The best of what I've read, and audiobooks I've listened to, in 2025. Fiction audiobooks This was the year we "discovered" Bob Mortimer writing, and listened to as much of it as we could. Aside from his biography, we listened to The Hotel Avocado and then The Satsuma Complex. Crime drama.When the Lights Go Out will...

Reading: What, if Anything, is Wrong with Extreme Wealth? Ingrid Robeyns, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 24 June 2019. The opposite of a poverty line: "Limitarianism claims that one can theoretically construct a riches line and that a world in which no one would be above the riches line would be a better...

Reading Thomas Halliday’s book Otherlands, chapter 3. The Atlantic has broken through the Straits of Gibraltar and filled up the west side of the Mediterranean. Now read on. The Maltese-Sicilian sill is a vast natural dam, a barrier between the two deepest basins in the Mediterranean Sea. Across its wide expanse are now...

The Kindle Scribe: it’s a big Kindle you can write on. I’m using it much more than the iPad I was using before for reading, or the Kindle Paperwhite I traded in. Experience so far: The writing experience is much better than the iPad + pencil. I take notes on it, rather than paper. I do miss having colour, though. It’s...

As I’ve said before, I like to cycle the productivity tools I use from time to time. A change is as good as a rest, and all that. Today I’m using two tools for reading, and another two for writing. Reading After many happy years I’ve dropped Pocket for reading. I used it as a primary reading/triage tool, but it’s become...