Yesterday I ended my attempt to organize the pdf files, that I have, and that concerns the aging and started to feel like an librarian. I put the different type of pdf files in different folders and ended with 104 books, more than 200 scientific studies, published in different magazines, 40 brochures (pdf files, that are too short to be called books, but are not studies), and 146 garbage pdf files, that are designed as advertisements of different anti - aging products. Except them, I happened to have 30 video files, 110 lectures in power point format and 33 audio files (I do not count the 4 podcasts from the longecity forum, that I have downloaded).
When I saw that, I realised, that since I am not a professional aging researcher, and I have to do my job in order to survive, when having on mind the free time, that I have and the speed, that I am reading books, I will not be able to read all of the books on aging, that I have, in my lifetime, unles it extends during my reading To make the problem worse, 3 of the books are more than 1000 pages long, and the more scientific the books get, the less understandable they become. On the other hand they concern different sciences and maybe it is impossible for a man to become enough competent in all of these sciences, especially in the medical ones. Moreover, the overlaping information is in random parts of the books, so a man do not knows what not to read from each book. If some day I occasionally manage to read of all of my pdf aging books, then after the time I do that the information in them may no longer be valid, because of the science development.
Does anyone have encountered the same problem? If so, what is Your strategy for knowing which book to read and which not to read? Or what is Your strategy to cope with this problem?