One of the biggest reasons I procrastinate required reading is because I don’t like mixing work and pleasure. I despise anything done for scholastic or academic purposes, but I have to. I’ve never been good at taking notes, and I don’t know how to go about fact checking. Do I fact check every single thing in the book? Do I write notes as a I go? Once the chapter is done? After the book? For instance, if I go reading the whole book and then find after that a lot of the stuff isn’t true, I just wasted my time.
I can accept that at least I now know the book is worthless, but I’d rather not have read it at all if it didn’t actually give me more info.
Descendants of the victors fact checking the victors.