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John Alsdorf's avatar

I love reading books. I’ll be 84 years old by the end of this month, was blessed to grow up in an era without even a TV in our home till my college years. But I gravitated toward computers, learning to program on a main-frame before the first PC, got a PC at the first opportunity, and have been basically addicted ever since. Still read books (50% on kindle) in good numbers.

I’ve been realizing lately that the biggest distraction from reading books these days is — SUBSTACK. It’s people, often friends or people who become virtual friends….people like YOU, my friend…who fill my morning inbox with tempting topics like “What does a post-literate culture look like?”

This is the paradox. Quite seriously, my kindle copy of “You are not your own” is showing something like 33% complete, while your Substack (and oh so many others) do get read, hearted, commented on!

What’s a serious reader to do?!

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Laura T's avatar

Thank you for your insights. I’ll be honest. This one was a “hard read” only bevause it is so, so woefully true. The phones :(. Thank you for the truth that “God will, of course, preserve His church.”

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