This was my very first ever personal study: red walls, no visible and therefore distracting books, quiet sunshine, no business-suggesting desk, no threatening desktop computer… just a comfy chair, a slim laptop (with lead screening for lap safety) and peace and a fireplace for when things turn chilly.
In fact — sometimes you must come right out and say these things — it's mostly a vague and distracted book, one that provides the sensation of gazing on a dim and foggy day through the wrong end of a telescope.
The apps actually felt distracting from the book, similarly, many well known animation characters were ported to apps – but often cheaply with a lower quality of animation and without much thought about the interactions and games.
Real-world events — the 9/11 attacks, the death of the pope, Hurricane Katrina — can either distract from books or provide a hook.
The answer, of course, is to immerse myself in a good book: something distracting and improving all rolled into one.
This is a disorienting, distracting funhouse of a book: there are long hallucinatory passages, near-abstract images, drawings overlaid on one another until they're nearly incomprehensible.
The bold font is distracting enough – making the book feel too often like a PowerPoint presentation – but it leads to a larger question: what percentage of Palahniuk's Fight Club readership is going to find a Marie Dressler reference funny?
Some studies http://bit.ly/2h0Ue16 have suggested that e-books are distracting and children do not retain an understanding of the story; others http://bit.ly/2goMkOD have not found any effects of book type.
If you pick up something like for example, a picture book that you haven't seen in a long time, you might get distracted by the book.
