Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?
With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit Do you feel that it’s harder to read than it used to be? Not harder to read emails, texts and social media posts, of course. We’re reading those all day long. Harder to sit down and lose yourself in a book? How long is it since you even sat down…
In today's digital age, reading books has become a rare pastime. A novelist has devised an eight-week plan to reignite the habit of reading. With smartphones and social media consuming our attention, people are reading less than ever before. The novelist, despite still acquiring and reading books, acknowledges that her reading habit has diminished.
She compares the current reading situation to the difficulty of sitting down and immersing oneself in a book, similar to the struggle of reading emails, texts, and social media posts. The novelist wonders when was the last time she read a weekend newspaper cover to cover, or enjoyed a variety of genres and writers. She believes that this decline in reading is not a deliberate decision, but rather a gradual change that has occurred.
Despite being a novelist and regularly discussing the importance of thinking, the novelist herself is finding it increasingly challenging to read. She finds the effort more demanding and the habit less consistent than it used to be. Despite still purchasing and acquiring books, the novelist acknowledges that the time spent reading has diminished.
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