My Book Shelf

Summary: Books have been my major source of knowledge for almost four decades. Books supported me during school, hobby, study and various fileds of interest. I owned over 1,000 books so far, slowly selling them off or even throwing obsolete books out.

Books served me well, I have enjoyed reading books to the extend that I joined speed reading classes to get through literature quicker. The trigger for speed reading were my studies in Information Science. With a lot of ground to cover, speed reading seemed the obvious choice. I reached — at the peek of my ability — a throughput of 100 pages an hour. I have — unfortuantely — lost that skill due to non-practice after my Master studies in Business and Technology a few years ago.

My pragmatic and often scientific approach to knowledge aqcuisition resulted in the purchase of many books. My engineering years saw many specialist topics in computing, and the books that go with it. Gosh, I could hardly read the books at the pace technologies were changing and superseeded.

I enventually had to concede buying books, in particular in the technology space is futile. With the advent of the Internet, or more so little bit later, I stopped buying books altogether. I bought a private subscription for a library card at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), which has ever since, served me well, saving lots of dollars and also being able to access many books more than I could afford buying. This has been great. Though my journey of knowledge acquisition has slowed down, the library card is still money well spent.

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