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humor The Daily Mash 2026-05-22

Tiny Text and No Comment Sections: The Real Reasons Books Are Too Much Work.

Forget plot or character development, the biggest hurdles to reading are small fonts, too many pages, and the sheer audacity of books lacking comment sections. Why engage in slow, thoughtful interpretation when you can instantly condemn fictional villains online and squint at your phone?


THE sun is shining, out-of-office is on, it’s a perfect time to read a good book but you don’t want to. Use one of these excuses to squint at your phone instead. <p><strong>THE sun is shining, out-of-office is on, it’s a perfect time to read a good book but you don’t want to. Use one of these excuses to squint at your phone instead: </strong></p> <p><strong>‘The text’s too small’ </strong></p> <p>After several attempts to use a two-finger gesture to zoom in, you irritably decide that with all it...

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