Or: You’re halfway through your 80,000-word novel, having written exactly 42,000 words. Cold dislike glares back at you from the blinking cursor. On one hand, you’re proud; on the other, you’re petrified: Forty-eight thousand more words remain before the deadline arrives. Which means you’ll need to type them all right now, right? You might do […]

When you finally notice that half the semester has gone by without finishing your reading, what do you think? If you’re like most people, you gets worried. You should of, because that is typicaly due to a mistake in your calculations rather than procrastination. Why does that one book that you can cram into your […]

It can be frustrating if you’re at the end of a book and realize there’s no way you’ll finish on time, two chapters left! Yet the app display three days of listening. That’s just how split our attention tends to get. With a digital library, it’s up to us to adjust this ratio. Want to […]

Good Intentions: Full Battery You sit down with good intentions and a full battery. The audiobook looks promising, and the commute is long enough to listen. You’ve got twenty-five minutes before the next meeting. Hit play. Get three minutes into the chapter. You realize too late that it’s going to run for forty minutes. Your […]