Started writing short “reviews” of novels on my personal site. I think writing, even a couple sentences, has kept them stuck in my mind for longer.

Latest purchases! Most excited to dive in to Sot-Weed, and to replace my tattered Moby Dick

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Some heavy hitters added to the Lamplight catalogue this week. I’ll be diving into Du Maurier’s short fiction.

Another hands free reading option I’m adding to Lamplight: Eye tracking. Gauge on the right shows my vertical gaze

Added two hands-free reading modes to Lamplight: tilt and auto-scroll. I use it on the treadmill. A screen recording ruins the effect, use your imagination

Best novels from each decade. Spent too long thinking about it, so I missed the trend, but here goes:
50s: Pedro Paramo
60s: Miss Macintosh, My Darking
70s: The Obscene Bird of Night
80s: Confederacy of Dunces
90s: Tehanu
00s: 2666
10s: The Books of Jacob
20s: Ducks, Newburyport

“Even baking a pie has many ramifications” will be rattling around in my head for a long time.

Talking about this book is a struggle, because the experience of a small section is nothing like the experience of the whole. A truly modern novel.

“The revery alone will do”

One of my favorites to revisit during winter, from Emily Dickinson.

My personal favourites from the Lamplight catalog. Check it out!

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Thanks!

Lamplight helps me spend less time on social media. In the downtime where I used to scroll, now, I read.

A download and rating would mean the world. Icon by the incomparable Matthew Skiles, who is a delight to work with.

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I just released Lamplight, an app that splits classic literature into 10 minute chunks to help build a daily reading habit. Set a goal, track your reading streak.

More than a thousand of the greatest books ever written. All content in the public domain.

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Ha, there’s always room for more!

Thanks! Just a list, I find forms cumbersome

Let me know what you think if you try it out! It’s mostly for recording finished sessions rather than keeping score mid-game, so don’t throw out those pens yet.

You can now add custom cover images to your books in Nightstand. (With bonus appearance from the puppy)

Still accepting senior and mid level applicants!

lol reminds me of that Ted talk where a guy filmed one second of every day of his year and turned it into a video. The trick was, he took a whole year off work!

Too real, we couldn’t handle it

Major Nightstand update is out:
- Yearly stats widget
- Monthly summaries
- Suggested searches based on history
- Export shelves and insights to device or social media

I will continue to literature-post until all my followers are gone

I’ve had Middlemarch on my reading list for years. I was expecting it to be excellent (which it is, obviously) but I wasn’t expecting it to be this funny!

Still mostly down on the various “AI-powered” products we’ve seen so far, but it is now possible to build software so good that it surprises the builder. And that at least is exciting.

Speculative fiction with philosophical themes, yes please

Adding some suggested searches based on reading history. These are incredibly accurate for me!

You can also show star ratings.

Also works with shelves!

Export your monthly summary, choosing from one of many lovely custom backgrounds. Coming in the next Nightstand update.