A great book doesn’t take you away from the world—it brings you back to the world you were torn from.

Reading isn’t an escape—it’s a reckoning.

Rereading is training, practice for remaking and unmaking—and, yes, razing—the world. Rereading draws your best thoughts close, keeps them at the ready, prepares you to think thoughts with them, prepares you to act with them at hand. Your favorite reads are your armor and your weapons and your shelter all in one. What have you gathered about you? What has taken root in your mind? What thoughts are you thinking with?

— @aworkinglibrary , The case for rereading

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/case-for-rereading

#Books #Reading #Life #Lenses #MentalModels

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I learned something very beautiful
today, In French, “bibliothèque
intérieure” means your “inner library”
the invisible shelf you carry inside,
filled with every story that’s ever
shaped you.

All the books you’ve loved, the
heartbreaks you’ve survived, the
random quotes that stuck, the
memories that built you. They all live
there. Quietly reminding you of who
you are and how far you’ve come.

— thirdeye.spiritual on instagram via https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/09/23/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-3/

#Books #Reading #Poetry #Life

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Abolition is both destruction and reconstruction; in abolishing work, you become able to create it anew. For too long, “work” has been synonymous with waged work, with the work we long for an escape from. And everything else becomes the “life” that stands in opposition to work, as if work were somehow an equal to the life it sucks dry.

But what if work was all the change we make in the world, with all the people we make that change with—colleagues and comrades, neighbors and friends, kin in all the kingdoms. What if work wasn’t only what we do at work, but all the ways that work moves out into the world, and all the work we do elsewhere—whether in our homes or in our streets. What if our work is all the things we give a fuck about? What becomes possible then?

— @aworkinglibrary commenting on André Gorz’s, Reclaiming Work

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/everything

#Books #Reading #Work #Unions

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How to Read a Book: 006, Own Your Book
(Or scribble all you want!)

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-006/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #HTRAB #HowToReadABook #MortimerAdler

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My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

— pjharvey on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/pjharvey/782738136201592832/my-best-tip-for-anyone-trying-to-get-back-into

#Reading #Books

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Observations as I Learn to Read, 2

https://janusworx.com/reading/observations-as-i-learn-to-read-2/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading

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How to Read a Book: 005, On Reading Speed (or On #SpeedReading)

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-005/

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Joseph Conrad Forsees Aaron Swartz and the AI Bandits

https://janusworx.com/reading/joseph-conrad-forsees-aaron-swartz-and-ai-bandits/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #AI #AaronSwartz #HeartOfDarkness #JosephConrad

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Observations as I Learn to Read, 1

https://janusworx.com/reading/observations-as-i-learn-to-read-1/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading

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The Four Levels of Reading

https://janusworx.com/reading/how-to-read-a-book-004/

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