Text too small, and other legitimate reasons to give up on a book and go on 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: 

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VR headsets, and other technologies you got bored of after 20 minutes

ONCE it was the next big thing, now you can’t even Freecycle it. Were you one of the visionaries who bought a piece of the future that turned out to be a dusty piece of crap? 

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