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10526080 No.10526080 [Reply] [Original]

Was it a good idea?

>> No.10526089

>>10526080
Consider he would be permanently forced from power and exiled only 7 years later I vote no.

>> No.10526093

>>10526080
man, what if a time-traveler just gave someone a kindle paperwhite with no way to charge it, stocked with shitloads of books

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What the fuck was his problem

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>>10526080
i don't know about those ratios. too many novels, too many historical memoirs, not enough religion or poetry

>>10526104
is tai lopez the reincarnation of napoleon

>> No.10526153

>>10526104
alpha

>> No.10526562

>>10526104
>What the fuck was his problem

That's nothing; When Teddy Roosevelt was speed reading books he would tear each page he'd just read out of the book and throw it on the floor, emitting a heavy grunt at the effort.

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>>10526104
How do I read more than 12 pages of moby dick an hour

>> No.10526672

>>10526104
>the absolute state of speed readers

>> No.10526813

Weren't old books printed in a bigger font, with bigger margins and thicker pages?

I mean, what was the actual content of such a book napoleon read in an hour?

>> No.10528063

>>10526104
He was tired of everyone second guessing his intelligence, so he made sure everyone saw people bring a bunch of books to him, and then just flipped through them absent mindedly, and then sent them away

>> No.10528077

>>10526661
You have to be smart, Anon. That's the secret.