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title: Completism
date: '2008-01-10T09:02:30-05:00'
permalink: /completism/
tags:
    - pondering
    - reading
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Why is it that, even when I’ve realized that the book I’ve started reading isn’t the text I actually need to be reading — either it doesn’t do the thing I thought it did, or it occurs to me that my attention would be more fruitfully placed elsewhere — I nonetheless feel the need to finish the thing before moving on to another book?