Anecdote about how time of day affects reading: Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's Bookworm and one of the country's best readers, says that during the day he

Anecdote about how time of day affects reading: Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's Bookworm and one of the country's best readers, says that during the day he reads at a relatively slow pace, say 50 pages per hour; but he will often wake up in the middle of the night and read an entire book over a few hours. I believe he referred to it as "nightbrain."