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by joshmanders 928 days ago
How so? I'm sure thousands of years ago when paper was introduced SOMEONE was "the problem with you is that you're reading on paper and not stone!"

If your argument is that staring a screen is bad for your eyes, I'd agree with you there, but that has NOTHING to do with the mental stimulation of reading. You are still reading, stimulating your brain. How those words are presented to you does not change that.

The "rewires your brain" argument is in regards to short form videos and other stuff that is to stimulate low attention spans.

If I read a book be it physical or on a kindle or the kindle app on my phone does not change anything.

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Next time you're getting groceries, sitting at a redlight, waiting in line, etc, and you see everyone around you looking at their phone, do you really think they're all reading Kindle? I'd say the vast majority are probably scrolling some sort of short form feed.