A reading nook sounds like its just a comfy chair with a lamp, but realy it’s a geometry problem: a physical footprint that has to be solved before anything is comfortabley. That ideal corner of light where everything is perfectly placed for a quiet sense of settling in, well, that’s what usually derails all the […]

It quantifies books’ usefulness relative to amount of time you spend reading them. Whereas other calculators measures “enjoyment” scores and stop there, this one aim to go deeper into measuring real-world benefit. Because, when it comes down to it, price tags don’t always reflect a book’s entire worth. You may have bought a cheap paperback […]

Eighteen dollar for a hardcover novel. I read halfway through it. I set it down because the plot dragged. Was that money wasted? Or did you get eight dollars worth of entertainment? Most people think the former. The price tag is the indicator of value. More often than not, it isn’t. How many pages did […]

The vast majority of us approach reading as if it were a moral virtue instead of a business decision. We purchase books with good intentions, we read them with some degree of attention, then we shove them onto a shelf where they collect dust. Few of us ever question whether we’re using our time wisely. […]