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+# Deciding on the Next Book
+
+I have trouble with books in my queue. I want to read them, but I always pick up something totally off my queue when it's time.
+
+
+## Process Goal
+
+- Avoid recency bias when selecting what book to read next
+- Have a quick process to pick the next book from an existing queue.
+- Have a digital queue to pick from
+- Trim my bookshelves and avoid buying books before they are selected.
+
+
+### Interest Inquiry
+
+Develop a short series of questions I can use to decide what kind of book I want next.
+
+
+### Content Inquiry
+
+Develop a short series of questions I can ask chatgpt about a specific book to supplement the interest inquiry, since it can discover information about the works in question quickly and relatively accurately, including some judgment calls.
+
+
+
+
+## Reading Goals
+
+quick draft
+
+
+### Some Specific Works or "sets"
+
+1. all historic scifi award winning novels and keep up each year
+  - also historic short stories, a bit harder to locate, but much lower commitment
+2. some classic american literature, both novel and short story
+3. classic story collections:
+  - grimm's fairy tales
+  - burton's collection/translation: "A thousand nights and one night" (known casually as Arabian Nights or 1001 nights)
+  - art of war
+  - tale of genji
+  - romance of the three kingdoms (4 volume translation from my childhood?)