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14. Discovering a Book at the Bookstore
Before there was Amazon or online bookstores, folks actually used to spend hours of their free time at their local bookstore browsing bookshelves, holding books in their hands, chatting with other book lovers, before they brought them home to read by flipping actual pages (!).

15. We were Addicted to One Less Thing
Just what our highly-addictive and always bored society needed, another vice in their lives! Smoking is addictive, alcohol is addictive, gambling is addictive, television is addictive, and now the Internet is highly addictive, too.