Reading Generation Dread, at your own pace

Thanks for being a paid member of The Planet You Save May Be Your Own. In 2022, you helped me research, report and write 54 emails and tens of thousands of words to hundreds of subscribers, as well as develop the Zero Cities guide. As 2023 starts, I’m hoping to expand this even further - and paid members are are a huge part of that.

As I mentioned last month, I’m changing up how I thank you for making The Planet You Save newsletter possible.

Fellow newsletter writer Colleen Hagerty introduced me last month to using the free app Threadable as a virtual book club for her readers. It’s designed to be low commitment: I choose a short excerpt from a book, share my own highlights, thoughts and questions in the margin.

Unlike most book clubs, there’s no set time to discuss or awkward conversation because you didn’t read this month’s selection yet. While Threadable can be used for just about any book, most of them can only be done in excerpts – so the selections will be based on a chapter or two. Just read at your leisure and share as much or as little as you want. The only downside at the moment is that the app is only available for iOS (aka, iPhones and the like).