I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to say what he thought _did_ work, then, and at the very end he finally got to what seems to have been his attempt a

I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to say what he thought _did_ work, then, and at the very end he finally got to what seems to have been his attempt at a point: he can conceive of some as-of-yet uninvented perfect knowledge transfer device that outperforms books, so hopefully somebody will be inspired by his post to invent one.