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Getting my love for reading paper books back again
Books are food for your brain!
For the past 10 years or so my reading has been focused on reading books in digital form and that’s all good and well, but the past 4 months I have started to find back to my love to read actual books. It’s a special feeling carrying around a book, without any distractions from updates on your phone or tablet. And it’s a special feeling when you turn actual paper pages.
Growing up me and my father used to go to the library once a week and have a bag each with books back home with us. For me, curious as I have always been collecting information, reading novels, and poems. That made a foundation for all the things I have both works with and had as a hobby.
I’m a speed reader, I can get relevant information from a page more or less instantly. I don’t read one page at a time, I read the whole book spread at once. Explaining how it’s done is hard, so I will not go into it here. But I acquired that knowledge while studying music science in Uppsala. I had to scan many pages to refine the knowledge I needed for my studies. However, I’m not as fast as I used these days to be, but I’m sure with practice my speed will increase again.
Obviously there are both pros and cons of reading analog or digital. Reading digital gives you (sometimes) possibilities to mark…
