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Originally Posted by pwalker8
That is the downside to the eInk readers, none of them are particularly good at library management.
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On the other hand, you can't double shelve the books.
I'll answer the original question and say that I probably read a little less now that my ereader habit has matured compared to what I read in my all-paper days. Back then, reading was my sedentary habit and nothing else. I don't watch television and I don't engage in any kind of handicraft. But now there are sedentary distractions with the world at my fingertips. I try to control it, but time spent online is time spent not reading when I would have been reading back in pre-internet days.
However, I'll note two offsets. The first is that my eyes have aged and while I still can read paper books (with some exceptions), paper only would have affected how much reading I can do; moreover, there was a stretch when I had eye issues when I would have been unable to read at all. The other is a different form of electronic book consumption, audiobooks. While it's not reading per se, audiobooks have transformed downtime when hands and/or eyes are otherwise occupied. My reading totals skyrocketed when I started listening to audiobooks.