What Peter reads

Since I was in primary school, I've read a lot, although unlike then, I rarely read on paper these days. Almost everything I read today is online or on my Kindle app, which are far more convenient than paper for most things.

However, the material I read hasn't changed so much. Actually, now that I think about it, there have been some significant changes to the type of material, if not the quantity. When I was in high school and at university, I read a lot of fiction and science. These days i still read the fiction, although not so much recently, but my non-fiction reading is broader than before. I browse at least three newspapers every day, usually with my morning coffee, when I read the BBC News, the Bangkok Post, The New York Times, and usually also Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. Obviously I don't read every story in these publications. I quickly look at the front page, which usually has one or two stories I do want to read, and then I go to the sections that interest me, usually local politics, but also science, technology, and opinions.

Books? The most recent books I've read were not very serious: a John Grisham legal thriller, and the book versions of the NetFlix series Dexter, which was fun. In non-fiction, I've recently read the excellent series of three books by historian Yuval Noah Harari, who takes from 13.5 billion years ago into the possible futures of our likely short-lived species. And right now I'm reading a recent work on the weirdness of quantum mechanics.