I find it significantly harder to concentrate when reading an eBook versus a physical copy. Maybe it's Pavlovian conditioning from all the time I waste on my phone, but something about small glass screens makes my focus shut right off
I read fiction on my phone all the time, but when I try to switch to my PC to continue reading, I will find myself doing something entirely different 15 minutes later. Yet, I can read for several hours in a row on my phone (I've even bought an extension cord so that I can charge my phone while reading).
I haven't tried reading from paper books for a decade though. Perhaps it would work, but the selection of things I'm interested in reading is too small.
I think most of it is just that you know you can easily switch to watching Youtube instead of reading, rather than actual physical act of reading on a glass screen.
I also think reading is like a muscle, I find it very difficult to even read a paper book. I'll often make it half way down a page and realize I have no memory of actually reading it.
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I find it significantly harder to concentrate when reading an eBook versus a physical copy. Maybe it's Pavlovian conditioning from all the time I waste on my phone, but something about small glass screens makes my focus shut right off
I read fiction on my phone all the time, but when I try to switch to my PC to continue reading, I will find myself doing something entirely different 15 minutes later. Yet, I can read for several hours in a row on my phone (I've even bought an extension cord so that I can charge my phone while reading).
I haven't tried reading from paper books for a decade though. Perhaps it would work, but the selection of things I'm interested in reading is too small.
I think most of it is just that you know you can easily switch to watching Youtube instead of reading, rather than actual physical act of reading on a glass screen.
I also think reading is like a muscle, I find it very difficult to even read a paper book. I'll often make it half way down a page and realize I have no memory of actually reading it.