Interesting and humorous article by Anthony Lane in the New Yorker about the book summary app Blinkist: Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?. We’re reading fewer books as a society. Our ever-fascinating smart phones aren’t helping the cause:

The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of addictive properties, it might as well be stuffed with meth.

— Anthony Lane

I’m a fan of watching the TED Talk before I decide to tackle a non-fiction book, but reading a 20-minute book summary of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? No, no, no, no.