You have to get used to reading old stuff and the specific time period you’re reading. Reading Godwin and Burke was slow for me at first.
For Popper, you have to get used to a more academic or dense/wordy/complex/difficult style than Rand but a more accessible style than many other academic philosophers. It’s partly some of the subject matter itself being difficult and partly writing style.
Be patient. It’ll improve with practice, experience and problem solving.
Literacy rates were lower then. And I think way fewer people would read hundreds of novels like a fair amount of people today do. Maybe we’d find them a bit slow and clumsy at reading or something; I don’t know; you’d have to ask a historian.
But also, they were used to how people talked (and wrote) back then. Culture and language shifts make things harder to understand. You’d also have more trouble with their speeches or plays than modern ones. It’s not just about reading.
I just highlighted multiple and just copy and pasted. The links were pasted over too. Only thing I really had to do was edit the formatting. Idk how it works, but it copied over the black background of your website in sheets. I just had to change that.
The reason it took me a bit of time was that I’ve been trying to use https://www.libreoffice.org/ Calc (their spreadsheet). I didn’t want to pay for microsoft and thought it would be neat to have a more “permanent”/off-line program, but its been a bit annoying to use. I decided the other day to use sheets (I really like the syncing feature, can jump between my PC and mac) and just download backups of my sheets as a “permanent” solution. Its not like I’m trying to make complicated sheets anyways. I’m just keeping track of various things like what shows I watched, books I want to read, etc.
I made the spreadsheet in sheets in like 10 minutes. If that?
