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Superverslavend by Adam Alter
2.0

Utterly disappointing. Yes, this is an interesting book about all kinds of addictions. But it presents itself as a book about smartphone addiction with tips and tricks to help you deal with it, and it does not live up to that self-help expectation.

I had some good tips, for instance the app tracking app, which is really confronting about how many minutes you spend on what apps and how often you open them. But everything I learned from this book could have been summarized in an article for a magazine. And that is not what I read a book for.

Not 1* because I read some interesting examples and learned a few interesting things, but it was completely not what I expected it to be. Bummer.