[coldtea]

>The phones part is a red herring here. Phones work fine for reading text.

Not as "fine working" as a book or a magazine or even a PC - not with 10 other districtions available in the form of different apps (and sending notifications), and not with that small of a screen.

Is that really controversial?

[mbonnet]

Yes. People don't want to go out and buy or borrow physical writing, or lug around a laptop, if they don't have to.