[portaouflop]

A bit tangential but how does a digital book mess up your eyes? Or a physical one. I don’t think reading has any effect on your eyesight.

People are quick nowadays (or always have been) to bring out the good old „todays kids are rotten to the core“ trope - just because it’s now you who is old and doesn’t get how the world moved on, doesn’t mean it’s any different to the centuries of complaining about the youth before us.

I wasted thousands of hours as a kid on unproductive stuff - I don’t see it as being much different to what kids do today.

[danielbln]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139974/

Reading can absolutely have an impact on the eyes. Close distance reading as well as lack of natural light seem to be conditions that can favor e.g. myopia.

[portaouflop]

Yes in some cases close distance maybe causes myopia in very young children - this is not the same as „reading is dangerous for your eyes“.

In general it’s good to take care of your eyes, like you do for the rest of the body and doing anything 8h+ without pause is bad.

But concluding that there is some kind of danger associated with reading is nonsense. Almost anything else you do is more dangerous.

Not convinced that the study you posted is evidence of reading being dangerous: >This is a cross-sectional study and therefore causal relationship could not be determined. The data analyzed in the study were drawn from a questionnaire study conducted about 40 years ago