reading – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Interesting Manga Museum in Kyoto

2024-08-17

Shout-out to an interesting museum in which you can actually touch and read the artworks — mangas.
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Recommendation: Mandrake Stores in Japan

2024-08-17

If you love books, inkl. Mangas, this is the store for you.
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Portrait Mode (90 Degree) Screen and Loving Books

2024-04-17

Putting a display in portrait mode can be surprisingly useful, esp. if you love books.
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Recommendation: folkscanomy

2024-01-13

Damn, the Internet Archive not only has lots of books, but also lots of ... uh, interesting ones.
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Study instead of Media Center

2023-12-03

How about a room without external distractions?
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Reformatting Books with Affinity Publisher

2023-12-03

If you have found texts, incl. books, online that are in a bad quality — why not reformat them for better reading?
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Obsidian – Using Literature Entries

2023-12-03

Quick R script that assists in using summarized literature in Obsidian.
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Recommendation – Thomas Sowell’s «Social Justice Fallacies»

2023-11-17

Very interesting book — not only a warning but also an explanation why good intentions pave the road to hell.
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Private Library Catalogue in Obsidian

2023-11-17

If you have digital books — outside of Kindle and the like — you can create a nice library catalogue with Obsidian.
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Photocopying Kindle Books?

2023-10-28

Well, not actually photocopying them, but a very similar approach.
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Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.