Four Rules:

1. Classify the book according to kind and subject matter

   • Classify (practical vs. theoretical, fiction vs. non-fiction)

2. State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity

3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole

   • Set forth the major parts of the book, and show how these are organized into a whole, by being ordered to one another and to the unity of the whole

4. Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve

5. Coming to terms with the author

7. Find the important words and through them come to therms with the author

Work in Progress§

#WIP

Active reading is quite old and established/mature, spans the Education literature as well as [HCI]. - [active reading] is also another thing to add to the claim that [[C- People process complex information in multiple levels and stages of processing]] - R-Sources - [[R- LiquidText A Flexible Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading]] is a decent entry point into the [active reading] literature - the [[LiquidText]] system in particular is nicely grounded in [[R- Active reading and its discontents]], which is a nice formative study of active reading with interviews and [Participatory Design] workshops - another decent one is [[R- Beyond paper supporting active reading with free form digital ink annotations]], which cites [[R- A diary study of work-related reading design implications for digital reading devices]] as a #canonical ref for [active reading]

[[C- Curation is an important role in maintaining a decentralized discourse graph]]. [[C- It will be important to capture the potential energy of information consumption]].

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Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading§

Metadata§

• Author: [[Maria Popova]]
• Full Title: Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/11/hermann-hesse-types-of-readers/

Highlights§

• We have an inborn tendency to establish types in our minds and to divide mankind according to them. [But] however advantageous and revealing such categories may be, no matter whether they spring from purely personal experience or from attempting a scientific establishment of types, at times it is a good and fruitful exercise to take a cross section of experience in another way and discover that each person bears traces of every type within himself and that diverse characters and temperaments can be found as alternating characteristics within a single individual.
  • Tags: [[categories]] [[spectrum]] [[favorite]]
• But what grants this reader her or his superiority over the other types is, above all, a trained capacity for associative thinking that turns the reading material into a springboard for indiscriminate curiosity from which to leap far beyond the
• this stage is a poor, an immature reader. He does not know that all the poetry and all the philosophy in the world lie within him too, that the greatest poet drew from no other source than the one each of us has within his own being.

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Python file handling - reading§

Go to the [[Python Week 4 Main Page]] or the [[Python - Main Page]] Also see the [[Programming Main Page]] or the [[Main AI Page]]

For code examples see [[Week4 Reading From Files Lab]]

See [[Python file handling - writing]]

The ‘open()’ function§

Syntax:

File1 = open("/home/websinthe/Documents/code/example.txt", "r")

• File1 <— File object
• open <— function name
• "/home/websinthe/…/example.txt" <— file path
• "r" <— mode

Common modes include:

• w <— write (writes from beginning of file)
• r <— read
• a <— append
• r+ <— read/write (need to take care of line cursor placement)
• x <— create file

You use the file object to gain information about the file. Think of it as pouring the contents of the file into a variable and using the variable’s methods to interact with the file’s data.

File1.name —> /home/websinthe/Documents/code/example.txt File1.mode —> r File1.close —> you always need to close the file, which is why you always use the with statement instead of just opening a file straight up.

The ‘with’ context manager§

#contextmanager

The with context manager ensures that the file being manipulated is closed after it is used without the code having to explicitly handle the file’s closure.

with open("/home/websinthe/Documents/code/example.txt", "r") as File1:
	file_contents = File1.read()
	print(file_contents)

All operations within the indent block will be executed and then the file will be closed.

file_contents = File1.read() <— outputs the contents of the file to the variable file_contents = File1.readlines() <— outputs the lines of the file as elements of a list object to the variable file_contents = File1.readline() <— outputs the first line of the file to the variable, ==each subsequent time it is called, it will output the next line to the variable== file_contents = File1.readlines(4) <— outputs the first 4 characters of each line to the variable

• Metadata
  • Title: LiquidText: A Flexible, Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading
    • Tags:: #[references] #[D/Synthesis Infrastructure]
  • Authored by:: [Craig S. Tashman] , W. Keith Edwards
  • Year: 2011
  • Publication: CHI ‘11
  • PDF
    • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LNJG5omgCORzqbDaURkZqk1fpF76Orbl/preview
• Context
  • #canonical ref for probably [SOTA]-class system as of [April 7th, 2020] for [synthesis] tools
• Reading notes
  • Introduces [[LiquidText]] system
  • Also has nice review of basic ideas about [active reading]
  • #Claim To support [active reading], systems must enable people to trace excerpts back to their original [context] (p. 7)
    • cf. [[C- Knowledge must be recontextualized to be usefully reused]]
    • cites [[R- Student readers use of library documents]] as justification
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Reclaiming the stacks: reading§

Reading books and other things on ereaders.

Also consider: reading paper books.

Software/platforms§

Support/build§

• [[koreader]]
• DRM-free [[epub]]s
• [[Calibre]]
• [[Calibre-Web]]

Appropriate/resist§

• DRMed ebooks
  • https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

Avoid/regulate§

• anything Amazon-related

Hardware§

Support/build§

• there’s some open-source readers like the [[Open Book]], but they don’t have much functionality

Appropriate/resist§

• koreader installed on a second hand [[Kobo]]
  • better than a Kindle
• hacking firmware of big tech ereaders

Avoid/regulate§

• new ebook readers from big companies

Labour / supply chains§

Energy§

• How much energy in the construction of an ebook reader?
• How much energy in the production of epubs?
• How much energy in the running of the various platforms/computers involved?