How do you read through volumes of works?

[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?

 

[Pilgrim72]

Very slowly....

Unless you're Ben ---> http://www.puritanboard.com/members/backwoods-presbyterian/

 

[MW]

One page at a time.

 

[Ivan]

One page at a time.

Exactly my thinking...however, I have reference books that I do not read through.

 

[Puritan Sailor]

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.

 

[Curt]

Not all series are intended for beginning-to-end reading. Reference works are important and shouldn't intimidate us into reading them.

 

[Theogenes]

The same way that you would eat an elephant...one bite at a time!