and then I will read it again and sometimes again before I move on to the the next sentence or paragraph. Also when I come to a word I don't understand I look it up in my dictionary instead of guessing what it means.

Looking up words that I don't understand wouldn't be so bad if I remember the word the next time I read it. But I end up looking up the same words over and over again. Heck I even have trouble remembering the word I just looked up in the dictionary after I put the dictionary down but, before I start reading again so sometimes I need to look the word up a second time which is frustrating.

So anyway I was sitting in front of my computer dreaming about how great it would be able to read a book a day. Just thinking about something like that made me feel great. I Imagined all the great books I could read and how much better at reading I would become. It made my day. But sadly I don't think I could ever be able to read fast enough to read that many books. Maybe one book a week is possible but, I don't want to set a goal because I know I wont do it. I just want to dream.

Reading

I read two articles about speed reading so I want to write about reading today. The fist article Speed Read is from wired by Emily Saso and the second article is from wiseBread and is written by Lindsey Knerl it's a review of the book The complete idiot's guide to speed reading.

When I was younger I didn't read a books for pleasure, I read books because they were school assignments. I probably finished the reading assignments, but I am sure I disliked reading those books and would rather have been watching T.V or playing video games

I did read sports Illustrated and the sports section of the news paper, but I wish I would have also read fiction and non fiction so I could learn about something other than sports.

It was about a decade ago when I started reading books for pleasure. I am still not a fast reader and I need to look up big words in the dictionary, but now I enjoy reading.

One problem I had with reading was I thought I had to remember every word in a sentence and I read very slow for awhile. Now I don't worry about remembering everything and that works much better.

I still read books although now I do most of my reading on my computer. I read blogs and websites and also some books that I download as PDF's.

one of my favorite books is upgrading and rapairing pc's

One of the first computer books I read was Upgrading and Repairing PC's, fifth edition. I got interested in PC hardware because of Dave chalk's computer show. So I got Upgrading and repairing PC's to learn more about computer hardware. The book was a couple of years old when I got it.

It's a big book, but I did not mind I was so excited to learn more about computer hardware. I read most of the book. I think it took me a couple of months to finish. I learned a lot from the book even though I did not have a computer and had never seen the inside of a computer. I knew almost nothing when I started the book, but I learned about hard drives the system bus and CD Rom's.

I recently got a newer edition of Upgrading and rapairing PC's from a library and read 600 pages of it. The computer section of a library is an exciting place, I could stay there all day. I was excited when I got the book home. I could not wait to read the newer edition of Upgrading and repairing PC's. I had a great time reading the book, but did not finish it. Someday I know I will finish an Upgrading and repairing PC's book.