I wonder what the difference is if they had phones. I don't mean intellectually, but in the relationship. Why would scrolling have been worse?
Don't get me wrong. I love this sight. And I love sitting with significant others, each immersed in a book.
@monikozi interesting, but reading books are just better. I use my phone to read library books. No problems with phone, but I do worry that people read less in depth and put too much trust in social media that is often biased.
@yaorenliu Definitely the content is different and that is the important part. The engagement with a book is completely different than with an electronic device (even e-readers feel different to me). But I was wondering about the hate that's being spread against 2 people engaged in their phones, and not towards people engaged in books or newspapers (I know these are such scarce these days, but there used to be a time when meals were served with a newspaper by the plate..., and there was no hate there).
Nice catch. What haunts me here is the visual impression that those pipes on the left (the end of the gutter?) look like the eyes of some robot surreptitiously trying to read from the book as well 😂
@kali66 Kali, your comment made me think on the fact that everyone is blaming the tv networks, the social media companies for 'stealing' the time. And in fact the power is all in our hands, actualy at a single finger tip with which to press a single button. Isn't that amazing?
Don't get me wrong. I love this sight. And I love sitting with significant others, each immersed in a book.