Lately I've been seeing many more people reading books in public.
Yesterday, 5 books on one bus.
Newspapers and magazines stay losing. Zero zero.
EBook readers occasional.
Is it some performative fad?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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I think its a mix of several things. Mostly that you spend an hour on the internet and feel worse afterwards. The internet used to be something you looked forward to using
Yeah, there's a reason Hexbear is basically 90% of my internet usage these days, this is the only place I know that feels like the "old internet"
I don't think it's like the old internet. It's just a good part of the new internet. There was never anyplace like this before.
That's true. There's parts of it that remind me a lot of old forums I used to be a part of, but there's a lot of new stuff that didn't exist back then as well.