On: How You Know

[ojbyrne]

I hate this: "What use is it to read all these books if I remember so little from them?"

Because reading is enjoyable?

[worklogin → ojbyrne]

Did you read the article? There are multiple reasons for reading, and though many of them feed into enjoyment, it's not always the end.

[ojbyrne → worklogin]

I did read it, and found it trite and obvious. My problems with it were essentially summarized by the particular sentence I quoted.

[kissickas → ojbyrne]

I found it obvious, which pg admits, until this quote: "The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life."

A nice analogy, as others have pointed out, and that is the thirteen-word summary I'll remember from this essay. Not bad, considering most thousand-page books will be compressed down to a page of take-away memories.