To read more, pick up a book not your phone, no wait…

Hobart, Tasmania, based Australian software engineer Elia Scotto: First of all, you don’t have to make time to read. What you need to do is read every single time you are not doing something else. In today’s world, most people pick up their phones as soon as they get a moment of inactivity. Serious readers pick up their books instead. I’ve been having difficulty finding time to read books recently, for various reasons, and am still working on a way to resolve this. Since removing most of the social media apps from my phone though, I’m not spending so much time looking at it. That’s eventually going to free up some time to read. Ironically though, I’ll probably end up reading e-books, on my phone. I know that isn’t the idea, but it’s better than not reading at all. Besides, I don’t like hauling physical media around. But, if you feel you don’t have enough time to read books, whether print or electronic, try deleting the social media apps from your phone, as a first step. Reading books…