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> "I intentionally read very little fiction" i read only non-fiction. but i retain almost nothing from it. sometimes question the point. just to pass time.
by 5350-uiop-1130 3y ago
> "I intentionally read very little fiction"
i read only non-fiction. but i retain almost nothing from it.
sometimes question the point. just to pass time.
- jodrellblank 3y ago"People seem to forget most of what they read, and they mostly don’t notice" - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zL33c5cHy4bH7HvMcv2py9H https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zL33c5cHy4bH7HvMcv2py9H Linked from "Why books donʼt work" - https://andymatuschak.org/books/ https://andymatuschak.org/books/ - "Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one implied assumption at the foundation: people absorb knowledge by reading sentences. This last idea so invisibly defines the medium that it’s hard not to take for granted, which is a shame because, as we’ll see, it’s quite mistaken."