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Are you a skimmer or a reader?

In the evening, you'll often find me browsing my Instagram Stories in the evening. Bad habit, I know, but it did often inspire my family for field trips and took us to some interesting places.

And only yesterday I stumbled across his post by Peter van Teeseling (@pvantees) who shared the most interesting long read.

I'm a screenshotter and link forwarder Whatever lands in my mailbox = worth the read. That's my bookmarking strategy.

I read. And I wonder. Should skim reading be the new normal? And are we truly losing our ability and aptitude at in-depth reading? 

This particular paragraph struck me.

Abandon hope all ye who read this on a screen? It's not too late, but it will require some re-educating and awareness raising by all of us.

Ask me, we haven't pursued knowledge this much to get overwhelmed by fake news and irrelevant content.

Meanwhile, I have two unfinished library books waiting on my nightstand, and this one arrived today.

The irony eh?