
Summer Reading Lists: How to Build One You'll Finish
A seasonal stack of beach reads, classics and book-club picks is easy to make and easier to abandon. The fix is smaller than you think.
The practice of reading digitally: annotation and highlight systems, note export, comprehension and retention on screens, night reading, finishing rates and habits that hold through a busy period. Evidence is cited where research exists. For readers who want to read more and remember it.

A seasonal stack of beach reads, classics and book-club picks is easy to make and easier to abandon. The fix is smaller than you think.

Reading Rainbow ran on PBS for more than two decades and won a Peabody and 26 Emmys. Here is how the show built a love of reading, and why its method still works.

You do not need a spare room to build a reading nook. Window seats, snug chairs, good light, and soft layers can turn even a small corner into your favorite seat.

A practical guide to recruiting members, running discussions people actually attend, and keeping the snacks coming.

Yes — every current Kindle can borrow library e-books through Libby's "send to Kindle" delivery in the United States, with one setup step and one regional catch that decides everything.

Yes, through Libby or your library's OverDrive site — here's exactly how the loan gets from the library to the device, and where the U.S.-only limit kicks in.

How to share ebooks with your family: Amazon Household, Google and Apple family libraries, kids' profiles, and the license limits behind them.

How to set reading goals you actually hit: minutes over book counts, seasonal targets derived from real data, and a same-day reset after a miss.

How to finish long books without losing momentum: daily quotas, visible checkpoints, device switching by sync, and permission to quit the wrong ones.

How to export highlights from ebooks and get notes out of Kindle, Kobo, and reading apps into Notion, Obsidian, or plain files you own.