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Are eReaders dying?
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ok folks, before you run off and write a story about my time slip with my Goodreads app and my cell phone....check out Stephen King's story UR...a guy gets a VERY weird Kindle...its a e-book in the Kindle store. Word is Amazon paid King a big pile of cash to write it.
I spend at least 7 hours a day on my Mac and nothing much happens... But then I'm a teenager, so things are probably different, eh?
Well modern monitors don't cause eye glare like the old ones. In fact unless you sit about 2 inches away then you are probably going to be ok!
True true true. But most of my friends hate reading online, or doing anything on a computer for that matter, because "it's glaring", and their computers are at least 2 years newer than mine..Depends on the person, I guess.
it also depends howlong you spend in front of the screen...I think the rule of thumb is take a 5 minute break away from it every hour...even videogames on the tv...if I close my eyes after a few hours of Elder Scrolls on the X-Box my head spins...so take a break, be it e-readers or what.
---- Spooky the Safety Gnome
---- Spooky the Safety Gnome
That rule is useful for reading hard copy books too... Taking a short break every couple of hours helps a lot..
If you read a book for too long you end up in the world of the book...
But I love ending up in the world of the book. That's when I think the author has done their job- when I can visualize that world so well, that I miss it when the book is done. Well- except for the Hunger Games trilogy. That's a messed up world. Well written, but not one I'll miss.
I think it is hard to adhere to a regular break schedule when your metric for a successful book is finishing it, and realizing you experienced "lost time" in the same way that alien abductees talk about.Never been a problem with assigned readings, though.
That's because assigned reading is dissected. Nothing takes the love out of a book faster than a teacher's assigned cadaver and her handing you the metaphorical scalpel.
The idea is scoff worthy, I say. Written from iPhone 5s with all the e-reader apps.
Shakespeare has been done a real disservice by teachers - he was supposed to be seen in play form rather than read. Additionally forcing kids to read books rather than letting them come to a book themselves like a wizard to a wand is another major fail.
Timothy wrote: "Shakespeare has been done a real disservice by teachers - he was supposed to be seen in play form rather than read. Additionally forcing kids to read books rather than letting them come to a book t..."I feel the same way about Dickens. The youngest a modern person should be on first reading of Dickens is about 20--with a good British history class under their belt.
The other side of letting kids comes to books on their own is that most of the kids I went to school with, wouldn't ever pick up a book unless a grade was on the line, smart kids included. Intelligence is no guarantee of bookishness.
Daran wrote: "I feel the same way about Dickens. The youngest a modern person should be on first reading of Dickens is about 20--with a good British history class under their belt."That's a shame. Most of the kids I went to school with loved books, and loved sharing how good (or bad) a book is. I feel certain that some of Dickens would have been recommended, but that a Tale of Two Cities wouldn't be one of them. I still think I'm too young for that one!
Natalie wrote: "That's a shame. Most of the kids I went to school with loved books, and loved sharing how good (or bad) a book is. "Of my graduating class of 500, only approx 100 had read something that wasn't assigned, and most of those had only read five or six books. Compare that to my twelve or so friends, all of whom worked in the school library, were were reading between five or six books a week on our own.
Most of the really smart kids didn't have time to read. The smartest person I knew in our senior year of high school was talking six AP classes, plus Academic Olympics and Odyssey of the mind as extra circulars. I honestly think that our society deprives the most likely readers of reading time.
Admittedly, I graduated a few years before the first Harry Potter, and the resurgent YA market. That, and the new technologies, have made reading for enjoyment among kids a little more common than in my day.
my high school senior class had 30 pepole in it, most were unable to read their diploma.
And the fewer gizmos (and chargers-and then wall sockets) I have to worry about, the better.