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posted by n1 on Sunday June 15 2014, @03:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the tl;dr dept.

Tim Gray, writing in the New York Reviews of Books, has a very interesting article that asks whether it has become impossible to find the uninterrupted blocks of time that are needed to read serious works of literature, and whether the change in the reading environment is also changing how books are written.

Ordinarily I ignore the "Computer Bad! Destroy Society!" arguments, but I have to say that what he describes seems all too familiar. I can't recall the last time that I actually sat down for two or three hours just to read.

I grew up spending hours each day, every day devouring books of all sorts. Is this a thing that's lost to people raised with Internet, Game Consoles, and Smartphones? Pardon me if I sound like an old fart.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 15 2014, @11:40AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday June 15 2014, @11:40AM (#55567) Journal

    To reject your implication that not being on facebook means not having friends, I wouldn't even need to know what facebook is.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday June 15 2014, @06:07PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 15 2014, @06:07PM (#55633)
    Umm, no, that was never implied in my post.
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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday June 16 2014, @12:01AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 16 2014, @12:01AM (#55710)
    So did technology destroy your ability to read? ;)
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