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Name the reading task in the morning
One of your three tasks is the reading, written down with a size: ten pages, one chapter, fifteen minutes. A decision made in advance beats willpower spent at night.
It is not a contest between equals
why the evening goes this way
You sit down to read and stand up having scrolledThe book was open. Somewhere in the first few pages the thoughts drifted, the phone was already in the other hand, and forty minutes went somewhere you cannot reconstruct.
Reading asks for a running start; the feed does notA novel needs a few pages before it holds you. An app holds you on contact. On a tired Tuesday that difference decides everything.
By the time you put the phone down, there is nothing leftThe reading was not refused. It was postponed until eleven forty, and at eleven forty the honest answer is sleep.
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What the hundred days usually look like
before you sign up
Reasonable questions
Do I have to give up my phone?
No. There is no screen-time rule and nothing to install. The only daily obligation is three tasks written in the morning and a report at night.
Is the report on the phone?
Yes, that is where most people write it. The device is not the enemy; the default is.
Will this fix my attention span?
We make no claim about attention, memory or reading speed. What the programme changes is whether the reading happens on an ordinary evening.
What if I read on a screen?
Kindle, phone app, paper, audio — it counts the same. You decide what the reading task means and you report against it.
What does it cost?
Pricing is set when the next group opens. This page takes an email and nothing else.
how it runs
Three tasks in the morning, one report at night
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Report before the phone gets the last word
Two lines at the end of the day: what happened, what did not. Writing it is short, and it is the part that makes tomorrow different.
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Read where the room is reading
Other people posting their evenings at the same hour. The feed you check becomes one full of people who read tonight.
the shape of it
What the hundred days usually look like
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Loud and effortful. The reading task keeps sliding to the end of the evening until you learn to put it earlier.
Day 1–10
Loud and effortful. The reading task keeps sliding to the end of the evening until you learn to put it earlier.
Day 30
A first week where the phone wins every night. You log it honestly and the week ends without becoming a month.
Day 100
Reading has a slot in the evening that it did not have in week one, and a hundred reports showing how it got there.
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Where the pages get read
Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of reading.
Other readers describe the same evening
where this comes from
From an essay on getting out of a slump: “Oh, I'd pick up a book, only to find my thoughts wandering and soon I'd be aimlessly scrolling Instagram or Twitter instead of reading.”
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29 days
Fable reports an average reading streak of 29 days across its app, up threefold year on year. The figure is self-reported by a company that sells social reading, and it is worth exactly that — but daily counting visibly moves behaviour.
sourceEvery number here is quoted from the source next to it, with its origin named. We invent none.
One evening at a time, for a hundred of them
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- A reading task written before the evening arrives
- A nightly report that takes two lines
- A hundred days with people reporting at the same hour
We write once, when the next hundred days are scheduled.
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