10 Apps & Sites That Bring Back the Joy of Reading

10. Longreads

Longreads started out as a Twitter account operated by Mark Armstrong, the former director of content at a New York-based local directory site called Bundle. For more than a year, Armstrong tweeted about the best long-form articles he was finding on the Web; in the process, he popularized the hashtag #longreads, which many publications now use as a signal to readers that they’ve published something meaty.

Armstrong eventually started a Tumblr blog, a weekly e-mail newsletter, and a standalone website to feature the articles he was finding. Like Longform.org or Give Me Something to Read, the Longreads site features long-form writing from across the Web; it allows one-click saving to Read It Later and Instapaper. But one unique feature is the searchable archive, which comes with a filter that lets you find something that suits your available time. Got half an hour to kill? Pick the “30-45 minutes (3,750-7,500 words)” filter.

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Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/