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Was obvious to anyone. Nothing wrong with phones, taking them away is just isolating outcasts, neuroduvergents and minorities from the actual global world and forcing them with no escape to suffer the bullying from their local community, teachers and peers etc.
I'm neurodivergent. Wanna know what would a been great? Easier access to the library and more books.
I'm also neurodivergent. I actually had a library with access to infinite books for free, it's called a telephone and/or laptop and the internet, where all books are free and easily accessible.
I, too, am aware of zlib and librera reader. But there's a difference between a curated selection of books in physical form in front of you, and deciding to read a book on an electronic device. The former dissuades the reader-to-be from abandoning the idea over too wide a selection, and removes other electronic distractions from asserting themselves over the reading material - I refer here to notifications that flash over the current window.
Plus, there's plenty of people who choose not to read, despite the option being available. Having the option physically there in front of you is far more encouraging, in my opinion. And once they start reading, they might go on to seek titles outside of that curated selection. Great success!
Look up a listicle? Da-doink
Fair, but that shit ain't cheap.
If the book is good you'll read it however you can. I once read the entirety of the Berserk manga at my desktop PC in a shitty wooden chair.
This is pure pop psychological speculation.
Turn them off?
And so there were before phones. A lack of curiosity wasn't invented in 2008, even if it may feel like it if that's when you were born.
However - wider availability has almost always increased literacy other factors notwithstanding, from the printing press to the digital media of today.
I fully disagree. If anything - it's about meeting people where they're at, and today - people are on their phones.
Indeed, and you're not gonna get them to start by making them go to a library like some nerd, but by getting them to be interested via the places they're already at.