http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2006/01/26/thoughts-and-suggestions-on-reading/ A web site by Joshua Sowin that addresses culture, books, technology, ecology, religion, and other topics. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2006/01/26/thoughts-and-suggestions-on-reading/#comment-1915 Marianna Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:05:36 +0000 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2006/01/26/thoughts-and-suggestions-on-reading/#comment-1915 These are very helpful suggestions, for I think that modern education leaves us absolutely disarmed face to the enormous quantity & disparate quality of information available now everywhere, from a local library to the Internet. Taken indiscriminately, it won't be of any help or interest; so a system is vitally important. The problem is often to define the field of reading... and to be as concrete as possible. What is, for instance, Cultural Studies? And Literature, isn't it as vaste as a sea? And History of what? Etc... it is not as easy as one can think.Sometimes I can't but regret not to have a couple of lifetimes ahead... I wholly agree with the advice to mark up the books we read, but I do not find it as easy as it seems to be. In fact, without any academic purpose such a marking is difficult to use afterwards. I mean, I do not always understand myself why I marked this sentence or that -- besides an obvious fact that it affected somehow my reading, but how? And of course, you won't mark in the same way a biography, a textbook and a novel. If there are peolpe who can share their experience, they are most welcome. Thank you These are very helpful suggestions, for I think that modern education leaves us absolutely disarmed face to the enormous quantity & disparate quality of information available now everywhere, from a local library to the Internet. Taken indiscriminately, it won’t be of any help or interest; so a system is vitally important. The problem is often to define the field of reading… and to be as concrete as possible. What is, for instance, Cultural Studies? And Literature, isn’t it as vaste as a sea? And History of what? Etc… it is not as easy as one can think.Sometimes I can’t but regret not to have a couple of lifetimes ahead…
I wholly agree with the advice to mark up the books we read, but I do not find it as easy as it seems to be. In fact, without any academic purpose such a marking is difficult to use afterwards. I mean, I do not always understand myself why I marked this sentence or that — besides an obvious fact that it affected somehow my reading, but how? And of course, you won’t mark in the same way a biography, a textbook and a novel. If there are peolpe who can share their experience, they are most welcome. Thank you

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