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> I know people who scroll through social media for hours on end, in my opinion that feels like a bad use of your time. >But what stops someone from reading a b
by egoisticalgoat 7y ago
> I know people who scroll through social media for hours on end, in my opinion that feels like a bad use of your time.
>But what stops someone from reading a book?
Honest question, why are phones usually seen as lesser than books? Imho, fiction books have as little value as people write off to phones, but i just don't see people complain this much about their kids wasting their time reading books too often. (Not trying to attack fiction books either haha)
- vallode 7y agoI actually meant reading a book on the phone :) As in: "The two hours someone spends on a phone could be reading books, is that so bad?" Not quite sure why some would see reading on a phone as lesser, maybe because its tied to the rest of the addictive phone environment?
- em-bee 7y agomost of my phone time is spent listening to audiodrama and books. on average i spend more time on that than watching tv.
- vallode 7y agoCould you recommend some audio-drama? I'd love to listen to something like that!
- em-bee 7y agouh, direct recommendations is a hard question. it depends on what genres you like. there is tons out there. here are a few resources to get you started: http://www.audio-drama.com/ http://www.audio-drama.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/ reddit is a good place to get notified about new releases if you like star trek, check this list: https://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html https://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html that's what got me started with other science-fiction audio drama.
- LamaOfRuin 7y agoGiven the caveat that such studies are often looking for particular outcomes and thus suspect, there are a pile of studies documenting benefits of reading, including (for several of them exclusively) fiction. We either do not have, or have the opposite result, from studies on phone usage. Given that phones are now just general purpose internet-connected computers, I would expect them to have orders of magnitude more variability in outcomes based on actual individual usage, but it's not identically the same cultural panic that happened when mass market fiction entered the market. It should be noted however for those not aware, that if you give people decontextualized quotes describing the behaviour of readers when mass market books were introduced, they assume they are current and describing smartphone usage.