My Evolution As a Book Reader我的閱讀成長路

I have a friend， culturally minded， who used to share my love of books. Now， for whatever reason， he lost interest in reading. When people gift him with a book， he gives it to me， with one request： “Keep it but tell me the gist1 of it so I can tell my friend I’ve read it.” No one is inclined to read books anymore. Thanks to the Internet， we have been transformed into what they call “hyper readers.” Our attention span for reading has been reduced to how fast it takes to read a “meme”. On social media posts， long paragraphs of text are a turn-off. Our fingers are always swipe-ready， itching2 to click on to something that seems more interesting but short and easy to read.

我有個朋友，熱衷文化，過去和我一樣喜歡讀書。（剩余7500字）