The Reading Life

The world around reading — book clubs and bibliophilia, public libraries and bookshops, book reviews and bestseller lists, and the habit of reading for pleasure.

Read more, on purpose — free calculators for your reading time, reading speed, a books-per-year goal, your TBR backlog, audiobook length, and book-club pacing, plus plain-English guides to the history and craft of books and reading.

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The Reading Life

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