Analytic
This was the first serious fiction book that I ever read. It was 604 pages long, and a major struggle for me to persist through1. I effortfully adorned the pages with coloured tags all throughout. There was a vague scheme but the yellow represented words I did not know the definitions of at the time. The words and their definitions are now tabulated:
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I drew upon my uncle’s completion of the novel for persistence. ↩︎
Not every book deserves / warrants the extraction of 300 quotes with analysis.
Instead some books are those layered in rhetoric to deliver the 10, or in this case 13 most important facts:
LLMs?
Backlinks
1. Analytic Readings /words/analytic/
this page is now a pointer to Analytic (the tag).
not all books are read with equal rigour. these one's have been read analytically1
another conception of this tag is in being the final stage in Tiago Forte's "progressive summarisation".
footnotes
as per Mortimer J. Adler's definition of the term in How to Read a Book.