The case for rereading
Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water Reading Well
Simon Sarrismap.simonsarris.comBut there is much to learn from what we think we already know. Each time we revisit material, we discover new meaning in it. We are not the same person who first encountered it, so we see it from a new lens.
Salman @ Quick Brown Fox • 🦊 Repetition as Ritual
“Our investment in reading changes the book because the book has changed us. ... If books are merely a means of transferring information, then perhaps, yes, a book is a waste of time. If a summary of its thesis and key points could be presented in a brief article or Substack post, why not just save the hours and read the Substack post? All the more
... See morebooks I reread once a year to help ground myself. I think about it as my mental + emotional hygiene. ALSO MY MOUTH WAS ON THE FLOOR WHEN I SAW AN UPDATED VERSION OF The Defining Decade at the bookstore?!?!? What the heck! Has anyone read it?
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