[Stylist] Attention spans

[David Andrews]

There was a book, recently, on NLS BARD that talks about this and 
related subjects.

The evidence is pretty compelling that for most people attention span 
and ability to focus has decreased.

Dave

At 01:09 AM 3/29/2023, Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist wrote:
>Hi All,
>I was wondering if anyone else has noticed their attention spans for 
>reading books are shorter with the increasing use of the Internet 
>and social media?
>I find that mine seems to have declined over the years. When I was 
>really young, Braille book and digital book availability were very 
>limited, and I literally read whatever I could get my finger on.
>Now I find that, with books where I feel the plot is slow-moving, I 
>am quick to move on. I need to be captivated by the first few 
>sentences in a short story (well, ideally, the first sentence) to 
>get engrossed by it.
>There's also the fact that you no longer need to read a very large 
>book to learn about an event in history: you can now just take a 
>very brief (and definitely less deep) trivia quiz on it.
>I'm curious to hear others' thoughts on this!
>Vejas