Stuck Picking
The unread pile you keep adding to isn't a reading list. It's a to-do list — and that's why you keep getting stuck between books.
On reading, thinking, and the journey of expanding knowledge
Reading in Company
For most of history, reading was a social activity. Let's bring it back.
The Rereading Dilemma
Most readers barely reread. The small number who do it seriously describe a fundamentally different activity from first-reading — and they may be the only ones doing it right.
The Law of the Unlikely Pair
Aby Warburg organized his library by a principle he called the law of the good neighbor — the book you are looking for is rarely the one you need.
Darwin's Reading Notebooks
The naturalist kept a list of every book he read from 1838 until 1860. Most people know Darwin the theorist; almost nobody knows Darwin the reader.
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