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A Note on Reading Big, Difficult Books...
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Knowledge system and cognitive science guru Andy Matuschak writes a rant called _Why Books Don’t Work_ , about big, difficult books that take him six to nine hours each to read: >Have you ever had a book… come up… [and] discover[ed] that you’d absorbed what amounts to a few sentences?… It happens to me regularly…. Someone asks a basic probing question… [and] I simply can’t recall the relevant details… [or] I’ll realize I had never really understood the idea… though I’d certainly thought I understood…. I’
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