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Literally how do you sit still for 4 hours
You don't have to watch it in one sitting you know
If it takes a second sitting, I will forget about it
How do you read books?
I can get way more words per minute in with a book. In a video, I constantly wish theyd just get to the next point faster, but if I watch 2x, then I can't understand them. My brain tunes out half the shit they say, and if I have to rewind, it's a pain.
With a book, I can just skip a bit. Or go bavk easily and read a bit if what I skipped seemed truly important. A bookmark gives me a tangible, physical reminder of where I left off, and a book on the coffee table is a constant reminder of that thing I was in the middle of. Videos get thrown in a huge pile of tabs and eventually Youtube forgets where I was, making it more aggravating.
If I can't finish it in one sitting, I find it hard to come back later. I don't feel that way about books.
95% of longform video essays should just be articles.
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Typically I don't. When I watch ridiculously long Youtube videos I have them playing in the background while I do other things, most of them aren't very reliant on the visual aspect of the medium and work perfectly fine as long podcasts with more structure. It's nice to not have to come back to my laptop and select a new video to listen to every 10 minutes.
I don't have many chores that take 4 hours. Long podcasts at least keep themselves bookmarked better than YouTube if I come back to them. But yeah, generally, a long YT video works as a podcast