A 40-minute train ride, to most, is like a 40-minute reading block. That doesn’t work out well. In real life, there’s friction. It takes two minutes to unlock your phone. One minute to find your last page. The conductor calls for platform change. Before long, it’s ten minutes. That wasn’t your lack of discipline. That […]

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 […]