Today Ethan Marcotte‘s awesome book Responsive Web Design was released. To say it was a big day for people who build websites would be an understatement. When I hit the site for the book today, A Book Apart, I noticed it loaded sans CSS the first time, and then a refresh delivered me a broken page. It was fixed shortly thereafter – and that’s definitely a great problem to have.
Upon digging into it and the characters behind it, I learned about Mandy Brown and her site A Working Library. This article here on the Way of Reading has drawn me in, because it speaks to the art and act of reading. Developing software for struggling readers occupies by work days, and the topic of reading is very close to my essential self.
I’ve been trying to spend at least an hour reading the printed page a day lately. One of the perks of working at Reading Plus is I have my own account to use the program, and over the course of a year I’ve increased my reading speed considerably.
From the site, I love this ‘aphorism’:
Read voraciously, many books at a time. Only then will you hear the conversation taking place among them.
Right now I’m reading 3 books, 2 in e-format (on O’Reilly Safari online) and 1 on the printed page, Incognito by David Eagleman. The book is about neuroscience, and so I have to cut down my reading rate considerably, and I’m forced to reread sentences when the concepts are ‘deep’.
I’m going to take Brown’s advice and have a pen in hand when I read. And let’s see what happens.
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