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user-inactivated  ·  3981 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading - NYTimes.com

    It’s no accident that the click-happy online universe can sap our focus and make it harder for us to read a full-length book with rapt attention.

I see this claim every day. Serious question, has anyone made sure it's true? It's like, speak for your fucking self New York Times. I probably read ten or fifteen thousand words a day, maybe more, a good bit of it in hard print. So do all of the most interesting people I know. This doesn't even make sense to me. If I'm reading and I get a text, I answer the text and go back to reading. What do other people do?