{"id":1744,"date":"2018-09-03T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T15:42:23","slug":"tldr-seriously-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/tldr-seriously-though\/","title":{"rendered":"TLDR: Seriously, though…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who’s read my recent post summing up how I’m getting on with my 2017 Reading Challenge (To myself) or the roundup of the things I think people should read after August has taken place<\/a> will know that I have a new acronym that I’m bearing in mind. That said, depending on which of the above links you\u00a0didn’t<\/em> read, you might not know how I feel about acronyms.<\/p>\n

But I digress.<\/p>\n

I really like reading – and I want to encourage others to read. But, sometimes, for various reasons, folk don’t read the things they might, and so people on the internet deploy this acronym:<\/p>\n

\"TLDR<\/p>\n

This stands for ‘Too Long, Didn’t Read’, and is meant to provoke the response from the writer\/content provider\/blogger ‘oh, sorry, here’s a summary’.<\/p>\n

So, for the sake of argument, here’s my response to the TLDR dream:<\/p>\n