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  • The case for rereading

    An Article by Mandy Brown
    aworkinglibrary.com

    Reread a book enough times, or often enough—keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up passages here and there—and it will eventually root itself in your mind. It becomes both a reference point and a connector, a means of gathering your knowledge and experience, drawing it all together. It becomes the material through which you engage with the world.

    • reading
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  • Narrative codes

    The idea, as both sides' counsel worked it out, is that you will regard features like shifting p.o.v.s, structural fragmentation, willed incongruities, & c. as simply the modern literary analogs of 'Once upon a time...' or 'Far, far away, there once dwelt...' or any of the other traditional devices that signaled the reader that what was under way was fiction and should be processed accordingly. For as everyone knows, whether consciously or not, there's always a kind of unspoken contract between a book's author and its reader; and the terms of this contract always depend on certain codes and gestures that the author deploys in order to signal the reader what kind of book it is, i.e., whether it's made up vs. true. And these codes are important, because the subliminal contract for nonfiction is very different from the one for fiction.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • writing
    • reading
  • Finding nourishment vs. identifying poison

    An Article by Austin Kleon & Olivia Laing
    austinkleon.com

    A useful analogy for what [Sedgwick] calls ‘reparative reading’ is to be fundamentally more invested in finding nourishment than identifying poison. This doesn’t mean being naive or undeceived, unaware of crisis or undamaged by oppression. What it does mean is being driven to find or invent something new and sustaining out of inimical environments.

    I would like to adopt that line as a mission statement: “To be fundamentally more invested in finding nourishment rather than identify poison.”

    Because you can identify all the poison you want, but if you don’t find nourishment, you’ll starve to death.

    1. ​​Poison sniffers​​
    • hope
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    • goodness
  • Why we should read

    Unfortunately, the program met its end because the show’s approach opposed the contemporary standard format of children’s television: teaching kids how to read, rather than Reading Rainbow’s objective, which was to teach kids about why they should read.

    Reading Rainbow had a long run, lasting twenty-three years, but its cancellation feels like a symbolic blow. Education, just like climbing the ladder, must be balanced between How and Why. We so quickly forget that people, especially children, will not willingly do what we teach them unless they are shown the joys of doing so. The things we don’t do out of necessity or responsibility we do for pleasure or love; if we wish children to read, they must know why.

    Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design
    • teaching
    • reading
  • The most interesting things that come to mind

    A Fragment by Nabeel Qureshi
    nabeelqu.co

    A meta note, inspired both by Proust and by this book about Proust: after reading a book, when you're making notes, don't refer to the book; just write down the most interesting things that come to mind. This is a better way of digging out what actually struck you about the book; as soon as you have the book to reference, you will start looking up the bits you "should" write about, and end up aiming at comprehensiveness rather than interestingness. Your actual criterion should be whatever interested you. Later, you can fill in quotations & references.

    1. ​​The Zettelkasten Method​​
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  • Of Note: Better Text Annotations for the Web

    An Article by Brandon Dorn
    www.viget.com
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    Generally speaking (and ignoring questions of styling, API availability, etc.), an ideal Web annotation pattern follows these principles:

    1. Annotations appear in close visual proximity to the primary content.
    2. Their design neither distracts from nor hides the primary content.
    3. The preceding principles are followed regardless of screen width.

    The only pattern I’ve found that meets these criteria is FiveThirtyEight’s.

    ...As it turns out, FiveThirtyEight didn't invent this pattern. It likely originated in medieval illuminated manuscripts which contain “interleave notes” — comments written literally between the lines.

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  • Title Cities

    An Artwork by Nicholas Rougeux
    www.c82.net
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    A book’s title page contains more than its namesake—including its author, contributors, publisher, and release date, and. Antiquarian books are known for having lengthy titles, especially those of a scientific nature. These books’ frequently unassuming title pages are gateways to a wealth of knowledge and the focal point of this project.

    Title pages of antique influential scientific books covering a variety of subjects were coded and reimagined as colorful cityscapes based solely on their words to illustrate the unique body of knowledge readers would find within.

    Boxes were drawn around each word of a title page and color-coded by its first letter (words beginning with “A” are one color, “B” another, and so on). Each title page has its own palette. Those boxes were then upended and arranged to form an abstract cityscape while maintaining their original sizes relative to each other.

    • reading
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  • What 80% Comprehension Feels Like

    An Article
    www.sinosplice.com

    One of the major principles of extensive reading is that if a learner can comprehend material at 98% comprehension, she will acquire new words in context, in a painless, enjoyable way. But what is 98% comprehension?

    1. ​​98% comprehension​​
    2. ​​95% comprehension​​
    3. ​​80% comprehension​​
    • reading
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  • Books are meant to be used

    During most of the course students have their books open, either to read or to follow along. Students are encouraged to annotate the books: "Books are meant to be used. Dog-ear the pages, mark them up, put notes in the spacious margins."

    Edward Tufte, Seeing With Fresh Eyes
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  • A web of books

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    A proof of concept for an RSS-like books feed

    Thinking through building some kind of “web of books” I realized that we could use something similar to RSS to build a kind of decentralized GoodReads powered by indie sites and an underlying easy to parse format.

    I created a proof of concept by converting my own bookshelf into a JSON file https://tomcritchlow.com/library.json.

    If you think of several sites publishing their bookshelf as a library.json file you can imagine a bookshelf “feed reader” that let’s you keep track of friends bookshelves

    Tom Critchlow, Library .JSON
    tomcritchlow.com
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    The Airtable database that this website is built on contains an implicit spec for exactly this type of data, plus support for other things besides strictly books. Extracts, works, creators, and spaces all link together to form an ecosystem of content.

  • Silent Conversation

    A Game
    www.mobygames.com
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    Silent Conversation tells classic stories, poems and haiku in an interactive way, inspired by Walter Savage Landor's motto What is reading but silent conversation?. They are presented as levels where the player controls a small line (similar to a text prompt) to go through the winding words.

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  • Wow, that's pretty cool

    To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire. You have to be able to say, at the end, wow, that's pretty cool. This doesn't mean you have to make something. If you learn how to hang glide, or to speak a foreign language fluently, that will be enough to make you say, for a while at least, wow, that's pretty cool. What there has to be is a test.

    So one thing that falls just short of the standard, I think, is reading books. Except for some books in math and the hard sciences, there's no test of how well you've read a book, and that's why merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work. You have to do something with what you've read to feel productive.

    Paul Graham, How to do what you love
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  • Highlighter

    An Application
    highlighter.com
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    Highlighter is a personal knowledge bank and collaborative learning network designed to feed your curiosity and help you examine new ideas.

    1. ​​What this site is​​
    2. ​​Glasp​​
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    Update 2021: Highlighter seems, sadly, not to have worked out. This link now leads to something much less exciting.

  • Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

    An Article by Maggie Appleton
    maggieappleton.com

    We would need a system that enables people to:

    • Publish a list of books they would be willing to discuss with other people to the open web. Antilibraries – collections of books you haven't read yet but would like to read – are particularly well suited to this proposition.
    • See which books people in their social network want to discuss, and/or subscribe to other people's lists
    • Be notified when 4+ people in their network have the same book on their discussion list – possibly via an email thread?
    • Coordinate and schedule a time to read and discuss the book with that group.
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  • If a book can be summarized, is it worth reading?

    An Article by Austin Kleon
    austinkleon.com

    It is my opinion that if a book’s contents can be adequately “summed up,” so that you really don’t miss anything by reading the summary, it is not actually a book worth reading. (Of course, there’s no way to tell whether a summary is adequate or not unless you have also read the book.) Also, I suspect that the harder you find it to summarize a book you have read, the more valuable it might be.

    1. ​​On 'The Master and His Emissary'​​
    • reading
  • Which Books You Truly Love

    An Essay by Salman Rushdie
    www.nytimes.com

    I believe that the books and stories we fall in love with make us who we are, or, not to claim too much, the beloved tale becomes a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgments and choices in our daily lives. A book may cease to speak to us as we grow older, and our feeling for it will fade. Or we may suddenly, as our lives shape and hopefully increase our understanding, be able to appreciate a book we dismissed earlier; we may suddenly be able to hear its music, to be enraptured by its song.

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