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My advice would be the exact opposite. It's too easy to get distracted on a phone. Physical books or a non-tablet e-reader like a Paperwhite are better for making yourself read, because all you can do with them is read. I say just take a book you want to read and remove the distractions. If you want to read in bed then leave the phone across the room and put the TV remote in the other room and whatnot. Make anything other than reading take extra steps.
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rear end-penny posted:I feel like I know what this post is about, but the core content, and how it relates to the OP is lost a little on me. Being at home frequently makes reading more difficult for me. The last decade or so the vast majority of the reading I've accomplished is at work, on break. Sometimes, especially when I'm in the home stretch of the book, I'll bring it home with me over a weekend or something and finish it so I can bring a new one to read on break. At certain points in my life keeping a book in the car has been a lifesaver. While rush hour traffic is hard to condone the sort of attention split reading suggests, I've had appreciable progress in longer drive through lines, pumping gas, arriving entirely too early to a job interview, etc. Just my two cents. What I got from his question was less "How do I make the time to read?" and more "How do I make myself spend my time on reading instead of on other things?" All the things you mentioned are great ways to get more reading time, and I do most of those myself, but they don't help me spend that time reading as opposed to loving around on my phone. What really helps me sit down and read a book, as opposed to loving around on the forums or whatnot, is to set aside some time for reading and then take steps to make reading the most convenient option I have. I'm less likely to put my book down and gently caress around on my phone if my phone isn't next to the bed at night. That kind of thing.
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Empress Brosephine posted:So I like books, I would always buy paperbacks but never read them. Same with ebooks. I'd buy them, read maybe a chapter on my phone and then never read it again. My guess is that it's because the only thing the Paperwhite does is read books. When I'm on my phone my attention has a lot of competition. General internet stuff, the forums, Discord, checking email, etc, etc. There's lots of things I do on my phone, and the same goes for my iPad. The Kindle just reads books, so there's nothing to distract from reading.
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