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Speed Reading or Slow Reading
Author: Antonin VinklerJuly 27, 2024
Speed reading has its benefits – it saves time where there is a lack of available hours or days, and the volume of pages is staggering, or where the attractiveness of the content does not exceed that of an instruction manual. The problem generated by speed reading, though, can be summarised with the following quote [...]
Hoarding Books Versus ‘Living’ their Wisdom
Author: Sukesh MotwaniDecember 31, 2019
I confess: I love seeking knowledge. I read a lot, and also hoard many more books than I can actually read…I am a bibliomaniac. Thomas Frognall Dobson spoke of this fictional “neurosis” that prompts an obsessive desire to collect books. (1) But there is a more fascinating Japanese word for it: Tsundoku, which essentially is [...]