cristóbal on X: "I used to think I needed a physical book to read. Recently, I've noticed that having a pen and notebook can get me to concentrate on a PDF on a Kindle, or even on my phone. Seems to suggest that any affordance for indexing the text is sufficient to ground attention." / X

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Post See new posts Conversation Davey Morse follows cristóbal @tobyshooters I used to think I needed a physical book to read. Recently, I've noticed that having a pen and notebook can get me to concentrate on a PDF on a Kindle, or even on my phone. Seems to suggest that any affordance for indexing the text is sufficient to ground attention. 7:10 PM · Oct 29, 2023 · 1,948 Views 3 4 40 5 Post your reply Reply cristóbal @tobyshooters · 21h I wonder if phones are difficult to read on, not because there are distractions, but because reading becomes a smooth, linearized process. There's no affordance to reconstruct the message. You can't hold pages with your fingers, flip back and forth, take notes in the margin. 2 3 23 1.5K cristóbal @tobyshooters · 21h This is one of those nuances that media theorists spell out: the written word is visual. It is not the same as audio. You do not read in order. Your eyes are constant

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