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Any advice for reading older books? (lemmygrad.ml)

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For a while I thought I just sucked at reading. And to a certain extent I do have trouble (maybe dyslexia, maybe just really bad adhd), but I noticed that when I read older books it's legitimately a workout compared to books from the last century or so.

This does somewhat include Capital and such, but because I've been exposed to a lot of the terminology and because I inherently understand some of the logic, I can get through it.

But for instance I was trying to read Thomas Carlye's "The French Revolution" and I got through the preface and first two chapters before feeling exhausted. I can't really describe my issue beyond just having to process each an every sentence like I'm a toddler trying to learn how to read.

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Oh, tangentially, this has reminded me of the prolific Niklas Luhmann and his Zettelkasten note-taking/management system. I keep meaning to try out a digital version using org-roam (an Emacs package building on org-mode) or Logseq[1][2].