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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Ok, let's say you had an iPad and you had the choice of reading, playing ngry Birds, or surfing MobileRead? I think reading might not win that round. Oh and email comes in and you hear the app go bing. So you go check email and from there, the reading just gets lost.
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I don't agree with the premise and I don't see the problem.
Sometimes I want to play Minesweeper, so I do that. Sometimes I want to read, so I do that. Having an all-in-one device doesn't mean I play Minesweeper more often and read less; it just means I spend less time switching between Minesweeper-device and reading-device.
When an email comes in, I glance up at the status bar to see what the sender/title is and if it's important. I either deal with the email later (for low priority senders/titles) or immediately (for high priority sender/titles). Then I continue doing what I was doing before the email came in.
So I disagree with your conclusion that "books lose" more than they did before I had the all-in-one device. (Indeed, I read MORE now, because I can take my phone to work, but I can't really take a paperback to work.
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Even if I was playing angry birds more often than reading, how would that be bad? Angry Birds teaches physics and spatial relationships. The Sisters of the Moon series has hawt witches sexing up fox demons. I don't buy the "reading is a purer brain activity than app games" argument.
