All because I read a book called You: Staying Young, which advises taking large doses of calcium citrate two or three times a day.
When I read a Kindle book on my tablet, I often notice how poor the actual content design tends to be, ignoring the rich controls and interactive possibilities that you get in a digital format.
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This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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And I don't have to read a book to realize what I'm up against (unintelligible).
During my time on staff with Neighborhood, I was asked to read a book called With Justice for All by Dr. John Perkins.
In response to their writing I decided to randomly place each book I read on an A-Z London and draw a line around it.
They were the first Lamb I ever read, and I'm ashamed to say I only bought the book because I'd read elsewhere that a man named Lamb had visited his friend Leigh Hunt, in prison for libeling the Prince of Wales.
Example: Last Christmas my mother said she read a good book and tomorrow I will read the book she recommended.
Unless I know the author personally, I won't read a business book.
I've just read a fascinating book about one of the big issues in America which divides the US and most puzzles us British: America's gun laws.
Among the other books that suit my summer taste for page-turning history include No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand and, a book I recently read about the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham.
More recently, Amazon told me I downloaded a book too many times and therefore couldn't read it on a new device, even though it was no longer on the old ones.
Take for example an e-mail I received from a California firefighter who read my book about the optimism bias.
"I can access every book I want to read very quickly, " says Eperence Uwera, a 13-year-old Rwandan refugee at the Humble School.
So I really do travel with a book to read, a netbook and a wallet.
On one particular Sunday I was feeling a bit sorry for myself, and my situation, so I decided to skip the Sunday meeting and instead read a book.
When I read this great book by Matthew Scully, who is a former Bush speechwriter.
This book is a good read (though I disagree with the professor about man-made threats).
You can read the book in 30 minutes, as I did on a flight from Washington, D.
Then, out of a sense of duty, I forced myself to read the book on the physical Kindle 2.
In many ways, those things rankle me more now than they did when I first read the book in the third grade (and made a mean shoebox diorama to boot).
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And now, thanks to instant-reading technology, you don't even need to wait 15 seconds to start up the device: "I press, I read, it's instant... it's a book!"
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Read more in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a book I strongly recommend.
After writing the above, however, I read the final thirty pages of Fisher's amazing book and collided with a wall of incomprehension, an opacity of averages.
Before going on, I should point out, in the interests of full disclosure, that we share a publisher - although I have never met David Hicks, nor read his book.
Why can I read this book on one eBook reader and not another when it costs the same as a physical book?
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Having read every eyewitness account of what happened there in 1775 that I could find when writing a book about America's war of independence, I would argue that there is pretty good evidence that the locals fired first - albeit when the British redcoats were running towards them, intent upon assault.
It is an occupational hazard of my life as a book cover designer to almost never be able to read the books that I am covering.
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