My living room is filled with hundreds of books I’ve collected over more than four decades. I’ve yet to succumb to Kindle. Most of my books are old friends with fond memories, and sometimes I revisit my favorites.

However, I’ll admit there is a percentage I never quite got around to finishing. They all look great in the bookstore, but in my cozy chair next to the lamp, They Do not always hold my interest. Rather than torturing myself with a tedious reading experience, I move on.

Los Angeles Times columnist Mike Hiltzik tells of a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison mathematics teacher of reading habits through Kindle.

professor Jordan Ellenberg calls it “the non-summer read, the book That You pick up, all full of ambition, at the beginning of June and put away, the bookmark now and forever halfway through Chapter 1, on Labor Day “

Kindle can tell When You stop reading, unless you turn off the function.

Hiltzik reports que Thomas Piketty’s” Capital in the Twenty-First Century “is the next champion of unread books. The average reader makes it through 2.8 percent of book.

Check out Hiltzik’s column at DesertSun.com / opinion.

It’s a good read.

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