The clock is ticking as you sit in front of a thick textbook chapter. You have only so many hours left in the day, and you don’t just want to read. You want to understand what you read so you can recall it on Tuesday’s test. There’s a tradeoff here, the faster you go, the […]

The progress bar hovers well above middle; you’ve got ten hours logged with the app so far. You’d like to share your current location with a friend, but explaining “ten hours” doesn’t mean much to them. Especially since they’re holding physical copy of the book. If you can read a novel in ten hours, does […]

And then there’s panic mode, you look at your calendar, and you see that your deadline is nearer than your word count. So you pull up a chair with high hopes: you’ve got a big number written on a sheet of paper; you feel vaguely anxious; you mean business. But then you open Word and […]

Take a thick hardcover in your hands. Read the spine. Look at page count. You feel anxious because you want to read this thing by Friday. But it doesn’t feel like a doable number of pages, its too many. Here’s the problem: Pages lie. They tell us we’re getting an even amount of weight across […]