Reading long texts by rss one day at a time

I’m not sure whether it’s just that I have fewer serious blocks of undistrubed time that I can use to read recreationally these days (after I grind through business magazines, emails and the “must read” business books) or I’m just having a difficult time getting to the real reading I’ve set for myself this year goal-wise. Either way, Herodotus, Father of History, for instance, sits neglected on my night table merely for the fact I can rarely keep my eyes open by the time I get into bed.

So, I thought this was a creative solution to the problem :

Read one page a day via your daily rss feeds.

Basically, the provider of this feed wanted to get through the entirety of the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci as provided by the amazing Project Gutenburg (sadly, though… without the pictures which would have been so wicked to also get in the rss feed.

Admittedly, this is definitely a geek driven solution to the attention scarcity problem but I’m going to try it out anyway and let you know how it goes. I’ll be using my favourite reader on the Mac, Vienna.

In fact, I’m liking this idea so much that if it works well, I might try and apply the same solution to the Herodotus lying largely abandoned next to the alarm clock.