Speed of speech is typically thought of as something innate, like eye color, or height: it can’t be changed. It can. It’s variable, depending not just on number of hard-to-pronounce names in book, but also how they’re punctuated and what voice you’re giving them. When you think of your manuscript as a fixed chunk of […]

It always feels strange to see your ereader say you are thirty percent through a book when you still have thick stacks of pages left in your hands. That’s because there is a discrepancy between the number of actual pages vs. This is the number of “pages” the ereader thinks you’ve read. Most reading plans […]

It’s that moment, your book club date is looming (three days away!) and you’re at chapter 12 of a 40-chapter novel. You know how to solve this. You panic about the math: Will it be two weeks? Five hours? But it isn’t the content that triggers your panic, it’s the math. That is, it’s the […]

As your ebook library expands and your available reading time shrinks, you start to get anxious. On Monday, you grab a new book and feel good about yourself for an hour. But then life gets in the way. By Wednesday, you’re looking at progress bar and wondering: did I read ten percent? Or maybe it’s […]