Analytic Readings
this page contains the final step in Tiago Forte's "progressive summarisation" stage. there are between a dozen and two dozen books here that I have analytically read1, and parsed into prose.
footnotes
1
as per Mortimer J. Adler's definition of the term in How to Read a Book.
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:
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?