
I HAVE A 12 YR OLD daughter who reads 300 pages a day because she loves the written word. I plan to pay her a tenner whenever she ploughs through a recommended text that we can use as a springboard for a recorded discussion. We have a ...
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I GET MORE from the books I read or the subscriptions I fund when I can explore segments of them in different formats. So when I glance back at highlighted passages through the use of apps, I often recall important points I forgot on ...
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I HAVE BEEN COMPLICIT in the decline of long form reading at this level and this year I want to correct the process. I will start with a collaborative essential reading list.
Like many of my friends, I have become lazy by reading the Tw...
By Bernie Goldbach in Cashel. Photo of the 200 item bookshelf.
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES across 27 nations have documented the positive effects of book-lined shelves in homes. Children who grow up in homes with 500 or more books enjoy p...
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I TRY TO WORK SMARTER by adopting intelligent routines. Perhaps the most important routine I've adopted involves using Readwise behind the scenes to import highlights from things I've read. I started
reading wiser because I wanted to s...
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I'M GETTING A SLOW START to 2021 but that means having time to read a Twitter thread containing clever time-saving tips from Vincent Hayward. I've an opinion on several of Vincent's ideas.
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CHRONICLE -- You don't need a survey to detect the decline of reading, the diminished clout of the book. Vist Easons or Hughes&Hughes at major transit points in Dublin and you'll see evidence for yourself. Carman Roman mulls the anecdota...
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WHILE LIVING IN GERMANY, I used to read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the language of my forebears and it was comforting.
While living in Kilkenny, I often found German emanating from the local paper in pieces written by Josephine Gräfi...
THOSE WHO FOLLOW MY meanderings around Qik know that many Sunday mornings include a short walkabout the Rock of Cashel and into a shop where we buy a few Sunday newspapers. [0] Today, we returned home with the Observer, the Sunday Busine...
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