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You go to the next book to read in the same way you click on the next link on the web.



Or even more obviously, keep clicking and scrolling to the next channel on TV. Not that much these days, because everyone switched away from cable onto the streaming services, but it should still be an easy comparison that is understood by most here.


Broadcast TV stations used to stop broadcasting every night. By midnight or 1:00 or so, none of the three or four channels you could receive was showing anything at all.


Yes but with substantially more friction. I have to stand up, walk over to my bookshelf, go through my books, grab one, sit back down, and start reading vs click


have to stand up, walk over to my bookshelf, go through my books, grab one, sit back dow

You can treat that as a chore, or as something exciting. Pick the latter and it's not really friction anymore, in that it's enjoyable friction: there's a certain expectation I get from picking the next book, encountering something I haven't read for ages and remembering how good it was.


Not if you bring the whole pile around with you or you have a Kindle!

Not that I've ever done such things. Carrying around 4 books would have been absurd. Not me.




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