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I resonate with the author preferring to read an e-reader than a book when their mind is more amped up. Why is it easier to read from a mutable screen than paper when I'm frazzled?

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Screens wind you up, pages wind you down. I've ran this experiment on myself plenty of times. If I'm scrolling on the internet and reading articles there, I can be up almost indefinitely without getting tired. The mind keeps going with the screen. If I sit in the exact same chair at the exact same time of day with the exact same amount of rest the day before, and get into a book, I might last 13 pages before I nod off.

If you like to read to help get tired for bed, I would think a book is the best method. Certainly works that way for me. I can't even read in the middle of the day because it makes me too drowsy and sometimes knocks me out entirely, then I lose like two hours before I awake from that unintentional nap.

In my case, because the typography (except for some very obnoxious excceptions) is always the same. Same font, same font size, same margins, just different text. A book cannot distract me anymore through mediocre or awesome typography -- the text is on its own.

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