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This might be one of the reasons why I tend to dislike scripted non-fiction podcasts. When I read non-fiction I am a habitual checker of sources. I want to make
by jccalhoun 7y ago
This might be one of the reasons why I tend to dislike scripted non-fiction podcasts. When I read non-fiction I am a habitual checker of sources. I want to make sure they actually say what the book I'm reading claims they say. That is a lot harder to do with podcasts.
- awb 7y ago> When I read non-fiction I am a habitual checker of sources That's amazing. How often do you find errors and how egregious are they? People cherry pick facts all the time, so I tend to take any citation with a grain of salt.
- jccalhoun 7y agoWhen I was in grad school doing research for my dissertation there was more than one time when I came across a great quote I wanted to use, read the original source, and found it didn't have that quote at all. At least twice I searched for that "quote" online and eventually found that it started life as a paraphrase of the work in question and the book I first read and taken it as a quote. In more casual reading I will more often find someone making a grand claim with only a citation to support it and I want to make sure that the source actually makes a solid argument for that grand claim. So it might be something like "Charles Babbage predicted the internet" and I need to go see what he actually predicted to see what he actually said/wrote (I just made that example up)