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John Byrne
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
When I moved into this house, I started donating a lot of my books to a nearby library. Books I’d bought on impulse and not read, or books I knew I was not likely to read again.

Then the library started to make it difficult to donate books. Only on Wednesday, for one hour at lunchtime.

So I shrugged and stopped trying.

Of course, I kept all my reference books. Didn’t have a smart phone yet.

Now, I just never seem to use them.

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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
The problem with our amazing pocket computers is that they have the tendency to negatively affect our attention span as time goes on. The term I’ve read for it is “popcorn brain.” There have been times in the past where I’ve struggled to read anything because of a propensity to jump from app to app to app - reading physical books again really helped me mitigate that habit, at least to some extent. 

I still mostly read via epub - there are definite benefits to either option  - but I’ve also found it’s easier to become engrossed in a book when my hands are occupied by holding one. My wife’s solution to the conundrum of distractibility was to buy a dedicated e-reader.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 11 May 2026 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I find I read best if I get my app scrolling over with and then start to read.
I can go a much longer session then.

Current reading/listening:
Cast audio of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. An astonishingly long
audio - over 26 hours. I have really been enjoying the production of this
series, having never read Potter.
It is incredible just how much is cut from the books for the films. Especially
with this one. I think I’ve mentioned that the first q3 chapters are just
ignored by the films, but there are whole characters, sub-plots, months of
story missing throughout the book.
I’ve just got to the scene where the film ends and there are still TWO
HOURS left.
I have no idea what this will be.

In comics I continue to make my way through the STAR WARS old EU
comics in chronological order. I’ve finished the Dark Horse Brian Wood
comics, which had some terrible art, and am about to start on the
REBELLION series.
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