#703: Keeping Lists of our Reading
Answering a reader's question.
Alan Jacobs is against counting the number of books we read:
Don’t keep count of how many books you read. If you start keeping count you’ll rush, you’ll neglect to be responsive, you’ll get back into that bad habit of just passing your bleary eyes across the page and calling it “reading.”
In many respects, this is sound advice. In an age of self-optimizat…
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