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I also grew up in a home filled with books when I was young. Reading was my parents' favorite thing about me, and I benefited greatly from it. I think the rece
by haebom 1y ago
I also grew up in a home filled with books when I was young. Reading was my parents' favorite thing about me, and I benefited greatly from it.
I think the recent difficulty people have with reading books stems less from dopamine addiction and more from the sheer abundance of content more appealing than books.
Even when books were mainstream, there were always people who preferred television or comic books. Nowadays, it's even common for people to buy books based solely on the title and author, then take a photo of their purchase and upload it to social media as their goal.
I heard from a friend who works at a publishing company that these days, books written by influencers sell better than those written by professors or experts.
- ljf 1y agoThis is very true for me. If I wanted to throw myself into a weird or surreal story - grabbing a book was often the only place I could get that hit as a teenager in the 90s - we didn't even have a vcr for ages, so the only other places were live TV or radio (or the theatre too I guess). now there are so many places to scratch the exact itch of today's interest. Books are still great, but as an adult with less free time - I find myself falling for the quick hits more readily.
- eimrine 1y agoWhat can be more appealing than reading any of the greatest books ever? You can have unlimited number of them for free nowadays. You can dive really deep in anything. You can download, I don't know, all 114 books by Noam Chomsky for free, you can have hundreds of Math books, you can read such the books which make consuming information from media unneeded. What can be more interesting than downloading 1Tb of books and just reading them every morning and evening?