Books · 24 March 2025

Undertaking a doctorate degree, especially a PhD in the humanities, generally means years of being text-bound. Reading papers and books, taking notes, and writing. Rinse and repeat, every day for three to six years. This cycle is, of course, happily interrupted by teaching commitments, conference visits, giving talks or doing community outreach. Yet fundamentally, the written word is at the core and reading and digesting the knowledge of a field means skim-reading thousands and thousands of...