This is interesting.

When reading is bad for you, by Megan Tough at Flying Solo.

Reading has an insidious way of filling all the cracks in our day. If we are reading, we can tell ourselves that we are actually working. In fact, there’s a good chance we are simply wasting time.

I guess it depends who exactly needs to be reading, and what it is they are reading. Extensive reading is not absolutely necessary for everyone.

A lot of my ideas, especially for my links posts, are as a result of reading though.

But then again that is largely online reading. I do have sections of last weekend’s newspaper (and this is Friday) that are still unread, plus a couple of magazines in the lounge untouched in months. As for books? Well, let’s not go there…

For me the best way to be reading, and keep on top of it all, most of the time anyway, is by way of RSS subscriptions and using Technorati favourites to keep tabs on blogs that I like or find useful.

Mind you it seems that strategy has it drawbacks.

And if you are in the blogosphere, you are well acquainted with the inviting nature of other people’s blogs on topics that interest you. Before you know it you are scanning 20 blogs per week!

Only 20? I’d have thought 200 would be more like a problem… ;)