I read very few books in the late 2010s, while consuming massive quantities of articles and posts. That bothered me. A few years ago, I learned that book-reading is a skill, different from reading articles and certainly very different from reading social media posts. I retaught that skill to myself. Now I’m up to about a dozen books a year and I can live with that.

I generally read two books at once. I like to do one fiction and one non-fiction.

When I was a teen-ager, I read five books a week. I had more free time then.