You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and book devour, Mallory O'Mara.

And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

An amateur surgeon.

Y'all, I tried to get a splitter out of Mallory's leg. I dug in her leg for hours, hours. And that's what true podcasting. And when I say splinter, this was like almost two, a piece of wood, almost two inches long. I can't like explain to people how big this splinter was. How deep in my leg it was. It's this wild, like, people are like, it's just a splinter.

I'm like, no.

No.

Mallory had a splinter in her leg that was like an half inch long and we spent an entire

even trying to get it out. One inch and a half at least. It's wild. It's wild. And I did not successfully get it out. and she still has a splinter under leg,

which everyone's going to be very concerned about Mallory,

so make sure we update them.

I'm okay,

but it was pretty,

Brea was there with a little,

with a book light and Twitter. or like, which everyone's going to be very concerned about Mallory. So make sure we update them. I'm okay. But it was pretty,

Bria was there with a little, with a booklight and tweezers and needles. It was like the scene. Wow, we should do a shout out for that book light for as a, as a, it was like, you know that scene in Stephen King's the stand where they're like doing emergency surgery by a lantern? and Like five of Hollywood's best horror filmmakers are laying around my, sitting around my leg. But yeah, if you ever, if you're in a pinch, Brea Grant is a good person to have an emergency. I'm actually, I'm great in an emergency. I go, I go zen. I go completely zen. Truly. Yeah, it was pretty, pretty impressive. Brea was on it. I'm just so mad that I couldn't get it out because I just was like, I watched video on YouTube. It was the biggest splinter I've ever seen anybody have. I felt like I'd be able to get an out. I don't know. Well, this week we're not talking about amateur surgery. We're talking about taking off another box on the 2026 reading glasses. Glasses challenge. try a reading app or gadget. And we're talking about pagebound,

which y'all want us to talk about.

So we're,

we're talking about page

bound, which y'all want us to talk about. So we're doing a little review. Plus, we give advice

on what to do when your library's resources are cut and recommend indigenous fiction.

First, Brea, what are you reading? A medical manual. I'm ready. Here's the the wildest thing and this is just a side note for

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