BJ Novak wishes he could read in an airplane chair at home, and Padma Lakshmi once listened to Giovanni’s Room while weight-training.

Reading time on Kindle can be tracked through the Kindle Reading Insights program. Besides reading time, it also offers other insights about your overall reading habits, including the total read books ...

A smarter way to keep your reading list organized. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Reading Time for iPhone and iPad lets you build a library of books, then tracks your progress as you read. It ...

Some speed-reading advocates claim that with proper training (outlined in many popular books and YouTube videos) or the use ...

Books are heavy, and carrying many of them is harder. The solution to this is e-reading. Devices like Kindle, Nook, and Kobo are all the rage for digital readers worldwide. But with this digital ...

If reading is a recent innovation, then reading on screens is brand new, and it has brought further challenges for our brains. A number of research studies strongly suggest that when we read text on a ...

Reading works on the mind in ways that few other activities can. Each page requires focus on words and their meaning, which strengthens the brain like steady training builds muscle. Stories or ...

Children who start to read for fun early in life get better test scores by the time they reach adolescence, according to a new study. Reading for pleasure by the age of nine is also linked to better ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...