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Your book does one single thing, you cannot be distracted by other functions.
Plus the tactile feel and responsiveness of a book us unmatched, it's lightweight and portable, you will never run out of battery, and flipping back and forth through pages is much more intuitive that jumping between bookmarks in pdfs and ebooks, the only thing that comes close is e ink readers but those have their own tradeoffs
That's only going to affect me if I am reading something particularly boring and don't really want to read it.
But if that were the case, I wouldn't be reading it in the first place.
I don't feel the need to rid myself of distractions, because when I am not in the mood to read a book, I don't read it.
Also, this "distracted by functionality" logic is what parents seem to use to get rid of stuff with a screen.
I can say for sure, that people being loud in another room is a much bigger distraction.
If your OS is distracting you, you have installed the wrong one.
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