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At one job where I was under-worked but had my back to a major walkway and to my manager’s glass-walled office I put Project Gutenberg txt files in a terminal and any time I might have looked at HN, I did that instead.

Three novels in three months.

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I've tried "reading at work" and failed. I was trying to read scientific papers that are only tangentially related to work, and couldn't manage to do it. I attribute that to the fact that scientific papers, like coding, requires a lot of time of "building your mental environtment" so you can't be switching all the time.

That's genius ?? Gonna try this starting right now as I'm at work scrolling through HN, lmao

I just used “less” to read them, if I were to do it again I’d find something that at least kept my place on program close. I think I only accidentally closed it like once in that three months, but over time it would have been a problem worth solving.

Personally I would've opted by opening on vim inside tmux. But then again, I never liked "less".

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