[How Bill Gates gets the most out of books.]

[比爾蓋茲如何最有效益的閱讀？]

You know, when you are reading, you have to be careful that you really are concentrating, particularly if it's a nonfiction book.

當你在閱讀時，必須要小心自己是非常專注的，特別是在看非科幻小說類。

Are you taking the new knowledge and sort of attaching to knowledge you have?

你有沒有吸收新知識或與自己本來就有的知識融會貫通？

For me, taking notes helps make sure that I'm really thinking hard about about what's in there.

就我而言，做筆記會幫助我確保我有認真在思考書中所提到的東西。

If I disagree with the book, sometimes it takes a long time to read the book, because I'm writing so much in the margin.

如果我不同意書本的立場，有時候看一本書會花很久的時間，因為我在閱讀的過程中寫下了一堆東西。

It's actually kind of frustrating.

這其實有點挫折。

Oh, please say something I agree with so I can get through to the end of this book.

喔拜託，講些我同意的東西吧！好讓我看完這本書。

[#2 Don't start what you can't finish.]

[#2 不要看任何你無法看完的東西。]

So there is one--it's a fiction book called Infinite Jest--what I'm trying to decide if I started or not, because I watched the movie The End of the Tour.

有一本叫《無盡的玩笑》的書，我試著決定到底該不該開始看，因為我在巡迴演講時看了它的電影。

I loved it.

我超愛的。

David Foster Wallace comes across as a super-interesting, broad-thinking person.

作者 David Foster Wallace 是個非常有趣、思想廣闊的人。

If the book was like (a) two or three hundred page book, there's no doubt as soon as I watched that movie I dived in.

如果那本書是兩三百頁的書，我一看完電影絕對就會馬上開始看書的。

But it's quite long and complicated, and you know, I don't want to make an exception.

但那本書挺長又費解的，所以，我也不想為了這本書打破我的原則。

It's my rule to to get to the end.

我的原則就是要把書看完。

[#3 Paper books > ebooks.]

[#3 紙本書 > 電子書。]

Over time I will make the switch, but when I'm just sitting there at night reading often a paper magazine or the... the book.

大致上來說我是交替著看，但如果是晚上在家窩著看書，通常我都會看紙本雜誌或書。

I'm used to that.

我習慣這樣。

-It's ridiculous because I care, I have whole book bag that goes on my trips with me, and it's it's voluminous and antiquated. -[Ok, maybe don't do this.]

這聽起來很荒謬，但因為我很在意這點，我甚至出門在外的時候會帶一整袋書，又重又過時。

[#4 Block out an hour.]

[#4 騰出一個小時。]

If you're reading books like these, you'd want to be sitting down for an hour at a time, because otherwise just getting your mind around.

如果你在看這類型的書，你會想要坐下來好好看個一小時的書，要不然你就會開始神遊。

Okay, reading is not the kind of thing you can do five minutes here ten minutes there.

閱讀不是那種可以三心二意的事，好嗎？

Magazine articles fit, or short YouTube videos fit into those little slots.

雜誌中的文章或 YouTube 上的短影片，可以填補這些瑣碎的時間。

And so you know, every night I'm reading a little over an hour, and so I can take my current book and make some progress.

所以每天晚上我都會至少閱讀一個小時以上，好讓我能看現在手上有的書並有點進展。