Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
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Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
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#2> “A restlessness has seized hold of many of us,” wrote the American author Rebecca Solnit, “a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing”
However, as the article testifies, there is still pleasure (including a calmer intellectual pleasure) to be found in isolation with a book.
A useful hypothesis: Loss of attention span (due to an internet focus) can be reversed, and it is worth doing so.
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#3I mean, yes, I mostly read things online nowadays, but... I'm still reading, it's just on the computer now.
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#4What does the author think people are doing on the internet? At least some are reading.
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#6What does the author think people are doing on the internet? At least some are reading.
Some are reading with great comprehension rates, most are skimming through content, and up to the..next piece.
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#7What does the author think people are doing on the internet? At least some are reading.
Since the article seems mostly concerned with book reading, I've added that to the title above.
(All: please respond to the substance of an article and not technicalities or provocative bits.)
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#8What does the author think people are doing on the internet? At least some are reading.
Some are reading with great comprehension rates, most are skimming through content, and up to the..next piece.
Are comprehension rates that important when your goal isn’t something serious like education or self-help?
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#9I mean, yes, I mostly read things online nowadays, but... I'm still reading, it's just on the computer now.
this is what i was thinking, i think it depends on the demographic but overall i heard that reading rates are way higher now due to the internet’s text content. granted reading books are great but i mostly read those online as well or audiobooks in the car
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#10Internet is the new boogeyman. TV used to be it. Radio was it one time. Hell, _novels_ were treated this way.
The one thing they all have in common is being new behavior patterns that people can worry and kvetch about.