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How to be a word detective | Psyche Guides

Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in

Best of New York Times

Click through for our favourite writing from the New York Times

How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery—a new study offers clues

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes

The 100 Best Essays from Aeon

Click through for our favourite wrting from Aeon magazine

Describe a Lever in Words and a Diagram

Section 2 of Chapter 5: Why the diagram succeeds when a sentence may fail, and how different modalities work in cognition?

Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More

For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week's allowance fresh in hand.

The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them

ELI

Paste any research paper and understand it at your level. From picture-book simple to college-level analysis, every section adapts to you.

Ten Books Worth Adding to Your Library

In my opinion, there are few investments more valuable than a good book.

Reading vs. Listening (Rebroadcast) - KUT & KUTX Studios - Podcasts

Ever caught yourself saying “I’m reading a great book” only to awkwardly correct yourself with “…well, actually I’m listening to it”? That guilty pause says a lot. But you have nothing to feel bad about. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, Dr. Bob Duke…

The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.

What Exactly Is E-Ink—and How Does It Do Its Thing?

You see it mentioned on almost every e-reader device—that is, tablet specialized for reading e-books—but what is it, really?

What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity

Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…

Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Fre

Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro.

F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read

Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design strategies to prevent harmful scanning patterns. An upcoming part of Smart Interface Design Patterns.

Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unknown.

Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and reading widely - Driverless Crocodile

This is a great riff on how reading works and on the network effects of reading. Links below. Tyler says: … I go through five or ten books a day. And which parts of them I’ve read you can debate – maybe it washes out to be two or three books a day. Some good… Read More »Tyler…

The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.

Eight of Literature's Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work

These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche

BookTok Book List With 43 Billion Views Has Sent Barnes & Noble Sales Soaring

Barnes & Noble has found new life in a community of TikTokers that has taken the publishing industry by storm.

20 Short Novels To Stay Up All Night Reading

Unputdownable books you can finish in bed tonight.

How to study effectively | Psyche Guides

Forget cramming, ditch the highlighter, and stop passively rereading. The psychology of learning offers better tactics

From teen wizards to Harry Styles romances: How Wattpad created a user-gene

Wattpad is turning these user-generated stories into books, TV shows, and movies.

Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video

People tend to think of digital media as entertainment, so they devote less mental effort than when they’re reading a printed book.

The new reading stack

A world beyond Amazon

Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing

How we evolved to read is a story of one creative species.

Reading Comprehension: How to Retain More of Every Book You Read

It's important to read books, but it's just as important to remember what you read. Read this article to learn three reading comprehension strategies.