Genres: Reading
Supercharge Your Reading – Maneetpaul Singh
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This is a short guide showing you how to maximize your reading if you own an e-reader, specifically focusing on the features that come with a Kindle. While there is some good advice here I take exception with his advice on note-taking in books. Singh says that taking notes in a notebook is way too…
Just One More Chapter – Maneetpaul Singh
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This is a short motivational guide with practical advice to help you set up a reading practice. You can feel the strong influence of Atomic Habits in Singh’s writing with his habit tips, which he acknowledges in the paragraph after I had that thought. If you’ve steeped in habits, you don’t need to read this.…
Ruined by Reading – Sharon Schwartz
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Ruined by reading was a very different book than I expected. I didn’t expect this memoir on the affect of reading to the author’s life to be a keep but it continually asked thought provoking questions about the nature of power and our imagination. Schwartz questions the very nature and content of a book and…
The Case for Books
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In this book Robert Darnton tries to explore the impact of Google’s Project Gutenberg on the book industry. While we may have a different perspective on the impact of that project from our perspective years after it happened, Darnton does a good job of laying out the possible impacts if Google was successful with it.…
The Lost Art of Reading
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This is a book examining the cultural significance of reading. We’ll pull out a few highlights. David Ulin talks about the purveyors of fake news working hard to normalize that which should never be normalized. We see it both in the content the anti-Semitic content that Elon Musk shares on his social media site, and…
