Nah.

A lot of people are realising that all they do is look at their phones and have started to actively seek out other things to do. It's a good step and I strongly recommend it. Even if you're not replacing phone use with something productive, just disconnecting is clearly helping people. Buy a DVD player and hit up thrift stores for some movies or TV box sets, read a childhood favourite book, play a video game that isnt connected to the internet. Its great.

I read The Vegetarian recently. And some Mao.

I used to love reading when I was younger; can't mentally focus any more and I get distracted very easily; have to read the same sentence multiple times to grasp it. I miss reading; so many good novels. The written form will always be the superior way to convey a story.

I hope it's not a fad because books are nice. I like the smell and the fact that they don't blast blue light in my little ol' eyeballs.

I've been reading The Scar by China Miéville lately. Good stuff.

Is it some performative fad?

I actually have been reading more physical books related to socialism openly on the bus. It’s enjoyable foremost, but I like to imagine it’s normalizing the topic in some tiny way too if others see it. But mostly I’m sure no one notices XD

Maybe new year resolutions?

There are loads of books I want to read but my local library is awful. They have barely anything, what little they do have is mostly slop like celebrities' autobiographies. If you want something specific and it's at another library you have to pay an inter-library loan charge of £7! For that price you could almost just buy a new book, if I had any money. My amazon wishlist is getting to an insane length.

you can't really do anything else on a bus.