Maybe reading for you is just a hobby, but you limit yourself to bestsellers and books hyped by YouTube and TikTok; maybe you are (or feel) obliged to read certain books, but has a specific reading taste outside that; maybe you think you like a genre or trope, but get disappointed over and over by it. So ask yourself, without prejudice and ignoring the urgency to read the authors everybody is talking about: why do you read? And: what do you truly like to read? Are you consuming content aligned to your taste and needs or just YouTube channels, for example, that talk about the same books/authors over and over again? How many minutes a day or what moments of your day would you really dedicate to feed this taste?

This tip may seem obvious, but it's fundamental to the following ones.