Tagged “reading”

free book teaching preschoolers to read - also app with some phonics system.

Top comment from HN thread had funny timing with Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?

From a thread of things similar to StumbleUpon.

Apparently browser buddy extension does something similar

the anti-hype reading list

It depends on the book. Talks about different authors approaches to describing the same scene; the focus is completely different for each, and so each would be read very differently.

Interesting to re-read How I read and see if anything has changed.

Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share in it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed.

Some suggestions:

• https://build.mmm.page/
• https://search.marginalia.nu/
• https://readsomethingwonderful.com/

this is comforting. let lots go

With a bookmarklet!

Some suggestions:

• read more
• read slower, understand better
• write in books, apparently. I am still unconvinced

Accounting for scribal and other potential errors when translating texts

Saved for if Google kills Scholar

He has written more reviews than I have read books this year…

Would like to see more of this kind of write up - description and onboarding experience of a possible alternative to goodreads. Some great explanations in there - account setup, importing CSVs from other places, overview of features.

This post made me feel like an amateur. I have only 3, relatively small book piles.

Inspiring example of someone apparently just building all their own tools. The notes on browser as the place thinking happens is good - I mostly keep text notes on things and lists of links. Might look into those tools a bit, or try Memex again.

The review alone was very well written, quite excited for the book

Good place to look for things to read. Going to try scheduled redirect from Twitter to this page and see if I end up wasting more or less time

I particularly like the interlude:

no, you can’t randomly cite 2,000-page-long books and hope nobody will read them

Solid advice on reading, annotating, and selecting

I got much more into reading in the last few years. Having barely read a book since finishing high school this was a hard habit to rekindle, but very glad I did.

In the morning I read something heavy while having a coffee. This book lives on the kitchen table, and I keep a notepad and a pen/pencil there. I usually read these cover to cover, but spend a bit of time with the table of contents before starting and decide on things to skip to or over. Getting better at marginalia, but I still have a deep-seated reluctance to write too much in the books. The notes are a vague summary of important points, also list of good pages/chapters and sometimes quotes. I try to read for 30 mins at least very soon after waking up.

After this and a bit of work I walk the dog, and usually listen to either biographies, pop-science, or sometimes science-fiction. I tried Audible for a few books, but tended to zone out too often. So I now get ebooks (epub or pdf) and use Google Voice on some Android app to read them. That sweet, tinny, robotic voice at high speed is just unnatural enough to keep my attention. And it comes with the hilarious occasional mispronuniciation, or reading punctuation out load. Dot dot dot.

One annoyance is page headers/footers, or badly OCRd books from Gutenberg. Having the same content read out every page gets a bit annoying, but not enough for me to edit the book and find/replace the content. If I find an easy way to do that (especially from phone) I would love to start though.

These books I usually highlight parts I like, but don’t often take notes because writing on a phone is annoying enough when not also walking the dog. Audible’s easy ‘add highlight’ button was quite good in this regard, but I like being able to review the notes as text rather than audio. And now too happy with this setup to try Amazon’s Audible/Kindle combo so I guess will stick with it for now.

After that it’s mostly just screens and browsers for the day. I would still like a good PDF reader (both application and physical device) but haven’t found anything I particularly enjoy reading on yet. Kindle is a bit small, most tablets are a bit awkwardly sized. Laptop works ok but less so for reading on floor or couch.

I keep a fiction book by the bed that I read before going to sleep. Something easier to read that doesn’t need notes. Base goal here is at least 1 page. Ideal is 20 or more, but I usually go to bed tired and fall asleep fast.