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No. I enjoy a book as much as I ever did and I love that I can grab so many of them on an eReader now and that they take up so much less space than bulky Braille volumes although nothing beats holding a book in your hand. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 29, 2023, at 20:37, Shawn Jacobson via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br>
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<div style="color:;font: 10pt Helvetica Neue;">V<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ejas</span>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.<br>
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From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org><br>
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Sent: Wed, Mar 29, 2023 2:09 am<br>
Subject: [Stylist] Attention spans<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm curious to hear others' thoughts on this! <br>
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