Board games have become hugely popular with fantastic new games coming out all the time why because each of these things requires intentionality listening to an album on vinyl is an event
srccarefully select what you want to listen to place the record on the turntable make sure there's no fuzz on the disc or needle start up the player line up your needle and lower it onto the vinyl halfway through or even sooner on double LPS you have to repeat the process
it's a ritual then of course you have to take care of your collection records have a tendency to warp in the heat or if they're stored improperly but for all the hundreds of thousands of people with growing record collections it doesn't matter that's part.
it's not just something you mindlessly put on while you scroll through Twitter it's more of an experience and audio files will tell you that you'll get better sound out of a good vinyl setup than anything you'll hear
on Spotify or highly compressed mp3 files but surely this is just nostalgia right people who grew up with these technologies are pining for the good old days of their favorite artists or the smell of dusty old books perhaps
surprisingly that's not the case a large portion of the people adopting analog hobbies never had a record player growing up they had never shot film before they grew up never having experienced dial-up internet
it's not nostalgia it's a conscious rejection of the parasitic relationship with modern technology cell phones and social media aren't all bad but they can take a real toll on your mental state picking up a paper book
and experiencing reading something without a backlight is a novel experience if you'll excuse the pun think about it a physical book engages almost all your senses the feel of the pages between your fingers
the smell of the paper and glue the look of the cover and the text against the paper the rustle of dry pages even the taste of inky paper if you lick your fingers to turn the page and it's more than that no one will notice
or talk to you if you're reading an e-book on the train but if someone sees their favorite author on the spine of the physical book you're reading it could spark conversation it's a way to make friends acquaintances
even form new relationships just by doing something as simple as carrying a book around it can be an interpersonal experience as well as a private one enjoyed at home the same goes
for cameras and photography we all have pretty capable cameras built into our phones they're incredibly convenient but when you can take a picture of anything anywhere at any time.