Too busy to read?

think Bacon would have applauded Clay Shirky's comment that we suffer not from "information overload" but from "filter failure." Bacon's famous sentence is really a strategy for filtering.

Charles Atlas's "Dynamic Tension" program was to bodybuilding: a common-sense, practical program

Forget for a moment how books should be read: Why should they be read? The first reason--the first sequentially in the story that follows but also the first in order of importance--is that reading books can be intensely pleasurable. Reading is one of the great human delights.