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My car broken, so I had to take a long intercity bus trip, for the first time in 15 years. After a short stop in a station, the driver ignited the bus again, bu
by gverrilla 4y ago
My car broken, so I had to take a long intercity bus trip, for the first time in 15 years. After a short stop in a station, the driver ignited the bus again, but he forgot to turn the internal lights system on - so I couldn't read. I waited a few minutes, but he didn't turn it on, so I had to get up to ask him in the cabin. Coming back, that's when I realized mine was the one and only light on: none of the other 100 passengers had it, so they couldn't possibly be reading, unless electronically. 15 years before, I did remember, it would be at least 3 lights on most of the times, tops 5, but being the only one made me feel lonely.
- spoonjim 4y agoReading on a bus would make me barf in 5 minutes
- ungamedplayer 4y agoThat bites. I can read on rough seas.
- szundi 4y agoThat’s easier. Problem is when the word you are reading is constantly tossed back and forth. Following that makes your head hurt. On the sea is low frequency noise it is much easier.
- obruchez 4y agoThe overwhelming majority of e-readers nowadays have a backlight, right? And reading "electronically" is still reading. But I guess I see your point: reading "traditionally" isn't something that many people do. Just like sitting to listen to an album from start to finish, which is something I did a lot when a was a teenager.
- gverrilla 4y agoSeeing e-readers is very rare here in Brazil, and the only people I've seen using them were law students/professionals (to avoid the weight of paperback). Reading books didn't attract much people ever around here, at least from what I know from life experience, but it was more common in the past for sure. I've been to the US/Europe for comparison. In the early 2000's there were big pro-reading campaigns here, but from what I've seen it fostered mostly religious, self-help and harry potter. Personally, what I don't like is the poverty of imagination, and also the false experts all around, citing authors and works they didn't read most of the times (wikipedia is so much easier and faster, you know?) - I call these people wikiexperts or plainly fraudsters.
- matwood 4y agoAudiobooks are the new travel book. I'm old school and like reading my books, but everyone else I know consumes them as audiobooks the majority of the time.
- gverrilla 4y agoI don't think I've ever met a person who has listened to an audiobook. Not really a thing here, at all, at least for now. Maybe it happens, like the podcast craze is happening right now. (Brazil)