Inside View

Instapaper Helps Me Read Deeper

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 ...

Our 500 Books And The College Advantage

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...

I'm Smarter After Importing h/t @readwiseio @inoreader

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...

Who killed literary reading

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...

Earnestly Reading

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...

Short News and Long Read

I'VE ONE LONG READ, five minutes of news summaries and one question this week after reading two Irish Sunday broadsheets. I recommend setting aside some quiet time to read Charles Murray's take on the increasingly sharp polarisation of ...

Some News, a Long Read and a Question

Feed on Feeds

FREENEWS HAS TAUGHT me some important facts about reading the news. First, having a news aggregator in your pocket is great fun. Second, if you feed on feeds and often updating all your regular sources once an hour, you will pay in terms...

Why I spend more time reading paper

I RECKON THAT during the course of an average week, I spend more time reading the printed word on a page than the pixelated word on a screen. That's a lot of reading because it encompasses all the text feeds on 125 blogs every day and ma...

I Wish They Would Read

AS I THUMB through the Sunday papers with a newsagent cheerfully greeting his weekend customers, I have to wonder why my third level college students don't feel obliged to catch up on current events by simply hanging out at a corner shop...

Oozing Microblogs

AFTER READING yet-another e-mail from a friend who bemoans my lack of blogging, I get no respect when I explain I'm microblogging. The lack of respect comes from people who are not impressed with the rise of Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and th...