Your Letters
Regarding the article ? Did anyone else find their reading speed accelerating towards the bottom? Or, like me, while thinking about reading faster, realising you'd been reading but not taking in the last few paragraphs, but refusing to 'backskip'?
Sara, Bristol, UK
I once read in one year. To be fair, I was single, unemployed and communicatively challenged (i.e. without net access). Nowadays I average 40 books a year (full-time job, relationship and all that). One hundred books in 100 days? I'd either have to be on a deserted island (with meals pre-prepared) or be reading nothing but utter trash.
Karina, Glasgow, UK
Regarding the recent controversy - perhaps these sites should be renamed social NOTworking?
Tom Calvert, Northiam, UK
I think you are being unfair to the Guardian. It is 18 months since it last increased its cover price. CPI is an innapropiate measure of inflation for anything other than interest rate setting and so you should use the RPI (currently at 4.8%). Compounding this we see that 7.3% of the price change is given by inflation and so only a 7% rise in other areas is required, which is easily covered by the increse in entries in the "corrections and clarifications" section.
Ian, Winchester, UK
Railway travel advice. Travelling out of London on Friday at 18:45, standing by the carraige door on a very crowded train. On stopping at Reading a woman passenger asked for help with a bag while boarding. The comment by the "railway operative" of "...don't travel on a Friday.." wasn't particularly helpful. But at least it gave the rest of us something to talk about as we stood for the rest of the journey.
Mark, Swindon
Keith, (Friday's letters) regarding "Daft burglar writes name on wall", wouldn't it be more interesting to write "Paper Monitor was here"? Then, to find out PM's true identity, we simply check who has been hauled up before the beak.
Leif, Aylesbury, Bucks