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 title: Go Read a Book
 date: 2026-01-24 23:41:00
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There's a lot of shitty news happening lately, and I've been having
trouble holding space for it all.

I've noticed that my 2020-doomscrolling habit has started to ramp
back up, so I built a Google Chrome extension (with a little help
from Gemini) that automatically redirects my browser to a Kindle
book in my library whenever I try to go to a site that I think is
hurting my mental health:

Image: http://flower.codes/assets/img/posts/go-read-a-book.png

It's been a nice, gentle reminder that following the news is one
thing, but drowning myself in it is another thing entirely. Instead
of drinking from the firehose of badness, I can stay up to date
with a few select, timely sources, and then redirect myself to
something more productive when I try to get another hit, like
reading a relevant history book to better understand the current
cultural and political moment.

This is a thing I built for me, but I thought I'd share in case
anyone else is in the same boat. I've added no analytics, no data
collection, no monetization, no account creation, or anything else.

Just a simple, single-purpose browser extension.

You can find it on the Chrome Web Store here if you're interested:
Go Read a Book - Chrome Web Store [0]

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[0]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-read-a-book/ecafldaielmlpopapfgmephmjkkphlmi
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