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Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#32http://givemesomethingtoread.com features some of the most saved articles on Instapaper. They're usually pretty good.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#33Art & Letters Daily : http://www.aldaily.com/
ALD is a new one for me, bookmarked. I love that it seems generally sophisticated -- anybody have similar gems to this?
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#34Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#35Art & Letters Daily : http://www.aldaily.com/
Long-time reader. One of my favorite things about it is that it presents articles and editorials written from everywhere on the political spectrum, from the soppily liberal (the Guardian) to the frothingly conservative (City Journal).
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#36Twitter has replaced Google Reader for me.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#37I go to a major chain bookstore, the bigger the better. I look around for something really good, when I find something I like I then take the laptop out of my bag and I look up the book at Amazon. Quite often one of Amazons recommendations ends up being more interesting to me, so at that point I'll use my mobile to call a smaller, independent bookstore and special order the book. In the several days it takes to arriv…
Why don't you buy it from the bookstore you're already in?
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#38I go to a major chain bookstore, the bigger the better. I look around for something really good, when I find something I like I then take the laptop out of my bag and I look up the book at Amazon. Quite often one of Amazons recommendations ends up being more interesting to me, so at that point I'll use my mobile to call a smaller, independent bookstore and special order the book. In the several days it takes to arriv…
Why don't you buy it from the bookstore you're already in?
Because I have a soft spot in my heart for independent bookstores.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#39A subscription to The Economist is great for having some printed material to read in the head.
And it's cheap for students.
Re: Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
#40A subscription to paper version of WSJ is the best $100/year you'll spend. The content is authoritative, exceptionally well researched and complete. The opinion side of things is pleasantly conservative.
As much as I like the WSJ, I can't stand the form-factor of newspapers. They're so awkwardly large that you can't read them on a bus/train or almost anywhere else comfortably... not to mention the ink smudging on fingers and anything else it rubs up against. I'd go for an online or Kindle (do they have that?) subscription.
The Economist has a more managable form-factor