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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
"In the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation. Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages."
— college professor Adam Kotsko
Paul Grahamx.comOne of my long-standing requests for products (and a college project never fully realized):
Dewey: Beautiful topic based reading lists (syllabuses) curated by “internet librarians”.
Peter Zakinx.com
Been working on this for a while, and the winter of a global pandemic is as good a time as any
I designed myself a solo “great books of history” project using a syllabus from St. John’s College
Aim: to read the canon and become a “liberal arts” student in the classic sense
Tommy Collisonx.com10 writers whose books I’ve read five or more of:
1- Balzac
2- Hanna Mina
3- Dostoyevsky
4- Anthony Trollope
5- Emile Zola
6- Roger Martin du Gard
6- Alberto Moravia
7- Frederic Dard
8- Graham Greene___LINEBRE... See more
Nassim Nicholas Talebx.comThis state the importance of unread books in a library. They're the reflection of the things we don't know. Just like Empty notes are better than no notes at all, it's a very socratic approach, considering his famous quote:
Knowing this, we should not expect the proportion of unread books in our library to decrease.... See more
What I know is that I know nothing
Knowing this, we should not expect the proportion of unread books in our library to decrease.... See more
Antilibrary - My second-brain
