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Short books versus long books, what are the pros and cons to each?

We’re glad you asked.

Perhaps you’re looking for a new book to read and you’re trying to determine what length it should be. Or maybe you’re trying to decipher what the advantages are of reading a short book versus a long book in general.

We can certainly tell you that there pros and cons of each. We’re going to briefly discuss these with you. Some of these pros and cons will likely make you look at books in a different light.

For the purpose of this article, we will refer to short books as anything less than 100 pages, and long books as anything more than this.

Now, let’s begin.

Short Books

Especially since the release of e-readers such as the Kindle, short books sales have become a larger chunk of the market.

We see this as a very good thing because it gives the customer more opportunity to find exactly what they’re looking for. More accessibility for customers generally results in more satisfaction.

There are many advantages of shorter books that you likely haven’t considered. We will go through them in detail, along with some of the cons.

Pros of Short Books

  • Easier to Finish: Yeah, we know this is obvious, but it’s worth stating. It’s easy to finish a short book. The overwhelming majority of readers do not finish the books that they purchase. There are simply too many distractions out there.
  • Easier to Reread: We believe that this is one of the most underrated advantages of shorter books. It is much easier to review all of the information in a short nonfiction book. This can be extremely beneficial to the reader. If you are reading a nonfiction book, you almost always have to go back to have a method to review the information to get everything out of it. It’s simply easier to do with a short book.
  • Cheaper: This should be obvious. Short books are cheaper because there’s less information and they don’t take as long to write. Therefore, you can get a good introduction or a good in-depth viewpoint on a particular subject for a cheap price.
  • Excellent Introduction to a subject: Short books give you the ability to test the waters of any subject before you truly dive into it. You can read a short book on Meditation, for instance, before you decide to purchase a full book or to take a meditation class. You’ll learn much sooner whether or not you like the subject, as well.
  • Niche Information: Shorter books often cover niche information that may not need a full book. For instance, How To Make Money With Twitter, How to Market Kindle books, etc. This is not always the case, as you can often find full-fledged manuals for a lot of niche information. But this often is true.
  • Talented, Lesser Known Authors: Short books are often written by talented part-time authors that don’t have big publishing deals. This means that anyone can write a book with less barrier to entry, and of course, anyone can read it.
  • To the Point: Short books often have less fluff than a long book. Therefore, they have to get to the point quicker to teach you about the subject they discuss.

Cons of Short Books

  • Less Depth: Short books, in general, give you less depth into a subject. This is generally true unless they are written about a very specific niche topic that requires previous knowledge of the subject discussed. Since there’s obviously fewer pages in the book, there’s generally less room to go in as deep and branch the information out.
  • More Amateur (at times): Since shorter books are sometimes written by less experienced authors, sometimes the books just aren’t as good. However, you can easily avoid this by reading reviews before you make your purchase.
  • Possibly No Physical Copy: If you’re a reader who loves to have physical copies of your books, you’ll find that shorter books aren’t sold in physical format. This is not always true, but it is more likely with shorter books instead of longer books.

Long Books

As you can see, we really think short books are great. So now that we’ve discussed short books, we can draw up a comparison between short and long books.

Long books have one major advantage: depth. Despite the fact that short books can be pretty great, a solid in-depth long book on the information makes a good long book worth the read. And in the case of fantasy or fiction, a long book can truly immerse you in the world.

Pros of Longer Books

  • More Depth: As we’ve mentioned, the biggest benefit of longer books is that they can go into more depth into the story or the subject. This reason alone is often the best reason to buy a longer book if it is well-written and isn’t made longer with fluff. And if you’re reading a fiction book, the depth can truly immerse you in the story.
  • More Likely To Be Written by a Big Name: Most renowned experts don’t write very short books. Almost every famous figure or author (or ghost writer) usually writes a bare minimum of 150 pages. This certainly doesn’t mean that experts don’t write shorter books, but this is almost always true about any bigger author or celebrity.

Cons of Longer Books

  • Much More to Review: As we’ve said, you should go back and review the information in non-fiction books. This is because you simply cannot learn something just by reading it once. You must read, make the information yours, put the information into practice, and re-read it again as necessary. Long books have a ton of information in them, so they take much more time to review. This often discourages readers from going back and reviewing the content in the first place.
  • Fluff: Many long books are loaded with a lot of fluff. Even some of our favorite books are guilty of doing this. You often find this complaint made in many book reviews. Fluff may help the book’s message stick a little better, but frankly, it isn’t necessary overall.
  • More Expensive: This is obvious. Longer books are more expensive because they have more information and take more time to write. Books are cheap in general so this is all relative.
  • Harder to Finish: This, we believe, is a significant disadvantage. We live in a time where everything is constantly competing for your attention. Most people can hardly sit down for a few minutes without getting distracted. Thus, it is naturally more difficult to finish a longer book.

Conclusion

You would think from the list of pros versus cons in this article that short books are simply better than longer books.

As many advantages as short books have, this is certainly not always the case. A great book is a great book. So really, whether a long or short term book is better depends on the book itself, but there are certain advantages to both.

That said, we generally prefer short books, unless a longer book can keep up with the quality throughout the entire book. There are simply many advantages to shorter books, as we listed above. But we certainly don’t discriminate; a great book is a great book!

Anyway, this is all we have to say about this subject. We hope you enjoyed this article. If so, be sure to subscribe to our email list to get many awesome self-improvement tips, plus discounts and promotions on our new books. And be sure to check out our books, we’re sure you’ll love what we have to offer.

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]]> Why You Should Read Daily To Accelerate Your Personal Growth https://www.publishingpulse.com/read-daily-accelerate-personal-growth/ Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:53:29 +0000 https://www.publishingpulse.com/?p=303 We should all strive for self improvement and personal growth every day of our lives. If you’re reading this article, you may be asking yourself why exactly reading is so beneficial to your personal growth, Read more…

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We should all strive for self improvement and personal growth every day of our lives.

If you’re reading this article, you may be asking yourself why exactly reading is so beneficial to your personal growth, or your life in general.

If you’re not asking yourself that, that’s fine. We’re going to tell you anyway — and we’re going to make you understand some facts about reading that will help you look at it in a different light.

And just because we’re that great, we’re going to give you a useful resource on making your non-fiction, goal-oriented reading at least twice as efficient at the end of this article.

Please note that throughout this article, we will be primarily discussing non-fiction reading for self improvement, as opposed to fiction reading for entertainment.

Now, let’s begin.

Why Should Reading Be A Part of Your Routine?

Frankly, if you’re concerned with your personal growth and self improvement, there are many things you can do.

You can:

  • Write in a daily journal.
  • Get in shape.
  • Learn a martial art.
  • Learn meditation.
  • Learn a valuable subject such as world history or geography.
  • Travel to a distant location.
  • And probably thousands of other things.

All of these are worthwhile ways to spend your time and expand your personal development.

But if you’re concerned with your personal development — whether you want to build a business, travel the world, learn a new skill, or just enhance your knowledge for your own boredom or self-interest; reading must be a part of your routine!

Reading is a classic way of learning that will never go out of style. No matter what type of reading it is; books, ebooks, magazines, online articles, or anything else, reading materials are cheaper to mass produce than ever, and thus are the most economical way for someone to get inside the head of an expert on their respective subjective.

It seems these days that almost every renowned expert or even semi-famous celebrity has a book, whether they wrote it themselves or it was ghost-written with their guidance.

There’s a reason for this. Not only does it grant them perceived authority and credibility as an expert, but it’s a classic and easy medium for spreading their ideas. And, of course, they also make money.

If you’re a big fan of someone, you’ll probably read their book. Among many other reasons, this is often because reading their writing gives you a solid perspective of how their mind works.

For instance, if you want to know how a successful investor looks at the world, you’d probably want to read a book such as Rich Dad Poor Dad. By doing this, you’re delving outside of your world to see the world from the viewpoint of the rich, and thus, you’ll be taught crucial techniques on money management that you likely never thought of before you read the book.

Even if you read just an average of 30-60 minutes a day, if you read enough articles and books over a long course of time, you’ll get a ton of viewpoints on the world that will provide you a ton of knowledge you wouldn’t have obtained otherwise. This bodes handsomely for your personal growth and success, especially if you choose to use that knowledge to take yourself further in your life.

And look, despite the fact that people generally prefer to watch Youtube these days, the power of the written word has not changed. Authors know that they’re literally telling you what to think for the duration of your time reading their books. That’s power for the author; and for a reader who wants to hear the author’s message, that’s incredibly powerful as well.

So why else should you become an avid reader? We’ll give you five more reasons.

Five More Reasons Why Reading is Great for Self Improvement and Personal Growth

1. Reading is the cheapest and easiest way to get in-depth knowledge from an expert on their given subject.

While experts might sell seminars or charge you expensive hourly rates for their personal time, what they deliver in book form is exponentially cheaper than anything. Reading allows you to access an expert’s mind for dirt cheap.

2. Reading is an inexpensive, productive past time in general.

It is way cheaper to be an avid reader than an avid hunter, car collector, or anything else. Not that we have anything against vacations, but a “staycation” with a great book can be very relaxing and mind opening. For best results, take a staycation to somewhere local, peaceful, and beautiful, then bust out the reading!

3. Reading is among the highest ROI (Return on Investment) activities for personal growth.

Again, due to the inexpensiveness and insight you acquire from reading, reading is one of the best ROIs activities you can do. Just make sure you follow up reading with action (which we will discuss soon).

4. Most books are loaded with the information you need to get started on or dramatically improve your knowledge in a given subject

You really don’t need to go to an expensive class or seminar. If you want to start a business or a side gig, reading a book and then putting the principles into action is a lot cheaper and often more effective than going to school for it. It depends on the subject, of course, but you can read about the majority of subjects, then put the practices into action and become very well versed over a course of time.

5. Reading makes you a better communicator.

If you have any interest in enhancing your communication skills for any reason, whether it’s through writing or speaking, reading a lot will make your communication skills much better. Reading will teach you how to tell a story, how to persuade, how to educate, and a lot more.

We think these are all great reasons to read for personal growth. Have we convinced you yet?

How Reading is Changing

Now, let’s mention something interesting and important to note. Although reading will never go away, the way we’re reading is changing.

As we all know, e-books are becoming much more popular, even if they are not taking over entirely. At Publishing Pulse, we love Kindles because they are excellent at just giving you the book to read with no distractions. It’s totally different reading on a Kindle versus a cell phone or tablet because the latter options will distract you anytime a message comes up from a friend or just one of your 5000 installed apps. Distractions make you dramatically less productive!

But many people still have a hard time putting down their distractions. And because everything is constantly trying to grab our attention, it’s a lot harder to sit down and read an entire 200+ page book for most people than it used to be.

Fortunately, there’s a market for this. You can get an excellent introduction to a subject with a book that doesn’t take you more than an hour to read. If you truly like the subject, then you can dive in much deeper with another book.

For example, if you’re wanting a quick but still detailed dive in meditation, you would want to pick up a copy of Self Compassion and Mindfulness For Healing and Acceptance to learn some basic meditation theory, techniques, and to reduce your daily stress. The chances are very high that you’ll love the book, get a ton of value out of it, and want to learn even more about meditation. But if you realized you had no interest in it, you only spent $2.99 and an hour of your life, and still probably learned something useful anyway!

If you’re interested in a quick tutorial on eliminating your procrastination habits, you would want to pick up a copy of The Sexiest Book On Smashing Procrastination You’ll Ever Read (we know the title is funny).

Although detail can be very useful, you often don’t need to spend a ton of time researching certain subjects. Often times you just need a few great ideas, and you just need to act on them. Procrastination is one of those subjects, and thus it’s generally wiser to read an informative but shorter book to get to the important information quickly— otherwise, you might just procrastinate some more.

Anyway, perhaps we ranted a bit there. If you want to read longer books, there’s no shame in it whatsoever. We believe that longer books and shorter books both have their places. The point is that the industry is changing, and that means more options for you as a reader.

And of course, we’re a business — so we wanted to slyly plug some of our shorter self-development books that we are very confident will help you!

Let’s Not Pat Ourselves On the Back Too Soon….

Let’s make one final point that we were hitting at. If you want to accelerate your personal growth, you cannot just read.

As we love to say here at Publishing Pulse, if you are reading a nonfiction book for self improvement, you must apply the information that you are reading into your life as much as possible.

While we say it’s better to be a bookworm than someone who never takes any time to read or do any real activity towards self improvement and personal growth, it’s even better to be a doer than only a reader.

Remember, information comes first. Action comes second. If you’re reading for self improvement, you absolutely must act on what you’ve read to put it into use.

If you want to learn about how to get the most out of your reading, make sure you read How to Dramatically Improve Your Efficiency Reading Any Nonfiction Book (In Under 5 Minutes). There are some excellent tips in that article that will help you ensure that you’re getting the most out of your non-fiction reading for personal growth. As we said at the beginning of this article, this article will at least double the amount you’re getting out of your reading if you aren’t reading efficiently.

Conclusion

Read daily to accelerate your personal growth. Then act on that knowledge.

It’s a simple habit and it’s extremely powerful.

Whether you are an avid reader or just one who reads as a hobby, reading will make you a much more well rounded, more intelligent, more successful, more complete person.

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