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In a world teeming with virtual reality, visual stimulation, new technologies, and instant gratification, reading words in black and white on a page can seem archaic and even unnecessary.
I receive a great sense of gratification reading posts from attorneys in rural areas or hostile states who express their appreciation for their ability to use this forum to discuss issues with others and to counter their sense of loneliness.
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I get instant gratification from reading a good haiku.
Today, ebooks offer instant sampling, immediate gratification and affordable reading pleasure.
But my gratification ended as soon as I had finished reading the article.
Because teens gravitate to audio and visual stimulation more than reading, social media enables them instant gratification and connection without the pain of reading paragraphs of information.
One set of theories is related to the 'ego's perception' and includes two main factors: gratification, suggesting that people read and share news to satisfy their desires such as informativeness and entertainment [12] and selective exposure, suggesting that people like to read information in agreement with their views and avoid conflicting information [13].
E-books are great for instant gratification — you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
Instant-gratification technology has, for many students, replaced the task -- and the thrill -- of reading.
The category of reading "for fun" is itself a little depressing, since it divides reading into duty (for school) and gratification (sitting on a beach towel), as if the two were necessarily opposed.
The fallacy that the pleasures offered by reading must necessarily be pleasures to which a self-defeating sense of shame is attached offers a very impoverished definition of gratification, whatever book we choose to pull from the shelf.
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