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Practical guides on screen time, focus, doomscrolling and reading more — each one ends with how to run it using Block&Read.

App Blocker

Why App Blockers Fail (and the One Mechanic That Works)

Restriction creates a void, and the void loses to boredom. Replacement wins — here's the design that sticks.

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Screen Time

How to Reduce Screen Time Without Deleting Your Apps

Deletion fails by Friday. Friction that pays you back is the plan you'll still be running in three months.

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Focus

How to Focus When Your Phone Is the Most Interesting Thing in the Room

Focus is an economy: raise the price of distraction until your work is the cheaper option.

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EPUB Reader

A Free EPUB Reader for iPhone That Also Blocks Your Apps

Every reader loses to the feed three icons away. This one intercepts it.

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Reading

How to Read More Books With the Time You Already Have

Thirty minutes a day is twenty books a year — and the minutes are hiding in your screen time.

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Book

Can't Finish a Book Anymore? Rebuild Your Attention Span

Deep reading is a trained skill. The feed untrained it; five pages a day trains it back.

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Habit

How to Build a Daily Reading Habit That Sticks

Cue, routine, reward — built on the strongest trigger you own: reaching for your phone.

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Distraction

How to Stop Doomscrolling (Without Throwing Your Phone Away)

The feed is a slot machine. Swap the payout for pages and let the urge do the work.

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Block Apps

How to Block Apps on iPhone — and Keep Them Blocked

Screen Time, Focus modes and their escape hatches — plus the setup where reading is the only key.

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Classics

75,000+ Free Classic Books: Where to Start

The public domain is the best free library ever assembled. A map for your first ten books, in English y español.

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Study

How to Study Without Your Phone Pulling You Away

Pre-commit before the hard paragraph hits — and make your course reading the key to your breaks.

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