Why People Don't Read Books Anymore - Carbon-Based Lifeform Blues - 3 views
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I was sitting in the bus station the other day reading a book
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glancing around me I could see only one other person reading: an exceptionally old lady whose youth probably predated television. Everybody else–that is, if they weren’t talking or just staring off dull-eyed into the middle-distance–was staring at the tiny screens of their mobile phones.
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A good book on the on the impact of technology on reading books: “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age” by Sven Birkerts.