on reading & literature
Sophie Burns on TikTok
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People who read books on the tube
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“Learn to divine books,” Emerson once advised a friend, “to feel those that you want without wasting much time. Remember you must know only the excellent of all that has been presented. But often a chapter is enough. The glance reveals what the gaze obscures...You only read to start your own team.”
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
The Day After
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the death of personal taste in books
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i’m working on making reading less performative — not tracking my books in storygraph & counting how many books I’ve read. just reading for the love of reading