My reading has taken on a strangely driven, guilty quality, as I try to justify the cost of all those subscriptions and all that hardware by consuming fiction in an unprecedentedly multiplicitous and simultaneous way. Secretly, I long to return to a world in which I had a loving, stable relationship with one paperback at a time.Snaps to this, reader types. I get this kind of book anxiety all the time, and wish I read more non-internet texts, in part because reading War and Peace is impressive, whereas reading the same length in blog posts is...kind of sad.
3.10.2010
The interwebs ruins reading, part one thousand and four
Normally, I would mock someone who said technology is hindering her reading. But this rang so true for me:
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This is what we've come to. The technology makes life easier and yet at the same time more hectic.
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