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Reading and writing are one craft pointed in two directions. This piece looks at what reading gives your writing, what it does not give, and

Nancy Pearl's 50-page rule gives readers a fair window to judge a book before it consumes months of time and motivation. Backed by Daniel Pe

A reading slump is the state where reading stops and will not restart — and contrary to popular belief, there is no established research or

Tsundoku is buying books and letting them pile up unread; the antilibrary is choosing to see that pile as capital rather than shame. This ar

The 50-page rule rests on three hidden assumptions, and when any of them fails the rule fails with it: reference books, books read for work,

A "page" does not exist in an audiobook, and it is a synthetic number on an e-reader. This article translates the 50-page rule into the two

DNF is a sporting term that has migrated into reading: "did not finish." This article explains why the world's largest book-tracking site st

The page 99 test has been attributed to Ford Madox Ford for years, but the sentence is William H. Gass's and appears nowhere in Ford's own w

Nancy Pearl, the American librarian behind what the web now calls the 50-page rule, improvised it live on the radio — it never appeared in h

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