The piece was beautiful, and very much worth the long read. I think if it had some kind of reading time estimate at the top of the article, the random-click-thr

The piece was beautiful, and very much worth the long read. I think if it had some kind of reading time estimate at the top of the article, the random-click-throughs may be less put off. I've been maning to do that for pieces I plan on writing. When picking up a book you can feel how long a read it is, flipping through a magazine you can see how many pages an article is. A single scrolling web page that you click to, blindly, can ambush you from a time cost..