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I love the book project, it makes me think of Ann Morgan who has done something similar (https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/ https://ayearofreadingthewo

• sixstringtheory 4y ago
  Thanks for the link! That will help my selection process. Otherwise it’s not very systematized, I go off of book reviews, recommendations from friends, and lots of perusing in used/new book stores. She points out another thing, which is cultures with oral traditions instead of written. For instance, I’ve purchased a few compilations of oral histories and folklore from Native Alaskan peoples, which were translated by anthropologists. It provides a good opportunity to think about how knowledge is interpreted between cultures. Eventually I’d like to create some kind of web app to track my progress.