About
OrdoLectura began with a simple question: In a world drowning in information, what if we chose to read less — but think more?
What if, instead of consuming hundreds of articles, we gave one ancient passage the time it deserves? What if we treated reading not as consumption, but as a practice — like meditation, like prayer, like exercise?
The answer became OrdoLectura: a daily discipline of deep reading. Each day, one carefully chosen passage from the works that have shaped human thought — Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Dostoevsky, Simone Weil. Not summaries. Not commentary. The texts themselves, presented with the space to think.
Our method draws on Mortimer Adler's four levels of reading and the Zettelkasten system of note-taking. We don't just deliver text — we teach you how to read and how to remember. Over time, your daily notes form a personal web of wisdom — an intellectual autobiography written one sentence at a time.
OrdoLectura is free. There are no ads, no algorithms, no data harvesting. The project is sustained entirely by readers who believe that deep reading still matters. If this practice shapes your thinking, consider sustaining it.
Our Values
Depth over breadth
One passage, deeply absorbed, outweighs a hundred skimmed.
Slowness as strength
We resist the tyranny of speed and novelty.
Formation over information
We don't inform — we form character and judgment.
Independence
No ads, no algorithms, no corporate interests.
Contact: hello@ordolectura.com