Re:Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
by acchow on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:32AM
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You go to the next book to read in the same way you click on the next link on the web.
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Re:Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
by filoleg on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:40AM
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Or even more obviously, keep clicking and scrolling to the next channel on TV. Not that much these days, because everyone switched away from cable onto the streaming services, but it should still be an easy comparison that is understood by most here.
Re:Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
by throwawayboise on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:51AM
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Broadcast TV stations used to stop broadcasting every night. By midnight or 1:00 or so, none of the three or four channels you could receive was showing anything at all.
Re:Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
by chickenpotpie on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:47AM
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Yes but with substantially more friction. I have to stand up, walk over to my bookshelf, go through my books, grab one, sit back down, and start reading vs click
Re:Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
by stinos on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:19PM
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have to stand up, walk over to my bookshelf, go through my books, grab one, sit back dow
You can treat that as a chore, or as something exciting. Pick the latter and it's not really friction anymore, in that it's enjoyable friction: there's a certain expectation I get from picking the next book, encountering something I haven't read for ages and remembering how good it was.