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ThomasMaxwell2501 t1_jdd5tfy wrote

Reply to comment by lolbojack in Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading by drak0bsidian

And that is why kids are falling out of love for reading. Gotta pay for it with money they don’t have. And for what? For words on a page that you have to actively read and form images in your head, when you can just watch videos on your phone that immediately deliver the same images but at a quicker pace?

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JonDowd762 t1_jde6ht9 wrote

There's more free news content than ever before. Kids aren't falling out of love with reading because of a few paywalls. They aren't falling out of love with Marvel movies due to the Disney+ paywall either. They still enjoy legos, ice cream and video games despite those also costing money.

I get it, it's annoying to run into a paywall. But you can't blame them for every problem in the world.

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AlunWeaver t1_jdeh995 wrote

Yeah, this one got a laugh out of me. Like some teenager's literary curiosity is killed for life, all because they couldn't read The Atlantic for free.

Redditors love bitching about paywalls because they are the exact people discussed in this article: they don't value quality writing or journalism, so the idea of paying for it is completely absurd to them.

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embe_3 t1_jdo1l3o wrote

Can you pay for a single article?

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SecretAccomplished25 t1_je1gi65 wrote

Not to mention the ability to literally imagine doesn’t come as easily as one may think, and many in fact need to be taught how to do it! Especially the case now, as there’s no need to imagine- we’re inundated with easy to access visual stimuli.

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ThomasMaxwell2501 t1_je4lh5x wrote

If one were to be interested in developing the skill, what would one have to do as an “exercise” to develop it?

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the-eyes-on-you t1_jdf4e2f wrote

My teen calls it "staring at dead trees and hallucinating". He can't visualize books in his head though. I'm the opposite, I've always loved reading though now I listen to audiobooks more because I can consume them at work.

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