[everdrive]

I've even considered printing off essays from the internet I find insightful. I want to reread them, read them in bed, preserve them for the future. Archive.org does exist, but everything on the internet seems to be ephemeral.

[eudamoniac]

After I started reading essays printed in books, like Emerson's, I realized there is no blogger alive that is worth reading anymore. Something to consider.

[dhosek]

It’s not merely that—I’ve found that reading a book on a technical topic is a faster route to understanding than trying to learn it from random webpages spewed forth by the google.

[voidhorse]

Amen. I never understood how such an avid blog reading community existed when, compared to published essays, the vast bulk of it is drivel. I guess I simply hadn't realized that many people out there may have never read a formal or published essay. What a shame.

[eudamoniac]

For the same reason that an avid young adult fiction community exists made of mostly old adults, I suppose.

[everdrive]

What essays can you recommend?

[eudamoniac]

Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Wallace, Orwell, Hume, Kant, Foucault, Evola, most philosophers you've heard of