Too Many Books (Is Never Enough)

I love my Kindle. I don’t feel great about that, because Amazon is the devil. But being able to jump on a plane with hundreds of books in a small tablet with a consistently readable font is amazing, and it’s wired into my note-taking flow.

One downside, if you can call it that, is that it’s easy to be reading several books at once, and just flit between them like a reading social butterfly. I exploit that weakness of the system to a painful extent.

Here’s what I’m in the middle of on my Kindle at the moment, and I’m probably forgetting a couple:

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • How To Lose A Country
  • Hope in the Dark
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Code of the Woosters
  • Surprised by God
  • Atlas of AI
  • Plato - A Very Short Introduction
  • We Need Your Art
  • Talk
  • The Well-Educated Mind

Clearly, I need to focus.


Date
July 6, 2025