The Craft of Reading Why the Second Pass Teaches You More Than the First There’s a quiet prejudice against rereading. With so many books in the world and so little time, returning to one you’ve already finished can feel like a waste — a failure of ambition, even, when the unread shelf stretches on … Read more
The Craft of Reading Writing in your books isn’t vandalism. It’s a conversation — and it makes you a sharper reader. A lot of people would no sooner write in a book than scratch their initials into a painting. The book arrives clean and unmarked, and there’s a quiet instinct to keep it that way … Read more
The Craft of Reading The 1,000-words-a-minute promise is mostly marketing. But a few of the underlying techniques are real, and worth knowing. Speed reading is one of those self-improvement ideas that refuses to die, partly because the promise is so seductive: read three times faster, finish a book in an afternoon, devour your entire … Read more
The Craft of Reading Reading more is less about discipline than about removing the small frictions that keep the book closed. Most advice about reading more starts from the wrong premise. It assumes you don’t read because you lack willpower, and so it prescribes willpower: reading challenges, daily quotas, apps that shame you when your … Read more