Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Page count varies by edition; not verified here.
A stranded-scientist mystery told in punchy problem-solving chapters; every scene asks a question the next scene answers.
Finish more. Feel less bad.
A journal for people who love books and lose fights with them. We test reading tools with a stopwatch and a rubric, write methods that include permission, and keep shelves of books that hold on.
17 tools scored · 8 methods written · 26 books shelved
Start here
The method
How to read with ADHD →
The whole method: change the format, shrink the session, quit early, pick grabby books, externalize memory.
The argument
Do audiobooks count? (Yes.) →
What comprehension research actually shows, and why the question is the problem.
The toolkit
Every tool, scored →
Text-to-speech, e-readers, audiobook services, read-it-later apps, trackers.
Newest reviews
Readwise Reader
SHELF ITThe power read-it-later: saves everything, reads everything aloud, resurfaces your highlights on schedule.
80/100 · $$ · Time to First Page: Not yet measured
Desk review · provisional
Kobo Libra
SHELF ITThe reader's reader: library borrowing built in, fewer store hooks, buttons that turn pages.
80/100 · $$$ one-time · Time to First Page: Not yet measured
Desk review · provisional
Speechify
BORROW FIRSTThe famous TTS: strong voices, cross-platform capture, the hardest sell in the category.
72/100 · $$$ · Time to First Page: Not yet measured
Desk review · provisional
Boox Palma
BORROW FIRSTA phone-shaped e-ink device: the reading of a Kindle in the pocket-reach of a phone.
72/100 · $$$$ one-time · Time to First Page: Not yet measured
Desk review · provisional
The shelves
Best books about ADHD →
Driven to Distraction
Edward Hallowell & John Ratey
Page count varies by edition; not verified here.
The classic first book: diagnosis-era essential, warm, story-driven.
Who it's for: The newly diagnosed, or the still deciding.
Short books and novellas →
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Page count varies by edition; not verified here.
A labyrinth, a gentle narrator, a mystery that resolves; wonder in an afternoon-sized package.
Every tool here is scored against a published rubric where distraction surface counts most, because the tool's job is getting out of the way. Verdicts are dated, prices are rechecked, and the flag next to every score tells you how deep the testing went. How we test →