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School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But there's a difference between a curated selection of books

Look up a listicle? Da-doink

in physical form in front of you

Fair, but that shit ain't cheap.

and deciding to read a book on an electronic device.

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.

The former dissuades the reader-to-be from abandoning the idea over too wide a selection

This is pure pop psychological speculation.

other electronic distractions from asserting themselves over the reading material - I refer here to notifications that flash over the current window.

Turn them off?

Plus, there's plenty of people who choose not to read, despite the option being available.

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.

Having the option physically there in front of you is far more encouraging, in my opinion.

I fully disagree. If anything - it's about meeting people where they're at, and today - people are on their phones.

And once they start reading, they might go on

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.