The rise in home videoconferencing lets us browse more people's bookshelves
When I was young, the first thing I'd do when visiting someone's apartment for the first time was to browse their bookshelf and record (or tape or CD) collection. That was a great way to find...
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Listen to Daniel Radcliffe read Harry Potter
Wizarding World has launched a new Harry Potter at Home hub with crafts, articles, quizzes, and other fun activities for witches, wizards, and muggles alike. As part of the fun, they've invited...
View ArticleBand offers to send students copies of books banned by Alaska school board
In Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough School Board voted to pull classic literary works The Great Gastby, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Invisible Man, The Things They Carried, and...
View ArticleHere are some books Bill Gates recommends we read this summer
If you're in the market for book recommendations to fill up your stay-at-home hours, here's a short list of favorites from Bill Gates. Check out his longer list on his blog, GatesNotes blog.
View ArticleRead more books by using the downtime feature on your iPhone's screen time...
In this essay titled "How I Read Two Books a Week," Anthony Draper offers "surprising and practical steps you can take now to read more." My favorite tip is using the downtime feature on your iPhone's...
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Why it's okay you never finished reading that book, according to Francis...
I generally have a few piles of books around my house — I impulse-buy a lot. I start reading most of them, but only rarely finish one. I usually feel lousy about this — it's my fault for being too...
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Wisdom Tree holds your books' place
Avid readers, forget bookmarks*. Here's a classy way to hold your place in the books you're reading. It's called the "Wisdom Tree" and it's also a lamp. This wood nightstand topper stacks up to five...
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Get 4 months of Kindle Unlimited free
I've been a happy paying subscriber to Kindle Unlimited for years. To me, it's like a library that you pay $10 a month to access. You can borrow up to 10 books at a time and keep them checked out for...
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Goodreads has a problem with extortion scams and review bombing
Many authors will go to great lengths to minimize their negative reviews, and a slew of one-star careers can be a major detriment to a writer's career. Because of the influence of the book review site...
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This cool subscription service brings new curated books right to your door
My friend Janet Towle has just started a new subscription service called The Manzanita Papers, where a different writer or editor selects a different under-appreciated book to send out each month. "We...
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You can finish these crime novels in a single day
I was once told by an English teacher that long books are strong books. It kind of smacked of bullshit, It tastes like a mouthful of it now. Don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong with a good, long...
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This is the best book of the past 125 years, according to New York Times Book...
This year marked the 125th anniversary of the New York Times Book Review. To celebrate, the editors asked readers to nominate "the best book published" in those 125 years. They culled 200,000 ballots...
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The Fable app is the modern book club
Remember when we used to say "BRB" when stepping "AFK"? Now that we all carry a keyboard in our pocket thanks to mobile phones, no one is ever "AFK," and "BRB" is a memory. As the singularity continues...
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Does "bionic" text read better to you?
Bionic Reading bolds certain syllables under the hypothesis that this makes it easier to read and absorb bodies of text. Check out this example, posted to Twitter by UX expert Juan Buis: it's...
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Can "Bionic Reading" increase reading speed and comprehension?
Have you tried Bionic Reading? It's a patented and trademarked process that ostensibly makes text easier to grok by boldfacing the first few letters of each word. From the website: Bionic Reading...
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