Types of books (to read (or not)):
- Books to return to, touchstones that shape or shift a life
- Books to skim, and extract one or a few good ideas
- Books to digest, savor, luxuriate in, internalize in vague ways
- Books like the above…but that you then forget about completely
- Books to grok in general totality, without reading
- Books ‘read’ at a remove, mirrored/echoed in others
- Books as examples, as role models
- Books you only imagine reading, and prefer it that way
- Books better talked about than read
- Books to read and never talk about, ever
- Books that, by their very existence, remind you of something
- Books as beacon, that point you to other books, nesting dolls or fractals
- Books everyone should read (rare)
- Books only you should read (rarer still)
- Books you find on a shelf, part-hidden, and admire from afar