Marcus Waverly Audiobooks

The Art of the Digital Detox: putting the phone down, in a little over an hour

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Marcus Waverly?

Filing a work under both personal development and technology is a neat description of the digital detox as a subject. The Art of the Digital Detox belongs to the shelf that studies habits and to the shelf that studies the devices designing them, and Marcus Waverly evidently wants both.

The word art in that title is the interesting choice. It suggests something practised and refined rather than a purge to be endured, which is a considerably more sustainable framing than the abstinence language this topic usually reaches for.

What our catalogue can attest to ends there, and we will not embroider it.

Marcus Waverly in audiobooks

Elizabeth Stockton narrates, and a little over an hour keeps the whole thing inside a single sitting. There is a pleasing logic to that: a book asking for your attention back has no business demanding a fortnight of it.

It has arrived too recently to have gathered listener verdicts, so the score column stays empty for now and the sample is the honest way in. Consider it if your relationship with the phone has become the sort of thing you notice at eleven at night, and if you want the case made briskly rather than sermonised.

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