Quality Reading: 5 Sources for Long Form Articles

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

–Nicholas Carr

Whether or not Nicholas Carr is right about the Internet making us stupid, we all should try to work some long form, magazine-length articles into our lightweight Twitter-flavored diet. Some topics deserve more than 140 characters, or even 140 words, and our minds can use the exercise.

The following websites offer long form articles from a wide variety of sources:

• Arts & Letters Daily (http://www.aldaily.com)
• The Browser (http://thebrowser.com)
• Give Me Something To Read (http://givemesomethingtoread.com)
• LongForm (http://longform.org)
• LongReads (http://longreads.com)

Since longer articles take longer to read, you may want to save them to read later. Instapaper is great for this purpose. It offers a “Read Later” bookmarklet that lets you quickly save articles to Instapaper for reading later, and you can set Instapaper for automatic delivery to your Kindle, iPhone, or other devices.