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How many books have you read on your phone in the last month? Or did you instead open twitter/hackernews/tiktok?

• darreninthenet 9d ago
  None, I use a Kobo for ebooks and mostly buy "real" paper books. But I was thinking this sounded like a great (and cheap) use case but then I thought why not just use my phone... I don't have any social media apps on my phone anymore except "Hack" for HN... as you imply, too much temptation to distraction. I haven't missed them at all.
• overfeed 9d ago
  I "read" 6 audiobooks on my phone last month. Listening to audiobooks counts as reading, text-snobs be damned.
  • 4ndrewl 9d ago
    It's not snobbery, reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently. Just like reading an interview transcript is different to listening to an interview.
    • overfeed 8d ago
      > reading and listening activate different parts of your brain and you'll experience them differently This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words. I bet reading a hardback lights up different parts of the brain compared to e-book readers, but that difference does not to me matter either.
      • 4ndrewl 5d ago
        Your bet is wrong sadly. Experiencing the story through someone else reading the words to you is different to reading though. I'm not sure why people are so weirdly defensive about this.
        • overfeed 5d ago
          > Your bet is wrong sadly E-ink devices place no demand on fine-motor skills the way turning a page does. I'll stand by by bet. I'm not defensive about the fact that the experience of reading vs listening are different - I challenge the (often implicit) insinuation that one is inherently superior to the other in all circumstances. I do both and know the trade-offs for each. My comment was inspired by the old, but very similar "real books vs kindles" debate.