I read a lot. When I’m on the bus, when I’m traveling, when I’m hanging out with a sleeping baby, when I’ve got a few minutes spare, whenever. I still read print books, but because I do a lot of my reading in low-light situations, lately I’ve been reading more and more in my iPad.
For that, I’ve been using a combination of feedly (as my rss feed reader), Pocket (as my collector of longer pieces), and iBooks (for eBooks) and Adobe Reader (for PDFs) to read. I’ve realized that I read a lot of stuff from around the web—mostly long form journalism—and want to have a place where I keep track of it and share it out both for others and for myself.
So I’m going to try something new here. Each week, on Sunday evening, I’ll post a list of the best things I read during the previous week.
Here’s my first list: