[Stylist] Attention spans

[Shawn Jacobson]

Vejas
When I was young, very little science fiction was available on talking books.  When I got one, I always read it through, even if it was only a marginal work.  Now, we have more chioce generally and can be discriminating--or maybe I'm just getting jaded.  So yet, I drop a book that isn't doing anything for me a lot sooner than I would have in the bad old days.

Shawn Jacobson
sdj60259 at aol.com


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From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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Cc: Vejas Vasiliauskas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 29, 2023 2:09 am
Subject: [Stylist] Attention spans

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 
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