







PHerc. 1667 has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
I stopped my Kindle from opening other books until I’ve finished the current one
You can read me like a (currently) open book.

The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps
The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the ‘read it later’ app …

Letting things build
This week I put together a reading list for my digital aura series. I recall starting to write around Thanksgiving — but when I looked back at my reading, I’d started reading for it months earlier. (No wonder it’s felt like such a big endeavor!)
Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.
Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction by Mairead Small Staid
February 8, 2019 – Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?

Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

ShelfCheck — Your Reading List, Your Library, Available Now
Upload your Goodreads or Hardcover reading list and instantly see which books are available to borrow for free at your local library through Libby.

Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.

OpenRxiv & Curvenote’s new Reader launch took to the stage at FORCE11 2026
At FORCE11 2026, Curvenote showcased the newly launched Curvenote Reader deployed over all of openRxiv to enthusiastic feedback from scientific publishing leaders — with callouts on the innovation from the opening and closing keynotes as a meaningful step forward for open science.

On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges
We present an overview of the last ten years of research on visualizations that support close and distant reading of textual data in the digital humanities. We look at various works published within both the visualization and digital humanities

This Viral ‘Purse Kindle’ Is Tiny, Adorable, and a Lot of Work
The Xteink e-readers are compact and portable, but, with a steep learning curve, they’re not for everyone.

Your unread queue, on your e-reader. Standard Reader now publishes OPDS, so every publication is a catalog any e-reader app can browse. Articles come down as real EPUBs with the images. Comics as CBZ. Read on the device, and your place shows up back in the app. standard-reader.app/guide/e-readers