A series since 2019
Reading slowly
Rereading, attention, notebooks and the case against treating a book as a quantity to be got through.
The other half of typography is the reader. This series is about reading as it actually happens: in short winter sessions, with a pencil, eleven times over, in a notebook nobody can search.
If On the page is about how a page is made, Reading slowly is about what it is for.
In reading order
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Essay · Start here
Six years of a paper notebook
What survives in a paper notebook that does not survive in a file, and why the thing I most value about it is that it cannot be searched.
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Note
Notes on rereading in winter
Why the reading changes when the light does, and the small ritual I keep on the first Sunday in January.
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Essay
Reading the same book for the eleventh year
I reread one novel every January. What eleven passes have actually changed, and why the book is now an instrument rather than a story.
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