Here's why your brain needs you to read every day

[Lilias]

Here’s a simple question—answer it honestly, because your response could boost the amount of pleasure in your daily life, delay dementia, and even help you live longer: How many hours did you spend reading books last week?

https://www.rd.com/culture/benefits-of-reading/

[Inkidu]

I read novels for about an hour every day at least.

[RedRose]

What about kobo, etc? If yes then I definitely read at least one hour a day sometimes much more.

[Lilias]

What about kobo, etc? If yes then I definitely read at least one hour a day sometimes much more.

The material is what matters, not the medium.

[Arianna]

How many hours did you spend reading books last week?

Far too many. Which would not be a problem if I did not favor reading to sleeping. Great article.

[meikle]

I'm reading a lot of relationship maintenance books lately. 

[Oniya]

Actual paper books, at least an hour a day.  Unless the hot water runs out.

[Kinghex]

There's a few points of consideration before changing reading patterns to accomodate this article.

The first is span and focus. It's making the point that reading improves longevity. However, it does this in an increasingly convoluted way. It begins with any type of book for thirty minutes against nothing. This becomes three hours weekly against newspapers and articles. The next change is a total departure. It's children who read with their parents against those who don't. This change is most significant. It defies the thesis of the article by proposing an outcome that's not health. It proposes an abstract parenting outcome for the outcome of a child. The focus of this piece changes.

The focus changes are intentional for an outcome that's not learning. This piece has a whopping sixteen internal links for other sections of that site. They're topic changes to accomodate site reference material to generate views.

'Reading is good' is a premise beyond argument. Referenced links may have positive outcomes. However, someone interested in the empirical results of reading and whether paper, digital, or genre matters would be better off looking at primary sources. (Notably, the detail on the size and rigor of some cited material declines as the article progresses. The information may not be credible enough to develop a substantial case on.)

This article is just candy, and the site is aware of it.

[Tolvo]

Do only paper books count? Cause if like online journals and research papers and articles and things count, probably upwards of 6 hours each day. But I rarely sit down with a paper book, I just find it hard to do so. When I manage to start I can spend a whole day just reading but starting to do so is very hard for me. But I love to learn a lot and while I like fiction I mostly like to read research and study.

[Kinghex]

Do only paper books count? Cause if like online journals and research papers and articles and things count, probably upwards of 6 hours each day. But I rarely sit down with a paper book, I just find it hard to do so. When I manage to start I can spend a whole day just reading but starting to do so is very hard for me. But I love to learn a lot and while I like fiction I mostly like to read research and study.

My two cents has become four cents.

Humbly, I think comprehension and the measures taken to achieve it would matter most if you're concerned with learning. Myself, I get my results through editing digital material. I reduce a text to the most basic form (no extraneous language, abstract wording, etc). This allows me to read without any problems of understanding caused by language, not concepts. It's worth active experimentation. If you feel most confident or interested in research material, and you have methods to organize what you learn, there's little reason to be concerned you'll experience a shortfall compared to traditional readers.

[AmberStarfire]

I don't spend much time reading novels anymore because I prefer to put the time into writing them. I spend a lot of time reading back over what I've written and writing more, then editing what I've written later. I'd be lucky to spend 1 hour a week on average reading books (it's more that I'll go ages between books, then read something). I can easily spend 10 hours a week writing my own, and I'd spend a lot more time than that reading on the net (posts and articles).

[Oniya]

I spend a lot of time reading back over what I've written and writing more, then editing what I've written later.

Wouldn't this still count as reading? 

[AmberStarfire]

Wouldn't this still count as reading?

I think it would, though it's not quite the same as reading someone else's writing either.