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It's Sunday, which means that it's time for an email packed with some great content, just for you.

How I Find Books to Read

I read a lot. And I always have a book lined up, for when I'm done with the one that I'm reading.How do I find books to read? And how does one - in a sea of books - pick the right ones to read?First of all, I have a list of books that I'm going to read. Currently, I have 127 books that I want to read on it. So I'm not running out any time soon.Secondly, I pay attention to recommendations. I always save them. Any time I stumble upon a book that is regarded as 'good', I add it to the list. I'll filter them out later - which I'll tell you how I do, as well.Thirdly, I read the bibliographies. If you read an interesting book, and you want to explore the topic further, then read which books that the author read. Sometimes they even have a 'Recommended Reading' list.OK. So how do I filter out books?For one, I'm not afraid to just not finish a book. A book has to earn being read. If the book stops being good, I stop reading it.I don't want to become bored with reading, just because I'm bored of that book.Don't get stuck reading a book that isn't good, just because you want to say that you finished 100 books in a year.I also read reviews on Goodreads. It's easy to grasp what the general feeling about the book is from there. 

Free Classes Online From the Best Universities

For a student like me, this is a golden resource.

I recently stumbled upon

ClassCentral

. A website that indexes the best courses under most topics.

Want to learn

Computer Science

? It's there. You can find courses from Standford, MIT, Harvard, and even more.

This Weeks Quote

I'm reading

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

currently. So I only see it fitting that I include his 'Man In The Arena' quote here.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

The quote comes from his Citizenship in a Republic speech, which he gave at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910.

To your success. Regards, Christian Bager Bach Houmann