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Donald · Reading

How to Open a Project Gutenberg Link Directly in Guten

Sasha · Collections

How to Search a DVD or Blu-ray Collection by Spine Text

Annie · Lending

How to Pick a Borrower From Contacts Without Giving an App Your Whole Address Book

Sasha · Information systems

How to Use Tag Autocomplete to Keep a Large Archive Consistent

Donald · Reading

How to Download a Weekend Reading Stack Before Going Offline

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Import Shelf Photos You Already Took Into Shelf Scan

Annie · Lending

How to Scan a Book's ISBN Instead of Typing the Details

Donald · PKM

How to Find Clips You Saved From a Particular Source App

Donald · Reading & learning

How to Make a Dense Classic Easier to Read on a Phone Screen

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Build a Searchable Shelf-Photo Library in Ten Minutes

Annie · Lending

How to Photograph What You Lend So You Know What Should Come Back

Donald · PKM

How to Save an Article Excerpt and Keep the Page Title and URL With It

Sasha · Books & libraries

I Can't Find My Books

Donald · Reading & learning

How to Search Inside a Long Classic Without Flipping Through Chapters

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Search a Double-Shelved Bookcase Without Cataloging Both Rows

Annie · Lending

How to Answer “Who Has My Tools Right Now?”

Donald · PKM

How to Save a Passage From Any Android App Without Opening a Notes App First

Donald · Learning & study methods

When Should You Study an Example Instead of Testing Yourself?

Nico · Books & digital texts

What Gets Lost When a Book Becomes .txt?

Nico · Classics & meter

What Is Dactylic Hexameter, and What Happens to It in English?

Nico · Classics & translation

Why Read More Than One Translation of the Same Classic?

Nico · Classics & reading

Why the Classics Are Usually a Good Bet

Nico · Classics & oral tradition

Why Does Homer Keep Repeating Himself?

Nico · Classics & translation

Why Do Greek Names Change Between Translations?

Nico · Classics

Why Is the Trojan Horse Not in the Iliad?

Nico · Classics & reading

Should You Read the Iliad or the Odyssey First?

Nico · Classics

The Iliad Begins in the Tenth Year of the War. What Happened Before Book 1?

Annie · Software & data

The Hidden Cost of Switching Apps Is Your Data

Annie · Software costs

What Does a $5-a-Month App Actually Cost?

Annie · Lending

The Things You Lose Because You Lent Them Out

Annie · Lending

Why Put a Due Date on Something You’ve Lent to a Friend?

Annie · Lending

How to Lend a Kit Without Losing Half the Pieces

Donald · Reading & learning

How to Read a Difficult Book in 15-Minute Sessions Without Losing the Thread

Donald · Personal systems

How Can You Tell Whether a Productivity System Is Actually Working?

Donald · Personal data

How to Run a Small Personal Experiment Without Fooling Yourself

Donald · Personal data

When Should You Stop Tracking?

Donald · Personal systems

When Is Habit Tracking Actually Worth It?

Donald · Personal data

How Long Should You Track Something Before You Analyze It?

Donald · Personal data

Why Timestamps Are So Useful in Personal Logs

Donald · Reading & learning

What Should Happen to a Highlight After You Make It?

Donald · Reading & learning

Is Highlighting Actually Helping You Learn?

Sasha · Research

How to Build a Research Archive You Can Reopen a Year Later

Sasha · Archives

How to Turn a Pile of Screenshots Into a Searchable Reference Collection

Sasha · Private libraries

How to Make an Inherited Library Searchable Before You Decide What to Keep

Sasha · Information systems

Tags or Search? When Is Tagging Actually Worth the Work?

Sasha · Information systems

Save the Reason, Not Just the Link

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Find a Specific Book in a Used Bookstore

Sasha · Private libraries

Your Books Are in Boxes. How Do You Find Anything?

Sasha · Private libraries

How Much Metadata Does a Personal Library Actually Need?

Sasha · Reading

When Your Books Have to Stay Home: How to Build a Portable Reading Library

Donald · Digital life

Why Software Feels Better When It Doesn’t Want Anything From You

Donald · Reading

How to Turn Your Commute Into Reading Time

Sasha · Research

How to Use Guten for School and Academic Research

Sasha · Reading

The Fun of Sharing Favorite Lines From What You’re Reading

Nico · Classics

How to Read Homeric Greek Beside an English Translation

Donald · Reading

Reading Instead of Scrolling: How to Turn Spare Phone Time Into Book Time

Annie · Personal data

How to Keep a Symptom or Food Diary for Your Doctor Without Making It a Second Job

Annie · Lending

How to Run a Small Lending Closet for Tools, Games, or Equipment

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Find a Book When You Can’t Remember the Exact Title

Donald · PKM

How to Build a Digital Commonplace Book on Android

Donald · PKM

How to Keep a Personal Knowledge System Without Putting It in the Cloud

Sasha · Private libraries

How to Manage a Family Library Spread Across Several Rooms

Sasha · Private libraries

How to Keep Track of Books You Lend Without Cataloging Your Entire Library

Nico · Reading

How to Build an Offline Library of Classic Books for Travel

Nico · Reading

What Does “Public Domain” Actually Mean for a Reader?

Donald · Personal data

How to Use a Personal Log and AI to Look for Patterns in Your Own Data

Donald · Personal data

What Should You Track If You Want Your Personal Data to Tell You Something Useful?

Sasha · Lending

How to Manage a Tiny Lending Library with Just an Android Phone

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Check Your Home Library from a Bookstore with Shelf Scan

Donald · PKM

Using Keep Clip as the Capture Inbox for a Larger PKM System

Donald · PKM

How to Analyze a Keep Clip Export with AI

Sasha · Books & libraries

How Can I Search a Large Home Library Without Cataloging Every Book?

Donald · PKM

What’s a Better System Than Sending Links to Yourself?

Annie · Lending

How Do I Keep Track of Things I Lend to People?

Nico · Reading

Where Can I Read Classic Books for Free?

Donald · PKM

Do You Really Need a Second Brain?

Sasha · Books & libraries

How to Avoid Buying a Book You Already Own

Annie · Comparison

Paper List, Spreadsheet, or App: What’s Best for Tracking Things You’ve Lent?

Donald · Reading systems

How to Turn an Old Android Tablet Into a Dedicated E-Reader

Sasha · Private libraries

How to Manage a 1,000-Book Home Library Without Turning It Into a Project

Nico · Reading

How Can I Read Classic Literature Without Amazon or Kindle?

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