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09-09-2009, 02:04 PM
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For example, I have the 3 volume set of John Bunyan's works from SGP and the 6 volume works of Flavel. How would you read through them? In your library are they more for reference, or do you actually read them straight through?
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09-09-2009, 02:32 PM
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One page at a time. 
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Originally Posted by armourbearer  One page at a time. | Exactly my thinking...however, I have reference books that I do not read through.
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Originally Posted by LeeD For example, I have the 3 volume set of John Bunyan's works from SGP and the 6 volume works of Flavel. How would you read through them? In your library are they more for reference, or do you actually read them straight through? | Just pace yourself. Read 20 pages a day (a chapter or two). After a year you'll have made it through 7,300 pages. That's more than enough to get you through Bunyan's works and then some. 
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Not all series are intended for beginning-to-end reading. Reference works are important and shouldn't intimidate us into reading them.
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