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I've never heard of someone suffering from reading addiction.
Nor have I, but in the back of my mind I thought that reading hasn't always been well thought of. Reading about reading on Wikipedia was more interesting than I expected.
You're *supposed* to read out loud.
In his Confessions, Saint Augustine remarks on Saint Ambrose's unusual habit of reading silently in the 4th century AD.
Readers are just *sheep*!
Some thinkers of [17th/18th Ccentury] believed that construction, or the creation of writing and producing a product, was a sign of initiative and active participation in society - and viewed consumption (reading) as simply taking in what constructors made.
Reading is *immoral*!
In 18th-century Europe, the then new practice of reading alone in bed was, for a time, considered dangerous and immoral. [snip] Some modern critics, however, speculate that these concerns were based on the fear that readers - especially women - could escape familial and communal obligations and transgress moral boundaries through the private fantasy worlds in books.
Confession time: occasionally, I read aloud in bed. Baaaa!
I implemented the finger protocol in Jemi, my Gemini client. I can now follow finger links, but they're not so easy to find. So here are some.
Finger others:
I also implemented inline links in Jemi. If there's a URL or a hashtag, it now shows as a link.
I felt a little naughty doing this. Maybe I'm breaking the spirit of gemtext?! Or maybe I'm just making rendering decisions. It's only really me that's seeing the links.
I said in the faq that I couldn't put links in your content...
...well, now I can put them there, but only when I'm looking at it.
My crawler is still ignoring new posts, so it's down until I fix that. I fixed other things today (see above).