Finishing is not the point
There is a particular guilt attached to the unfinished book, and I have decided it is misplaced.
Read more →The library is the last building with no agenda
Make a list of the indoor public places you can spend three hours without buying anything. It is a short list, and it is getting shorter.
Read more →I read better on paper and I know why
The nostalgic version of this argument is about the smell of books and I want no part of it.
Read more →Notes in the margin are a conversation
People flinch at this. Writing in a book feels like damage, and for a rare or borrowed one it is. For an ordinary paperback that you own, it is the difference between reading and thinking.
Read more →Why this is a website and not a newsletter
Everyone said newsletter. The advice is not wrong — email reaches people, lands in a place they check, and does not depend on an algorithm's opinion of you.
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