I get the feeling people don't love these (not that this was the world's most popular blog before, but the numbers really dropped off). Maybe I'll come up with some kind of filler while I finish this book until I dive into "actual" books again.
To be fair, I'm not the biggest fan of the last couple chapters either. They've been fairly repetitive (this one is mostly elaborating on doing the title/chapter preview thing) and over long (which is saying something when they're only like ten pages). I really liked the initial premise, "People need to be taught how to read at a higher level" but I think there's been maybe 15 pages of teaching in the 70 I've read (~20% is not a great ratio). Going to stick with it a bit longer, but I hope it picks up.
This chapter deals (besides repeating other parts) with classifying books. Fiction vs nonfiction, practical vs theoretical, etc. Maybe it's my creative writing major coming out, but I've always found trying to "pigeonhole" books as a wasteful endeavor. Most books will contain elements of several categories (which he does acknowledge, though he never really reconciles it with the rest of the chapter), and those categories are often poorly defined or unhelpful anyway. He sort of acknowledges this critique, but doesn't really respond effectively. He just makes an awkward metaphor to different teachers teaching different subjects differently.
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