Ten pages with your morning coffee beats a heroic Sunday binge — a gentle system for daily reading.
Forget the fifty-books-a-year challenge. Ten pages with your morning coffee beats a heroic Sunday binge every time. Start with a book you genuinely want — not the one you think you should want — and keep it where your phone used to sit.
Our favourite trick: the “next-ten” rule. When a chapter ends, read ten more pages. Most nights you'll keep going; on the nights you don't, you've still moved forward.
Pair the habit with a shelf that rewards you: a mystery for weekdays, something gentle for Sundays, and one wild card from the staff picks table. Small, steady pages compound into a reading life.
