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I've noticed that I rarely properly read anything online anymore. 90% of the time I'm just scanning or skimming. I do focus on stuff for extended periods of ti

• cubefox 3y ago
  > I do focus on stuff for extended periods of time like watching a movie, reading a book, working on something, etc. Note that watching a movie requires far less attention than reading a book. Movies, first, are compressed stories (movie scripts are less than a hundred pages) where, second, nothing is left to the imagination. I'd bet that people read much fewer books today than before video streaming became popular, or before TV went mainstream. (I do rarely watch movies, but I mostly stopped reading books since I bought a smartphone.)
  • pier25 3y ago
    > I mostly stopped reading books since I bought a smartphone Before smartphones I read voraciously and then around 2010 I kinda stopped. Not technical books (which I still read when the need arises) but novels. At the start of the pandemic I got a Kindle and since then I've gotten back into the habit of reading fiction. I read at least 1 hour every day.
    • cubefox 3y ago
      Yeah an e-book is better than reading on a tablet or smartphone, since the limited OS means there are less distractions. But for me, there mere existence of a smartphone in my pockets triggers my Web addiction.