Why Is It Worth The Last Time To Read A Book?

In the beginning of my freshman year in high school, I used to read a lot of books. I used to read from romantic novels to long articles about conspiracies that had to do with Area 51 and extraterrestrial life. I loved the idea that I could gain so much knowledge from articles and books if I took some of my time to read it. I would read books within a week because that is how captivating and enjoyable the books were to me. However, by the end of my senior year, I had realized that I had spent most of time on my computer rather than taking my free days, like my Sunday’s afternoons, in the living room taking time to read and write. My computer became an easier way to access information that replaced my pencils and books. The computer was a piece of technology that came with consequences that did not improve …show more content…
However, when it came to reading now, he explained how he could barely get through any of the readings without losing concentration after the third page and finding something else to do (Graff 314). As I previously mentioned, Carr believed that technology did affect our way of communicating and getting information. The internet is able to provide information to us in such a short amount of time that our brains have been shaped to act the same way when we want to get information. Technology is a more “fun”, easier and a less complicated way to get information faster. I can get distracted from reading or writing an essay due to the fact that I know I can get information faster through a computer or any other device. We just cannot read books anymore because our brains demand a faster way to intake information or else we get distracted and that clearly shows how our slow attention span is developing throughout this age at technology. Not only modern devices like our laptops or our phones affect the way we communicate through reading, but they also affect our