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‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops (www.dazeddigital.com)
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The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I really like being able to Ctrl+F through my book.
But there just seems to be some kind of feel to flipping a page that makes me feel more focussed.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Engagement. I'm a teacher and using all of your senses to look for information makes you remember that said piece of information more.

    It's funny, most studying comes down to that... And motivation, which is also something you have if you prefer books over laptop.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Your book does one single thing, you cannot be distracted by other functions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Plus the tactile feel and responsiveness of a book us unmatched, it's lightweight and portable, you will never run out of battery, and flipping back and forth through pages is much more intuitive that jumping between bookmarks in pdfs and ebooks, the only thing that comes close is e ink readers but those have their own tradeoffs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's only going to affect me if I am reading something particularly boring and don't really want to read it.
    But if that were the case, I wouldn't be reading it in the first place.

    I don't feel the need to rid myself of distractions, because when I am not in the mood to read a book, I don't read it.

    Also, this "distracted by functionality" logic is what parents seem to use to get rid of stuff with a screen.
    I can say for sure, that people being loud in another room is a much bigger distraction.
    If your OS is distracting you, you have installed the wrong one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I think it's the mental work of "I don't have to do anything, it will find it for me" and "I have to find it myself" and I think it puts you in a state mentally and keeps you there. You don't have to disengage because there's something else doing the work.

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