why it does not happen
The time is not missing in one piece
- The free hour never arrives intactIt gets divided into eight-minute fragments by other people's needs, and a fragment does not feel like enough to open a book in.
- By the time it is quiet, so are youThe moment the house settles is also the moment the day's last energy goes. Reading loses to lying down, reliably.
- Your own projects are last in the queueEverything with a person attached to it outranks the book. Reading has no one asking about it, so it stays permanently deferrable.
What the hundred days usually look like
before you sign up
Reasonable questions
How much time does the programme itself take?
A couple of minutes for the morning tasks and a couple for the report. The reading takes as long as you decided it would take.
Are there calls I have to attend?
No live sessions to schedule around. The whole thing is written, which is why it works at odd hours.
Can reading to my children count?
If that is the task you wrote, yes. You define what the reading task is and report against your own definition.
What if I miss several days in a row?
You write it down and continue. The programme counts the days you showed up, not an unbroken run.
Will this teach me to read faster?
No. We make no claim about speed, memory or comprehension. The only thing on offer is the daily structure and the group.
how it runs
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
the shape of it
What the hundred days usually look like
Learning where the fragments are: the twenty minutes before the school run, the wait in the car, the first ten minutes in bed.
Learning where the fragments are: the twenty minutes before the school run, the wait in the car, the first ten minutes in bed.
A week goes badly — illness, work, a broken routine. You log the small days and the habit survives the week.
Reading has a place inside a full household. A hundred reports show how many of those evenings were short and how little that mattered.
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Where the pages get read
Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of reading.
where this comes from
The buyers of reading programmes are already time-poor
- 82%
- Nineteen per cent of American adults account for 82% of all the reading done in the country, on a YouGov poll reported by Literary Hub. Heavy readers are a small group, and busy people who want in have to make time rather than find it. source
- $10/mo
- A long-running online reading membership charges $10 a month for curated picks, forums and monthly webinars. Paying for company around reading is normal; what that model does not carry is a daily task and a report. source
Figures are quoted from the linked pages with their origin named, not estimated by us.
A hundred days built for short evenings
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- Tasks written in the morning, sized for a real evening
- A two-line report at whatever hour the day ends
- A hundred days with other adults short on time
One email when the next group starts. We do not write otherwise.
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