思考与写作theparisreview.org
在持续分心的时代阅读
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
2019 — 2021，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
《巴黎评论》的这篇文章探讨了在持续分心的互联网时代，深度阅读为何变得困难。文章围绕评论家 Birkerts 的观点展开，讨论书籍能否以其对专注与沉浸的承诺，把读者从点赞和分享的即时满足中拉回来。
为什么经久不衰：注意力涣散是跨越多年的持久困境，这篇文章在 2019 和 2021 两次登上 HN 首页，说明它触及的焦虑至今仍未过时。
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读书的价值不在于获取信息，而在于提供深度思考的空间
我越来越热爱读书，不仅因为喜欢学习，更因为书创造了独自与一个想法相处的时间和空间。商业书几页就能概括，但书本身是一种强化理念的练习——你得花上十小时去思考并付诸行动，才能真正内化一个观点。另外讽刺的是，求知有时也会成为拖延项目的借口。
everythingswan查看英文原文
I've come to love books intensely. Not only because I enjoy learning--before I read books, I found blogs to be great educators. I love books because they create time and space to be alone with a thought. It gives me time to consider things that I normally have no space for. I remember Seth Godin saying once that every business book can be summarized in just a few pages but the book itself is a story. I think it goes beyond just that idea and is The Exercise in reinforcing ideas. Yes, you don't need to spend 10 hours to memorize an idea: _move fast and break things._ Yea, I get it. But what does that actually mean? How do you actually implement that philosophy? How do you internalize it? How do you navigate situations where you will revert back to your old habit or philosophy? I think you have to spend 10 hours thinking about it and then taking actionable steps to implement it in order to make it useful. Teaching and writing are similar exercises that I have found helpful as a learning tool. I only just stumbled upon why I like to read. It is likely very personal. But I have found that removing the distractions and habit of "horizontal reading" makes me happier. I'm looking forward to reading the referenced book by Birkerts. (Aside: At times, I have found reading to be an excuse for not getting things done on my projects. _I just need to know more about x, y, and z before I start_. Ironically, the quest for knowledge can be distracting itself.)
讽刺的是，这篇文章所在的网站本身就是分心阅读的典型例子
我读这篇文章时，顶部和两侧开始出现动态广告，十秒后浮动条遮住正文，接着是弹窗，然后是分享按钮挡住文字——于是我离开了。太少网站为真正想读内容的人提供良好体验，所以我们会在 HN 上看到《在线阅读：持续分心时代》这样的文章。
CharlesMerriam2查看英文原文
As I read this story, some moving advertisements start along the top and sides. After ten seconds, a floating bar covers the text. After a few more, a modal dialog. Then the 'share me now' buttons, obscuring the text. Then I leave. Too few websites offer an experience for someone to read the content, and so we will see "Reading Online Content in the Age of Constant Distraction" in HackerNews.
批评这类'哀悼深度阅读'的文章是陈词滥调式的自我表达
这条评论针对文章的语气：文化精英中流行一种挽歌式的原始主义，不断唤起某种无形的'失落感'，像好莱坞的情感操纵一样廉价且陈旧。这类文章名为谈阅读，实为作者的自传式自我表达，且毫无新意、完全安全。希望看到更多拯救我们脱离互联网的工具和方法，少一些一边哀叹一边索取注意力的文章。
blueyes查看英文原文
A lot of the comments in this thread confirm that a) the Internet and social media are problems that distract us, and b) there are ways to fight the addictive behaviors they encourage. They can be made succinctly. (I agree with both points, and admire those who attempt to regain control of their attention.) This comment is about the tone of the post in The Paris Review. There's a kind of elegiac primitivism circulating among the cultural elite that rubs me wrong, both in Birkerts and the contemporary reviewer. The constant evocation of "loss" associated with some intangible trauma seems like a cheap trick to hack our empathy. By cheap trick, I mean, "a trick that a lot of people use, which like Hollywood's emotional manipulations, is getting old." One hallmark of this genre is that an essay that seems like it's about one thing ("reading in an age of distraction"), is really about the author's "I", a foray into autobiography. Another hallmark is that it says nothing new. It is completely safe, a piece of writing well within the received wisdom. Readers of The Paris Review would be hard pressed to object to any substantial point the writer made, except, maybe, that those points did not need making to that audience. I hope that we get more people working on tools and methods that save us from the Internet, and fewer posts asking for our attention while they lament it.
现代书籍更难读进去，是因为键盘写作降低了思考密度
我用屏幕阅读器读书，以能听懂的最快语速来衡量文本难度：现代作品多在 700+ 词/分钟，二战前的作品在 400-600，数学书在 100-300。问题不是我们更容易分心，而是现代书在根本上信息密度更低、更无聊——我归咎于键盘这种让你写得比想得还快的中介。
6b17a51f-17a7查看英文原文
I use a screen reader for the majority of my reading so I have a literal measuring stick on how difficult to understand something is by how fast I can listen to it and still understand it. My usual range is between 100 and 1000 wpm. The majority of modern writing is in the 700+wpm range. The majority of pre-wwii writing is in the 400-600wpm range. Technical books, like say a math book, are in the 100-300wpm range and I need to listen to them multiple times and it doesn't escape my notice that the parts which slow me down the most are the math heavy ones. It's not that we get more easily distracted when reading today it's that our books contain less information in some fundamental way and are more boring than older books. I blame the fact that the majority of them are written with a keyboard. A medium that lets you write faster than you can think with obvious results. I don't know what modern book would have it's first few drafts be hand written but I would bet any such book would be vastly more interesting to read by the simple fact that the person who wrote it had at least five times as long to think about what they were writing than someone who used a keyboard or type writer. For interest the article was understandable at 800wpm and this post at 600wpm.
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