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Most of the studies I have seen in reading comprehension / learning favors physical books. One of the reasons is the distraction inherent in reading digital books on devices. This doesn’t really apply to dedicated e-readers though. Anyone know of studies / discussions that does a direct comparison with a dedicated device vs paper books?

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“Thus, to the reverent question posed by Morse — What hath God wrought? — a disturbing answer came back: a neighborhood of strangers and pointless quantity; a world of fragments and discontinuities. God, of course, had nothing to do with it.” - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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In times like these I like to think that somewhere, out there, Johnny Gasparini is still searching for his, adjusted for inflation, $5.86.

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I never did read the Dragonlance novels when I was younger. I’m reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight now and the “friends” are all absolute assholes to one another. 🤣

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With all the talk of UFOs lately, I’m kind of hoping we get the “Childhood’s End” treatment. I’m ready. 🛸

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Just finished importing my literature notes from “4000 Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman into TheBrain App.

4000 Weeks Literature Notes in TheBrain
4000 Weeks Literature Notes in TheBrain

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I’m finally trying out TheBrain app.

Two things stand out. Deliberate terminology. You have a thought and a thought has a type. I find that refreshing. This begs for a relatively flat structure with tags added for flavor.

I have a thought about Groundhog Day. It’s a movie type. And its genre tag is comedy-ish. Just like, well, my brain.

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I just spent WAY too long investigating how to sync a highlighted Zotero pdf into Readwise with the highlights intact. All I had to do was look at the imports on Readwise to see that PDF is supported. Worked great! 🤦‍♂️

This is why I’m currently simplifying my digital stack.

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Lines like this are why I love Murakami.

“Who’d want to use the dishes of someone who’d bummed them out.” (Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball)

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It cannot be this heavy of a lift to PREpend text to an Apple Note can it? Best I can tell, you need to:

  • Find original note
  • Get body
  • Delete original note
  • Create new note with new text followed by the original body text.

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Currently importing all of my Readwise highlights to Apple Notes via the Readwise API and Shortcuts. Gonna try native Apple stack for writing, notes, etc. for a bit.

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