Reading books exercises parts of our brains that reading online doesn't. I feel sure of that. What I'm NOT so sure of, is if reading Kindle books work on the same neural paths as a bound paper book does. There aren't any distraction in either books or Kindle... so MAYBE. And maybe not since it has an on/off switch.
Was the story good? Keep you engaged? That's one thing I'm seeing degraded by AI - stories are more simple & formulaic than even nursery rhymes - and have even less intellectual "nutrition". Books take up a lot of space - but there are still probably a couple hundred I won't part with.
I read Steinbeck because I was feeling lonely and maybe I'm a bit starved for stimulation. I've read other books by that author. The writing style makes it seem like there is a familiar person telling a story. It was engaging enough to me that I wanted to keep reading it. I read the summary of it first online and the plot didn't sound interesting to me with the biblical references and whatnot but actually I did like the book. I would recommend it yes. I had originally picked up for Whom the Bell Tolls read about 100 pages in and decided I didn't want to waste my time going further on that one as it felt bland to me. Just random books from free book shelves.
I don't own a kindle never tried one. This book had that rough paper edge so it was kind of uneven and yeah there is some kind of tactile thing about it which is nice. I don't remember what the book smells like I don't think I sniffed it. A book I guess is more like an artifact.. and this one had a sticker of someone's name and address in it. It's possible the person is deceased who originally owned it.
I wanted to mark the book up but I didn't it's too nice and I don't have a highlighter. There are strange points in the book that even remind me a bit of aspects of narcissism. There are two male characters that insist on projecting an image of how they want to see a person onto someone which isn't true and it ends kinda badly for them.
Anyhow yes it's a good book if someone reads the layers and reflects on it.
Yeah the AI and the arts is freaky, AI visual art, AI music, AI literature.
Was watching a video of an art lecture and a person in the video was pointing to a book they had. It has it's use for demonstration reasons. I was thinking also how I am seeing an image of an image of an image of someone's mind from a bygone time. People also complain about music digital files being compressed. There are people who analyze popular music and they say the compositions are less complex and people are using fewer chords.
It could be partially that people are not taking the time to make things well. And people are not taking the time to notice things are not made well. It's the fast food version of art I guess.
