Internet addiction and the habit of book reading • Hacker News Board

Re: Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

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Post by whodunnit » Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 11:54 PM UTC

wincy wrote: post #36

senortumnus wrote: post #22

HN represents a wellspring of deeper reading than is generally afforded by the current entertainment cruft portals of the web - reddit, FB, insta, USA today, financial times, etc etc down to the SEO hellholes of recipe sites, youtube product placement; you get the idea. Let's appreciate HN for the quality of reading material and its curb on our drift to the rest of the 'popular' web. And I don't think I'm alone in al…

I used to read books all the time. I spent most of my waking hours as a teenager reading books. I’m 35 now and can barely hold attention on anything, I read maybe 3 books a year if I’m lucky. Even on Hacker News I almost exclusively read and comment on the comments, not the actual article unless I see someone says “have you read the article?” I don’t really know why. I have 8+ hours a day screentime on my iPhone, whi…

Sounds like you might have burnout. Get checked out. It reduces your emotional and intellectual energy resources.

Re: Internet addiction and the habit of book reading

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Post by betwixthewires » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 2:51 AM UTC

kinghtown wrote: post #216

knaik94 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Staring at a phone doing what? Swiping to refresh on social media for hours and hours at a time? Using a phone is like going to the library, what you do there is what actually matters. Checking social media can be thought of as asking a librarian what new books are in. If you're asking every minute of every hour for 8 hours, then I can see that being a problem. But that's not really how people use the phone. You chec…

“using a phone is like going to the library” lol

To be fair, it can be. It is for me a lot of the time. But most people don't use the internet that way, which is a shame really.

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Post by jquery » Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

BooneJS wrote: post #327

jquery wrote: post #54

I read more books than ever these days. It’s so convenient to be able to carry my entire library on my iPad.

Is this a "in case I switch books", or a "in case I have to look something up" convenience?

In case I switch books, mainly, although it is convenient to be able to share a passage from a book sometimes.