I’m having a little celebration moment right now for my information detective skill. Allow me to share it with you.
Earlier this week I saw a story of one of my IG acquaintances. it was a picture of a page shown on Kindle (see the passage at the end of this post). it looked interesting so I took a screenshot (SS) of it for personal archive. I wanted to ask her about it but ended up forgetting. Now the story is gone and I think it’s awkward to ask her by sending the SS because it feels stalker-ish? Even though 1) I could just have phrased it as “hey, what was that book you reading? I saw you posted a story of it, looks interesting“, and 2) I would just feel flattered if someone is interested in what I am (announcing to the world I) reading.
But my default is to take things to my own hands. I decided it’s more fun to treat it as a game and try to look for the book myself.
Can I solve this puzzle alone?
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I first sent the screenshot to Google Lens to get the text.
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I then looked for the full text in DuckDuckGo. no result
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OK Google, let’s give you a little traffic.
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Thankfully, out of all the papers, podcasts, and articles about education science that Google returned, this one title of a book (the only one it returned in the first 20 results) caught my attention.
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And then I’m grateful to have the ability to immediately retrieve that book and locate the exact passage in Calibre, cracking this puzzle.
Play silly game, win silly prize? That’s fine, at least it’s my kind of silly, heh.
An excerpt from the screenshot that I used to locate the book
Dr Stephen Krashen, the language acquisition expert I mentioned earlier, calls this comprehensible input. By default, the new information you’re consuming isn’t very comprehensible, since it’s not connected to anything you know or have experienced. Over time, the same information will become comprehensible once you have some experience under your belt. In the words of renowned yoga teacher T. K. V. Desikachar: “The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.”
Now, could you guess what book this is from?
