This is probably the only physical book I've purchased in the past several years and felt was a good investment, because of the lack of a decent e-book version.

This is probably the only physical book I've purchased in the past several years and felt was a good investment, because of the lack of a decent e-book version. I haven't actually worked my way all the way through it yet; I had started about a year ago, made it about a third of the way through before getting distracted, and now I'm starting it again because it really is the kind of book that you have to build up piece by piece as a reader. I feel like my Web-browsing-Stack-Overflowing approach to reading over the past several years has hurt me and I hope working through GEB can help me get more experience in really working with a text deeply. I've also found it helpful to consult the MIT OCW video lectures on this book: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/humanities-and-social-sciences/godel-escher-bach/video-lectures/ http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/humanities-and-social-science...