https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/Reading notes, short reviews and the passages worth copying out by hand.enhttps://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/on-reading-slowly-on-purpose/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/on-reading-slowly-on-purpose/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000Twenty pages a day, every day, finished more books this year than any binge did.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/five-short-books-for-a-long-flight/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/five-short-books-for-a-long-flight/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Under 200 pages each, and none of them feels thin.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/popular-science-that-respects-the-reader/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/popular-science-that-respects-the-reader/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000The good ones explain the uncertainty instead of hiding it.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/keeping-a-commonplace-book/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/keeping-a-commonplace-book/Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000Copying passages out by hand is slow, which is the point.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/a-novel-told-in-letters-reconsidered/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/a-novel-told-in-letters-reconsidered/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000The epistolary form still works when the letters are allowed to be dull sometimes.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/reading-in-two-languages/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/reading-in-two-languages/Sun, 02 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000Alternating chapters between an original and a translation taught me more than either alone.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/library-hold-lists-as-a-reading-plan/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/library-hold-lists-as-a-reading-plan/Sun, 18 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000Letting the library decide when a book arrives removes a surprising amount of indecision.https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/why-there-are-no-star-ratings-here/https://jdspvse.dynv6.net/posts/why-there-are-no-star-ratings-here/Sat, 09 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000A number cannot say who a book is for.