It’s happened to you, I’m sure: the moment in your book club when someone asks, “Who read up through Chapter Four?” and half the group stares at their feet. What’s wrong isn’t that people aren’t interested; it’s that they’re being unorganizedly. If you join a club to talk about ideas, you don’t want to start […]

In that way, a book club chat group before meeting day are full of silent panic: here’s one person with some tired emoji comment and another talking about how they figured out the ending on page two-hundred. It is pressure-inducing. No one knows if you’re all keeping pace with each other. Can we realisticly read […]

One of the biggest pitfalls with any book club is bad time-keeping. The host wants to ask some good questions about novel’s theme and protagonist’s moral ambiguity. But halfway through, they’ve gotten three people to talk. Everyone else in the group look at their watch and keeps smiling politely. What happened? No one accounted for […]

When you read long articles on your phone or hold a book too close, you probably notice the text blurs and then your neck hurt. It’s an ergonomic problem, most people figure it out accidentally, usually after experiencing some neck pain as their warning signal. You want to be able to see words clearly without […]