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nicole

@elilla I share your analysis, though for me audiobooks are no great solution since I tend to want to read every word but also tend to get distracted by thoughts rather quickly, if I want to focus just for seconds at a time, but still. I think audio plays, which I guess are more effort to make might work as they condense some of the descriptions of how someone says something or feels into the way they say it or a soundscape can just be played rather than longly described, so less opportunity to feel like I missed something important. The only thing in my life that comes close to the prejudgement of "phones bad, actually" is my morning routine in which I unintentionally gravitate towards the phone since it's also my alarm clock. My analysis of that however, once more, is less of "phone bad" and more of "phone used wrongly for the circumstances" as just switching to a seperate alarm clock might already solve the situation

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elilla&, tactical travesti

@nicole the thing with audiobooks is that I can read them while doing dishes or cleaning the floor, and that blocks out both the Internet and the feelings of guilt.

I definitely lose some passages when I read in audio but it's still a big boon compared to not reading books at all.

nicole

@elilla yeah, that makes perfect sense. In that area they'd have to compete with podcasts in my habits, idk who would "win" that, I really don't. Though it might be feasable to add audiobooks into the podcatcher... I think I might try that. Thanks for making me think about that :)

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