---
title: Subway reading
url: https://www.grahambrooks.com/post/2009-12-13-subway-reading/
date: 2009-12-13T00:00:00+00:00
author: Graham Brooks
tags:
- Writing
- Agile
---

# Subway reading

Over the last month I have been reading <a href="http://pragprog.com/titles/snfocus/pomodoro-technique-illustrated">Prmodoro Technique Illustrated</a> a fascinating book detailing a technique to apply real focus to problem solving and work in general. One problem I have with almost any kind of reading is finding the time to actually read. But this book is nicely split up into bite-sized chapters which can be read on short journeys. I have taken to downloading books to Stanza an iPhone application which accepts epub format documents. The transfer is a little fiddly but once a URL to the book download is entered Stanza takes care of the download.

This reading method is working well for me at the moment. I just can't travel with a large collection of books weighing me down. But I always have my phone with me for a little ad-hoc reading.
