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Comment by blks

7 days ago

It’s devices but also parents. If parents don’t read books everyday, kids won’t either.

Why can't you read from a screen instead? Why do all the benefits of reading seemingly disappear when read from a display screen?

  • Most screens have distractions just one tap away.

    Personally I also like the physics of a book a lot more for reading. Every book is a physically different object. You physically turn the page. You can physically see how far you are in the book. It's just all much less abstract and tangible.

    • > Most screens have distractions just one tap away.

      What? I guess you mean the mobile and tablet world... And even then I'm pretty sure that's bullshit, there is surely a pdf viewer without adverts

  • It’s a different experience but E-readers come close. Screens’ UIs are too interactive for a proper lecture.

  • every screen, even the majority of e-readers, now has advertising, which is designed to distract and incept.

    • .... So ban magazines yeah? They contain adverts, and in fact most local newspapers are FULL of ads because they can't sustain themselves otherwise.