Reading
Reading Pace Planner
The books and essays that shape a clearer view of technology — and a few that simply make for good company.
Reading is where most of these notes begin. Nicole Junkermann keeps a slow, returning list — titles read once and then read again, marked up in the margins and carried from one project to the next. The subjects range across design, attention and the quiet history of the tools we now take for granted.
This is not a list to finish. It grows and shifts with the questions of the moment, and a single chapter can be worth more than a whole shelf. What follows is a snapshot of what is open on the desk right now.
A small planning aid for a reading list. Enter how many pages a book has and how much reading time you expect to give it, and the planner works out roughly how long it will take and what a steady weekly pace looks like.
Enter your numbers and the planner will show a rough pace.
This planner is a simple arithmetic aid. It runs entirely in your browser, stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere. Reading speeds vary a great deal from person to person and from book to book, so treat every figure here as a rough estimate for planning rather than a target, and not as advice of any kind.
Nicole Junkermann keeps the rest of the journal, and the blog has the latest notes.
A page read slowly is worth more than a shelf skimmed in a hurry.From the notebook of Nicole Junkermann
Recently on the notes: Nicole Junkermann on building technology slowly, and Nicole Junkermann on the September restart.