How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Published 2019 · 256 pages · 70,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy to read?
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy scores 53 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Art-critical and ecological vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Essayistic sentences of moderate length.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Attention treated as a philosophical rather than practical problem.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate; it lingers rather than accumulates.
How How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is regarded
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy holds a literary regard score of 51 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.