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[quote=Anonymous]I read after work and before dinner for about an hour, to decompress. Often with a cocktail to really reinforce that "we are not in work mode" message to my brain. It feels better than scrolling, but takes a few days to break the scrolling habit. After dinner, sometimes we read, sometimes we watch something on TV. But we do it together (partner, teens) so I feel just a [i]little [/i]watched, which helps keep my poor mind from wandering. And then I take my book up to bed and read for between 2.5 minutes and two hours, before I fall asleep.

I read on a tablet that doesn't have any social media or communication apps on it. I find paper books to be unwieldy. The other advantage is that I can switch around really easily between the 2-3 books I have checked out from the library at any given time.

Have you tried short stories? I always thought I hated them-- that they ended before I could really get into them, but I think that might be changing. Amor Towles (Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility) has a collection called Table for Two that I've really, really enjoyed. One story is one evening's worth of reading. I've been reading a pretty dense history, and when I need something lighter, I switch to short stories for a day, then go back to the heavier non-fiction. [/quote]

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