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Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

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A page on oliverburkeman.com is cited by 18 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 12 October 2026).

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18blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1820
Last 90 days23
Last 30 days23
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited17 Apr 2023
Latest citation2 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title6 of 18 blogs
New citing blogs a weeksince Apr 2023
New citing blogs a week, since Apr 2023: 183 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 2

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Shape: evergreen. Half of its 17 citing blogs had cited it after 658 days; 65% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 18 blogs across 3 subjects: technology 7, life 4, books and writing 3, unclassified 4.

It crossed over: blogs in at least two subjects each make up 15% or more of its classified citers.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket6 blogs
  • treat your to-read pile like a river3 blogs
  • treat your to-read pile like a river | oliver burkeman3 blogs
  • a stream1 blog
  • fantastic article by oliver burkeman1 blog

Cited by 18 blogs in 20 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
Doug Jones1 post
Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver …

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman”

Read at doug.pub (opens in a new tab)
2 Oct 2026
Sajal Choudhary2 posts
Better Talks and Reading Metaphors

linked as “Oliver Burkeman talks about this in his post here.”

Read at sajalchoudhary.net (opens in a new tab)
1 Oct 2026
1 other post
Treat Your To-read Pile Like a River

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman”

Read at sajalchoudhary.net (opens in a new tab)
30 Sept 2026
lifeinhex.com1 post
Restarting the blog

linked as “in his article”

Read at lifeinhex.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Jul 2026
siddharthagolu.com1 post
Recommended Readings

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at siddharthagolu.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Jun 2026
eleanorkonik.com1 post
đź“š Neat Stuff I Read in February 2026

linked as “treating your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at eleanorkonik.com (opens in a new tab)
4 Mar 2026
roelwillems.com1 post
When Everything Is Possible, Priorities Become Strategy

linked as “Oliver Burkeman essay”

Read at roelwillems.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Feb 2026
Ratika Deshpande1 post
Slow reading and commonplace notebooks

linked as “what is the point in trying to outrun it”

Read at chavanniclass.wordpress.com (opens in a new tab)
11 Sept 2025
opentransport.bearblog.dev1 post
Read in August

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at opentransport.bearblog.dev (opens in a new tab)
2 Aug 2025
kpwags.com1 post
Reading Log - February 3, 2025 (#109)

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at kpwags.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Feb 2025
Hello world | thomasrigby.com1 post
Weeknotes: 2025-W05

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river”

Read at thomasrigby.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Feb 2025
ihanna.nu1 post
Information overload, focus and blog extinction

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at ihanna.nu (opens in a new tab)
10 Oct 2024
hugo.ferreira.cc2 posts
🔗 Rivers and buckets

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river”

Read at hugo.ferreira.cc (opens in a new tab)
7 Apr 2024
1 other post
💭 Slack Overload? Regain control with Inbox Zero principles

linked as “treat your to-read pile like a river”

Read at hugo.ferreira.cc (opens in a new tab)
17 Apr 2023
sketchplanations.com1 post
Rivers and buckets

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river”

Read at sketchplanations.com (opens in a new tab)
7 Apr 2024
olano.dev1 post
Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader

linked as “a stream”

Read at olano.dev (opens in a new tab)
12 Dec 2023
cagrimmett.com1 post
https://cagrimmett.com/likes/01ea28127e/

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at cagrimmett.com (opens in a new tab)
7 Nov 2023
Melanie Richards1 post
Learning Log, Aug 2023

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket”

Read at melanie-richards.com (opens in a new tab)
6 Sept 2023
Jesper Bylund1 post
What I learned week 17 2023

linked as “fantastic article by Oliver Burkeman”

Read at jesperbylund.com (opens in a new tab)
28 Apr 2023
Kwon.nyc1 post
Links

linked as “Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman”

Read at kwon.nyc (opens in a new tab)
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