Pinker also includes a number of cartoons and, more importantly, sentence diagrams and other visuals, and these come across much better on iPad than on my Kindle Paperwhite. The layout of the book is stylish, and that’s something that often gets lost on Kindle. However, I happened to buy The Sense of Style on Apple Books soon after it came out in 2014, so I reread it on my iPad, which turned out to have some advantages. As much as I love print books (and I still buy and borrow plenty of them), I prefer reading my weekly craft books on Kindle so I can easily reference my notes or search the books from my computer. I also, just by happenstance, read this week’s book – Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century – in a different format than I usually do. But it’s also true that occasionally shuffling your routine can wake you up. Having a regular schedule that incorporates time for writing is important, and I think it’s also true that you can train your brain to be productive at specific times (my brain starts tinkering away at this newsletter on Friday mornings, whether or not I’m sitting at my keyboard). My wrists have missed my split keyboard and vertical mouse, but otherwise the change has given me a welcome jolt of energy. How did the writing go this week? My schedule has been off-kilter this week (for good reasons this time, not pneumonia!), and I’ve been writing and working in a lot of new spots.
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