Notes on Reading

This is a small site about reading. Not about which books you should read — there are far better recommendation engines than me. This is about the practical side of being a reader as an adult: how to find the time, how to actually finish things, how to keep going when you have started three books and not finished any of them.

Most people I know want to read more than they do. The bottleneck is rarely access to books. It is competing time, screen fatigue, half-finished books that gather guilt, and an unspoken sense that "real" reading should be a particular kind of literary experience that does not match how anyone actually reads in 2026.

Where to start

If your problem is "I never have time," the finding time to read page covers what actually moves the needle. Spoiler: it is not waking up at five am.

If you have abandoned books that you secretly wanted to finish, how to actually start a difficult book might help. And if you keep losing track of what you have read, a reading log turns out to be one of the lower-effort, higher-value habits if done badly enough.

The format question

The endless paper-versus-Kindle debate is mostly noise. Both formats have honest advantages and most readers benefit from using both depending on the situation. Anyone who tells you one is morally superior is selling something.

What this site avoids

No reading challenges, no reading goals tied to numbers, no aspirational lists. The aim is to read more of the things you actually want to read, not to perform reading in a way that looks impressive on social media.