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A comment on The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exagger... by YinglingLight on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:42AM (#17653538)
There is a difference in the level of "fulfillment", the degree of satisfaction that one can only earn from active engagement. Binge-ing on Netflix series is easier, more passive, to the extent where it has to poke you after 3 episodes to make sure you're still conscious.
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Re:The Death, and Life, of Reading Have Been Greatly Exagger... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @12:37PM (#17654625)
I wouldn't call reading fiction "active engagement". The only activity in that is turning pages and occasionally changing the way you sit.

(Or maybe it's just me. Either I don't know how to read books properly, or have all the necessary activities running as background processes in my head, not requiring conscious control.)

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