Anonymous asked: With all the hype surrounding books moving from printed to digital platforms, is ANYBODY at all thinking about the impact it's going to have on our poor eyeballs? As if we needed more reasons to stare at screens for hours!
Our poor eyeballs. They work so hard and get so little credit. So, let’s take a moment to think of our eyeballs. I’m going to close mine to give myself an ocular moment of silence.
Now, onward. I think we may be at a saturation point with how much of our time our eyes are on screens. Any new technologies will just be a new screen stealing time from a old screen.
And, if you’re really worried about it, you could always buy a reader with e-ink like a Kindle. Hopefully in the future we’ll either improve the quality of e-ink screens or hybridize them with LED screens. Maybe. But, who knows? I know diddly about the technology behind these screens.
