How many books have you read on your phone in the last month? Or did you instead open twitter/hackernews/tiktok?
I don't have any social media apps on my phone anymore except "Hack" for HN... as you imply, too much temptation to distraction. I haven't missed them at all.
This doesn't matter. What matters to me is I experienced the stories conveyed by the words.
I bet reading a hardback lights up different parts of the brain compared to e-book readers, but that difference does not to me matter either.
Experiencing the story through someone else reading the words to you is different to reading though. I'm not sure why people are so weirdly defensive about this.
E-ink devices place no demand on fine-motor skills the way turning a page does. I'll stand by by bet.
I'm not defensive about the fact that the experience of reading vs listening are different - I challenge the (often implicit) insinuation that one is inherently superior to the other in all circumstances. I do both and know the trade-offs for each. My comment was inspired by the old, but very similar "real books vs kindles" debate.