I finally read Seven Pillars of Wisdom for the first time in my life. A task I promised to do since I actually was given the book as an assignment back in college but I ceheated by looking up cliff notes and other people's essays and copying bits off them with my own spin since I never actually opened the book up to read it. Even though my dad spent $40 bucks for my copy lol.But reading through the book, I often had a big headache because I had to highlight a bunch of words so that kindle could show the definition since so much of them were words I never heard of before or vocabulary I have long forgotten the exact definition of since I graduated college. It really ruined the flow of reading Lawrence's writing!But it does make me wonder. I remember in college I often had to have a big large red dictionary with me because of the colossal amount of big fancy words I never heard of before often being used in required readings the night before the classroom discussions I'd do in my dorm. As well as a lot of homeworks asking questions with these fancy mubo jumbo nobody outside academia ever heard of before. It was a gigantic pain having to flip across the book and carrying it around when I'd do assignment outside of my dorm.But now I wonder is large vocabulary a big barrier for people getting into literature particularly those who never went to college? Especially in the days before ebook apps and software like Kindle came with an in-software dictionary that activates when you highlight specific words? I shrudder to think of how some people would have to carry a dictionary around and search up every other page because they come up with new words back in the days when print was the only option for reading! via /r/ebooks https://ift.tt/I3YzWjB
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