The Best Articles in Books

The most useful articles and videos in Books from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Books Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Books by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. How to make more time to read
  2. I learned a system for remembering everything
  3. How reading fiction can make you a better person
  4. Science fiction books that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy
  5. How to Choose Your Next Book

Videos

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Short Articles

Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Books—all under 10 minutes.

Long Articles

These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Books.

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Thought Leaders

We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Books, including:

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Strand Book Store

Legendary home of 18 miles of new, used & rare books since 1927. Located at Union Square and UWS.📚 Shop online at http://strandbooks.com📕

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Guardian Books

News, reviews and author interviews plus tweets from the @Guardian and Observer books team. Support the Guardian today: http://support.theguardian.com

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Powell's Books

The legendary independent bookstore.

Publications

We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Books, including:

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Literary Hub

A daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.

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Ryan Holiday

NYT Bestselling Author of The Obstacle Is The Way & more @DailyStoic @DailyDadEmail Sign up for The Wealthy Stoic:

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The Baffler

Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.

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Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Picking only a handful of links means focusing on what’s relevant and useful. We favor timeless pieces—links with long shelf-lives, articles that are still relevant one month, one year, or even ten years from now. These lists of the best resources on any topic are the result of years of careful curation.

How does Refind curate?

It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:

  1. We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
  2. In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
  3. Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
  4. Our community of active users gets the most relevant links every day, tailored to their interests. They provide feedback via implicit and explicit signals: open, read, listen, share, mark as read, read later, «More/less like this», etc.
  5. Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
  6. In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.

The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.

How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?

We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.

How many sources does Refind monitor?

We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.

Which sources does Refind monitor in Books?

We monitor hundreds of sources in Books, including Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ryan Holiday, London Review of Books, The Baffler, and many more.

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