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Simple: Go to grad school in a real subject, like physics. Then you needn't worry about required reading.
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I have one. Only go to grad school for a subject you love. Then, you should find most of the reading interesting.
I wish I could take my own advice. Unfortunately, I'm in grad school for Business Administration. That means I have to take accounting. I hate accounting.
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It sucks. I hate it. Especially when you are near the end of your program and find yourself reading the same theorists over and over so it is just so repetitive.
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Skim skim skim. I have usually about 700 pages of assigned reading a week (my high this semester was around 1300), which I maintain is physically impossible to do when I'm also teaching a 120 person class for the first time and supposed to be reading about 30 extra books for papers. So I skim.
The worst are articles. It's fine to have a 400 page book a week for a class, because its just one argument. 400 pages of articles or book excerpts a week is ridiculous though. 9 different articles which may or may not be in conversation with each other? Blech. Which of course is what I have to read. By tomorrow. So I plan on skimming .
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You can sometimes by "condensed" textbooks. There's a major Organizational Behavior textbook that weighs in at over 700 pages -- it has an "essentials" companion that's about 230 pages. You can read the companion and be fine.
I've had luck with Cliff's Notes as well.
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