I have added a number of Kindle books to the cart this month in October. I am sure I will buy a couple more by the end of the year. Like flipping through them. Reading on Kindle I find it faster too. The best book I have in my lot is Rushdie's collection of essays, Languages of Truth. I think he is underappreciated as an essayist.
Maybe my Bombay connection makes me like his texts than that of Didion. It is an introduction to his work, making it even more meaningful as a result. I really like it. This I brought along with Orienting by a Pallavi Aiyar. The book has given me hope that bad books can also be published by well-known publishers. I too will send in my manuscript to them. It reads like a bunch of blog posts put together. By far in any measure the worst of my kindle books. I wish I could delete it but it is a good case study of a practice of writing that I think has value. It literally has only internet links as its references. Painfully interesting. Epstein, Newport, and Rob's books are the ones I should focus on. I still have to get to them. Write Useful Books is valuable as a concept. It is a new methodology of publishing Rob has developed where he tests these books before they are published. It seems that way from the evening session from yesterday. However, I try to look at it I find Cal and Epstein not complimenting each other. Contradiction can bring about a third-world view that either of the two books didn't consider. One is about craft and the other is about not having it. They may probably be read in a similar style but content, they are not similar.
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