“Tracking what you've read is in itself another process that turns you away from the actual experience of reading (...) the only experience that you should really concern yourself with is understanding the text, you know, getting a really great experience out of the text (...) in the case of fiction it's about really enjoying the plot and letting this plot want to transform you in some way. Whereas if you set yourself these artificial reading goals per year or how many books I'm going to dig through per year it sort like deviates you away from the very first person experience of immersing yourself in the text...”
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