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Originally Posted by Barty
Ask yourself how much time you spend on MR alone, and whether it is not time that would be better spent reading  . And how much of the time spent here is to avoid reading rather than further it? |
When I'm on MR, I AM reading.* And writing. What else could you be doing, tasting it?
The only difference as I see it is attention span. I can do other things between the stuff I read here and still enjoy it and get something out of it. If I had to divide my attention while reading a book or a long-ish story, I could neither enjoy it, nor learn from it.
ApK
*By the way, I don't mean "reading" in only the literal sense, suggesting that all visual scanning of text on a display is "reading" in the same sense of an activity. I mean that on forums like MR, where posts often tend to have some depth, structure and something to say, it is indeed reading in the same sense as reading a newspaper, or a collection of very short essays.
I don't consider consuming most tweets, texts or some of the less literate tech forums to be "reading" int he same sense. That's more, eh, what can I call it to differentiate, 'visually decoding text-based symbols.'