01 / The balance
What tips the scale?
Add up to five copies of any book to either pan. Here, a word is a unit of weight. No heavy lifting required.
Books on the brassWORD COUNTS · NOT PHYSICAL MASS
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The pans are waiting.Add a book to begin.
02 / A second way to weigh them
Turn words into evenings.
Set a comfortable daily reading budget. Watch the books stretch or shrink into days, with no suggestion that reading a theology classic should become a speedrun.
One “day” here means your chosen number of words read. The estimate excludes reflection, study and rereading.
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