Less online reading, more book reading

Back to Dave’s book pages.

waiting for computer: read a book or magazine. don’t surf!

I don’t watch a lot of video or too much scrolling of feeds most of the time. I am reading stuff. But I’m not always reading the most nutritious stuff, especially when I’m just killing a little time or otherwise avoiding a task I should be doing…​ So I end up reading what must be tens of thousands of words every day that could have been words in a book or long-form magazine article.

Why the paper (or e-ink) matters: it ends! it’s cohesive! there’s no hyperlinks!

In the last two years, I’ve discovered that "doom scrolling" isn’t the only reason I’m unhappy when I’m online too long. It’s even the blogs and the long-form writing. I wrote about that in the "social media" section of this card about tech addiction and burnout.