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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be a constant reader - in the gaining of four university degrees, two of them literature, one political science and one law degree I amassed well over a thousand books and at least a thousand more for pleasure alone and not counting the countless library books I borrowed over the decades.

Somehow in my 40s I stopped reading much and since I am unmarried and have no kids, I can blame this on nobody but myself. It’s the digital devices, the phone and the tablets and the streaming services that mean there is always something to watch that’s interesting. I still take out stacks of books from the library and most get skimmed at best.

This is something I really want to change in my life. The other day I saw an article about that crypto currency guy who just got convicted and his biographer saying that he will be lost in prison without internet. And I thought someone should explain to him that before digital internet there was another kind of internet, where people wrote their dreams and visions and contemplations in books and those connected us and helped us form a social consciousness and a human culture.

I once read an article about a guy who had to serve a federal prison term and used it to read 1000+ books over a few years time. Every so often I’ll think to myself, I need to do some tax evasion or other federal crime so I can get a few years of uninterrupted reading. But really I just need to ditch this technology crap and go back to being how I used to be.[/quote]

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