The idea would be you could go to this to get a sense of what it is that's in the book, and that sentence wiull both be idiosyncratic. I don't think none of that stuff was true, by the way, but it was fascinating. And really, do you know how to split the shares on a whaling ship? You know? That kind of thinks if somebody reads that, i think that they read it and get a better sense of why they might want to pick up the book.
Author, lawyer, and poet Dwayne Betts talks about his time in prison and the power of reading with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Betts is the founder of the Million Book Project, which aims to put a small library of great books in 1,000 U.S. prisons. Betts discusses his plans for the project and how reading helped him transform himself.