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A Reading Life

2005 to 2026  ·  16,431 articles held in one index  ·  as of 6 October 2026

Articles

20052010201520202026
367.5 130.5 62.7 articles read per quarter
words, cumulative 17.5M
articles read16,431over 22 years and three ways of saving
words17.5M17,462,926 in allreading time1,223 hrsat 238 words a minutebusiest year20112,675 articles, 2.5M wordsthe 2012 seam−49%2,675 articles in 2011, 1,373 in 2012

Weeks

20052010201520202026
12.1 9.9 5.8 weeks carrying a synthesis
articles covered, cumulative 16,417
weekly syntheses831one page per ISO week, written on-device
longest streak358weeks unbroken, Aug 2007 to Jun 2014quietest year20213 weeks, 3 articles, 5,513 wordsdeep dives2922 year rollups, 7 facetsthis week17articles in 2026-W39, 32,782 words, on Superintelligence

Sources

20052010201520202026
6.6 38.2 43.7 distinct sources per quarter
sources, cumulative 1,185
distinct sources1,185counted over the 5,953 articles that kept a link
carries a link36%5,953 of 16,431 articlesmost read1,029nytimes.com, 17% of linked readinghow it was saved
  • Legacy files10,478
  • Instapaper5,630
  • Matter322
1 article unattributedtop publications
  • nytimes.com1,029
  • businessinsider.com488
  • kurzweilai.net318
  • medium.com257
  • yahoonewsdigest-us.tumblr.com167

Subjects

20052010201520202026
172.9 88.4 45.9 vocabulary entries in use per quarter
AI share, four quarters 25.9%
artificial intelligence14.9%of tagged reading since 2018; it was 0.7% before 2012
tagged80.6%13,251 of 16,431 articlesvocabulary248curated entries, every one in usecommonest subjects
  • Social Media1,120
  • Mobile Devices937
  • Business Strategy882
  • Venture Capital806
  • Entrepreneurship794
what moved
  • Artificial Intelligence+14.2
  • Influenza Pandemics+7.3
  • Social Media−5.4
  • Mobile Devices−5.9
points of share, pre-2012 against 2018 on

How to read the dates. This archive is two archives wearing one schema. The 10,478 legacy files carry no links and no read events: their date is the publication date parsed out of a filename, so a quarter before 2012 says when the writing appeared, not when it was read. The 5,952 Instapaper and Matter articles from 2012 on carry real save and archive dates. Two thirds of the corpus, 10,665 articles, is dated by that proxy. Every strip and step runs on one shared axis of quarters from 2005 Q1 to 2026 Q3, and the amber lines are the average of each era, annotated with their value. There is no time of day anywhere in this archive, so nothing here is drawn by hour.