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I find it difficult to read longer articles on a computer, mostly because it's so easy to get distracted by so many things - other links in the page, other tabs
by barbs 11y ago
I find it difficult to read longer articles on a computer, mostly because it's so easy to get distracted by so many things - other links in the page, other tabs in the browser and other apps open on the desktop. I tend to get easily distracted reading printed books, however. Mostly my thoughts will wander, or if I'm outside somewhere I'll get distracted by some sort of external stimuli.
I was actually thinking this morning, it'd be great if I could have some sort of mode in Chrome that shows only the article I wanted to read, in full-screen, with nothing else visible. And to encourage me to read the article to the end before changing task, I wouldn't be able to change the tab (via CTRL-tab or CTRL-pageUp/down), I would only be able to close the tab. I'm actually not 100% sure this would help, but it would be an interesting experiment.
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- song 11y agoMy solution for that is to read on my Kobo... Whenever an article seems like interesting enough to warrant reading, I add it to pocket and then read it on my ereader... It's more comfortable and less distracting
- whoisthemachine 11y agoFYI, recent versions of Firefox include a reader view.
- Dewie3 11y ago> I find it difficult to read longer articles on a computer, mostly because it's so easy to get distracted by so many things - other links in the page, other tabs in the browser and other apps open on the desktop. In this case Richard Stallman-style "web browsing" might be better. :-)