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Old 09-13-2013, 05:43 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
A very good point.

On a stock smartphone, the pleasure of reading is often interrupted by tasks which the smartphone's software brings to one's attention. Perhaps tablets are less like that (or perhaps your tablet's OS allows you to disable more automatic processes than my stock-OS'd phone does me).
Well, I use my phone (or sometimes laptop) for most messaging and suchlike, whereas my iPad is mainly for comics and a few games, which I have set not to interrupt me. iOS alerts are very customisable. I read a couple of novels on it recently just because some Netgalley publishers fail to make an epub available. I turned the brightness down very low, and the background to a sepia. Still kept me awake.

FWIW, my Glo doesn't seem to keep me awake any more than a paper book does. Certainly a few times I've tried and tried to stay awake with a captivating ebook, and failed!
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