There is much to learn from Alan Jacobs’s brief post about the pleasures of reading, if you don’t take it too seriously. Who apologizes for re-reading? Where is the line between keeping count of books read and surveying what you have read in a year? And of course, if after a long day at the office and sharing some evening time with the family the only way to get to a book is to crack it open at 10pm while lying in bed and at least try to read, who is Jacobs (and who am I) to judge? We can’t all be humanities professors.