One Great Reason You Should Read Books On Your Phone

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a phone.

Of course you do. Everyone does.

But if you’re like me, it’s probably a smart phone. A little rectangular brick of plastic and electronics that has access to almost all the information in the world and can beam it straight into your face with the click of a button. It’s quite incredible.

It can also be quite exhausting. I have at least 6 different apps where I communicate with people, either through text, voice or video, I have 5 different email accounts that I need to monitor for different reasons, and I a gazilion other apps that keep sending me notifications. Of course, I can (and have) turned off many of them , but when you have friends all over the world, you kind of have to pay attention if you want to stay in touch.

On top of all that I pay my bill on my phone, check the weather, do my taxes, keep up with my team at work, try to learn a language, take pictures, book flights, keep tickets and boarding cards, buy my train tickets, and even charge my car.

There’s a lot of stuff happening on that little brick – and we haven’t even covered all the mindless scrolling and staring that I do just for fun.

So, when I find myself staring into that unholy abyss, for the 9th straight hour of the day, wondering what it was I was supposed to remember to do, and feeling like it’s all a bit much and getting to me — I open a book.

Suddenly, that black screen is just a story.

People used to raise their eyebrows at me for reading on my phone. “Real books are so much better,” they’d say. Or, “Ever heard of a Kindle?” More often than not, they’d assume I was playing a game.

But I love reading books on my phone. It means I literally always have my book with me. I can read it on the train, in line at the store, during my break at work, on the toilet… I can read whenever I want!

And the best thing about it is that I can make that little black rectangle be something else than just a source of stress and headaches. I can close all the little programs that ru(i)n my life, and just read a story for a while. And that feels like an antidote.

… And no, my eyes don’t get sore. Just turn the brightness down, and use a red light filter.

As always, I’d absolutely love it if you checked out my books. You can find them all right here.

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