reading

13 posts

Douglas Adams on AI, Before There Was AI

A passage from one of the author’s comic novels of the 1980s clarifies a key user flaw of our AI present

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Jan 31, 2026

Engaging with the text

Starting a new practice and next iteration of active reading; blazing a path from my digital garden to my physical tsundoku

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Craft & Practice
Jan 24, 2026

Trying to like Reading again

I miss being a bookworm

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Nat's digital junk drawer
Jan 16, 2026
Page-Turner Tunes: Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children”

Page-Turner Tunes: Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children”

The first entry in a series on my favorite albums for locking in while reading

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Jan 10, 2026

At Present Pace ...

A year's-end reminder that the race is long but only against myself

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Dec 24, 2025

When is a book TOO big?

In terms of sheer size, I’ve finally found my limit with one of my latest reads

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Dec 16, 2025

Read What You Want

Engagement-based media has worried the concept of performative reading into a trend, and too many are falling for it

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Nov 16, 2025

Up Next

One book closes, three more open

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Oct 16, 2025

Enter House

In which I posit that Mark Z. Danielewski might be for the adventure gamers

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Oct 16, 2025

My Current Read

A big, sprawling tip of the spear of what could have been an even bigger, even more sprawling thing

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Oct 6, 2025

Take Three

Not the first iteration, probably not the last

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Journey to the End of the Shelf
Oct 5, 2025

Slackers vs. Strivers

How a pair of books with dramatically diverging philosophies came out in the same year—and fittingly, the more upright one became better known.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jun 11, 2021

Books on Vinyl

Audiobooks are common these days, but advocates for those with vision disabilities saw their value early—as well as the value of the vinyl record.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Feb 18, 2016