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Finished reading: How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler πŸ“š

Second read (after many years). Plenty to think about (knowledge, memory, understanding, the point of reading, limits and usefulness of categorization, different types of reading). Helpful strategies for, well, how to read a book: specifically, how to analytically read and, once you’ve mastered that, how to syntopically read (multiple books across the same topic). Some points are hammered in till there are hairline cracks on the wall but I admire the passion.

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