Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Published 2019 · 83,600 words · about 5 hours at an average pace

How hard is Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World to read?

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World scores 39 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 42 out of 100
Plain, with a few coined terms.
Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
Clear, brisk sentences.
Abstraction: 48 out of 100
A practical philosophy with light theory.
Information density: 50 out of 100
Moderate; case studies and studies.

How Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World is regarded

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World holds a literary regard score of 41 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Cal Newport