Saturday, February 2, 2013

The essential must-read guide on how to read all those must-reads | Oliver Burkeman

We are entering a golden age of online long-form fiction. But how a player is supposed to keep up?

I note, with a mixture of excitement and apprehension that section Conor Friedersdorf author has published its annual list of the best non-fiction available online: 102 Stories of fiction dramatically since 2012. Emotion, of course, because this is a list of 102 spectacular romantic stories, most of which I have not read, and I am a voracious consumer of narrative fiction well. And feel because - well, for the same reason. A list of 102 romantic stories spectacular. How the hell am I supposed to find time to read?

This feeling is more familiar. Despite the predictions of some gurus of new media on the "end of the article as the atomic unit of news," it seems, on the contrary, be entering a golden age of the article - including more exciting of all, the long version deeply studied section. It is difficult to know how durable it is, given the wave of business models in the media. But in the meantime, this development has a face very different stress inducing - for me, anyway - to know what to read and when. Welcome - although to his credit, do not use the term Friedersdorf -. Until the time of "must-read"

above, allowing us to customize what we get, filtering relevance. Social media is supposed to do better, to trust my contact networks Facebook and Twitter, I naturally came to focus on the things recommended by people whose tastes I trust. The result could be a sounding board - but at least I did not drown

However, as Carr points out, the opposite happened. Thank you to the wealth of information available online, good filters simply means an endless supply of purified interest and relevance, linking me to articles which, in ancient times, were blissfully unaware. Print log, because it must rely on a wide range of readers, inevitably affect any player gives a mosaic of interesting stories to manage, uninteresting and boring really. However, Twitter is a pipe connecting interesting reading. So the browser. Stellar also. Similarly, Dave Pell NextDraft bulletin, which really should subscribe, but I'll just say that large items worthy of your time.



My solution to this, to this day, is a technical and very imperfect, but it helps a little. With Evernote installed on my computer, the iPhone and the phone, I can drop a great site with a single click, it is automatically synchronized with the other two devices. Then, in the boring moments when otherwise affect any reading material in sight - take public transport, waiting for a friend - I have access to the things you really want to read instead. Still too many of them, of course. But it is a start.
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