Tagged “reading”

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