Why I have an antilibrary (the power of unread books)
7. I keep a notebook in which I jot down the title and author of every book I read. This is true whether I am reading it for the first time or the fifteenth. Keeping a notebook serves a number of valuable purposes. The first is that it will motivate you; it gives you a sense of what you have accomplished, and at the end of the year it will be satis... See more
Matthew Walther • The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy
A library without an index becomes paradoxically less informative as it grows.
-Jorge Luis Borges
The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so you can proudly display them on your shelf; instead, it is to curate a highly personal collection of resources around themes you are curious about. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books
Review books, or write about books you read. In the same mind as keeping an archive of your path, and as a counter to the ‘letting it all wash over you as you go’ mode, taking the time to think effectively about a particular text or series of texts, whether you loved it or not, can be extremely instructive for your own approaches.
Blake Butler • Maximizing Time for Reading
Technology treats the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different, when the reality is that for our brains, the process of absorbing a book is not all too different from the process of producing one. We are always seeking new connections, combining and recombining old ideas to produce new ones. So why is it that we cons... See more