You feel no longer get to read books? This is a common syndrome

You feel no longer get to read books? This is a common syndrome

Internet has he really killed our long meditative communion with the texts or are we just nostalgic for a reading of Eden that never really existed?

Slate is an online magazine, you are probably reading this text on a screen. It is even likely that you read the morning rather than the evening. Maybe you're at work, looking for simple information rather than a long contemplative experience. You probably other tabs open ... and you zap on one of them if I bored you.
Your eyes may be a little tired by the flickering of the screen or it took them a while to adjust to the font used by Slate, which differs slightly from the site where you were before. You should pause for 20 seconds if it has been more than half an hour you have not left eye your computer screen, your smartphone, tablet or eBook. Go ahead, I expect. And it does not matter if you do not return -we all know now that most people will not go to the end of this article. If you come back, however, I want to talk about something that concerns me lately: the insecurity of the reader.
It is becoming a cliché among people who have twenty years (especially those over 25 years): as soon as one begins to talk about books, articles or some text either of a certain length, there is always a person to get to whine that it "happens not to liiiiiiiire" explaining that all this is the fault of the Internet, which has significantly reduced concentration abilities. Then follows the story of his early years, during which she could stay for hours immersed in a novel, whereas today it is no longer able to observe scrolling tweets, fluttering like the fish in the river of time-which-does-return-plus.